Moderation: Kathrin Dittmer

"He will become what he is," was written on his graduation certificate. And it was true! Harry Rowohlt became everything he always was and wanted to be: a comic linguistic artist and a virtuoso master of digression, a brilliant translator of the untranslatable and a reader with a thousand voices.

His life turned out quite differently than he had planned, because he did not want to become what he was meant to be - his father's successor as publisher - and for years he desperately tried to escape Rowohlt Verlag. This well-researched biography tells the story of how Harry Rowohlt managed to find a kind of soul connection with Pu the Bear.

After several years as a freelance presenter and author,Alexander Solloch has been a permanent literary editor at NDR since 2014. He was nominated for the German Radio Prize in 2011 and 2019.

Kathrin Dittmer is the director of the Literaturhaus Hannover. She is a jury member of LiteraTour Nord and the Hölty Prize for Poetry.