Achim Bogdahn: Unter den Wolken

In the organizer's words:

Reading with Achim Bogdahn:

Under the clouds. My journey through Germany to the highest mountains in all 16 federal states

"After this book, you know more about Germany, about yourself and you just want one thing: go!" Thees Uhlmann

Bavaria has the Zugspitze, Hesse the Wasserkuppe, but does Hamburg have a highest mountain? Yes, the Hasselbrack in the Harburg mountains, 116.2 meters high. And how high is the highest peak in Bremen? 32.5 meters - the elevation in Friedehorstpark. Achim Bogdahn has set off on a journey through Germany and climbed the highest mountains in all 16 federal states.

To make sure he didn't hike alone, he invited well-known people from the respective regions to accompany him. These hikes have resulted in a book, a book about Germany, about encounters and conversations, about people and about life - with many detours, anecdotes and digressions.

- Benno "Brocken-Benno" Schmidt (Saxony-Anhalt)
- Manuel Andrack (Saarland)
- Henning Scherf (Bremen)
- Edgar Reitz (Rhineland-Palatinate)
- Dennis Gastmann (Hamburg)
- Rocko Schamoni (Schleswig-Holstein)
- Kathi Wilhelm (Thuringia)
- Hahner-Twins (Hesse)
- Margot Käßmann (Lower Saxony)
- Anke Domscheit-Berg (Brandenburg)
- Hans-Joachim Watzke (NRW)
- Judith Holofernes (Berlin)
- Mehmet Scholl (Baden-Württemberg)
- Lars Riedel & Jens Weißflog (Saxony)
- Devid Striesow (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
- Felix Neureuther (Bavaria)

Achim Bogdahn was born in Erlangen in 1965, grew up in Munich and works as a radio presenter for Bayerischer Rundfunk/Bayern 2. He studied Protestant theology in Munich, Berlin and Glasgow, was the singer in the band Isar 12 (published by Trikont) and is an ardent fan of TSV 1860 Munich (which is why his passport officially bears the stage name "Sechzig"). He has worked as an actor ("Trautmann"), he is a certified soccer referee, he speaks a little Danish and he loves to travel by train. "Under the Clouds" is his debut.