Europa erlesen: Charlotte van den Broeck mit „Wagnisse“

In the organizer's words:

The bestseller about boldness and failure, about life and art: a sinfully expensive indoor swimming pool sinks into the boggy ground. Four toilets are planned - for 2,400 soldiers. 13 architects fail with their building. All 13 perish and some even commit suicide because they cannot bear the failure. The award-winning poet Charlotte Van den Broeck visits these 13 buildings, some contemporary, some centuries old (including the Vienna State Opera). She researches the lives and work of the architects and the financial and socio-historical circumstances under which the projects were created. During her travels, she meets everyday and bizarre people and combines what she sees with her own experiences.

Charlotte Van den Broeck was born in 1991 in Turnhout (Belgium) and studied literature and linguistics, English and German. She is a slammer and editor of a literary magazine. In 2016, she opened the Frankfurt Book Fair together with Arnon Grünberg.

After the reading, she will talk to Andreas Rossmann about the role of architecture in public spaces. Andreas Rossmann was the cultural correspondent for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in North Rhine-Westphalia for 31 years.

Moderator: Michael Serrer (Literaturbüros NRW)

"Europa erlesen" in Berlin is a series of events organized by the Representation of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia to the Federal Government and the Literaturbüro NRW.

Price information:

Registration required at: veranstaltungen@lv-bund.nrw.de