In the organizer's words:

Moderator: Judith Heitkamp

In October 1768, Henriette Genet, later Campan, took up an office that would shape her life: she became chambermaid to Marie Antoinette, daughter of Empress Maria Theresa and Queen of France (1755-1793). What we know today about the dazzling and tragic queen, we know from Henriette Campan, who in her old age provided information about important affairs and fatal misadventures - and not least about a lost era. The Munich author Hans Pleschinski is one of the best experts on the Ancien Régime. Following the correspondence between Voltaire and Frederick the Great, the letters of Madame Pompadour and the notes of the Duke of Croÿ, he has now published the memoirs of Henriette Campan and translated them into an elegant, floating German. The result is a unique portrait of her life and epoch and at the same time a great pleasure to read (C.H.Beck).

Organizer: Stiftung Literaturhaus

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ADMISSION: EURO 16.- / 10.-