Auguste ("Gussie") Adenauer was the second wife of Konrad Adenauer, the Chancellor of the young Federal Republic of Germany.

In his novel "Gussie", Christoph Wortberg has written a literary homage to this remarkable and indomitable woman.

Told with literary mastery, it gives us a glimpse into the eventful and moving, tragic - and yet always cheerful - life of Gussie Adenauer.

He stages and reads from his novel "Gussie".

The cello duo "Violoncello à deux" (Uta Schlichtig and Birgit Heinemann) condenses the episodes with sensitively selected music by Viotti, Popper, Kosma and Paganini (Gussie was a good violinist) through to hits of the time (e.g. Martha Eggert "Schön wie der junge Frühling"), which play a central role in the novel.

"Gussie" promises the experience of a very special evening.

The Blücherstraße bookshop will be hosting a book table on this evening and you will have the opportunity to have the books you have bought signed by the author after the event.

Admission 19.00 hrs I Start 20.00 hrs