In the organizer's words:

The largely unknown novel by Henri-Pierre Roché "Jules et Jim" (1953) is based on the author's relationship with Helen Hessel, the wife of his best friend and writer Franz Hessel. The famous film adaptation of François Truffaut's novel takes a playful look at the Parisian and Schwabing bohemian era before the First World War and the 1920s in Paris and Berlin between the world wars. The stories of Franz Hessel ("Jules") can also be described as "cheerful serenity". As an editor at Rowohlt-Verlag, he discovered Mascha Kaléko, among others, who wrote a touching poem about him in 1956. His wife Helen ("Kathe") wrote articles about fashion for German newspapers in Paris. They emigrated to France, Franz Hessel died in Sanary-sur-Mer in 1941, Helen Hessel lived to see the premiere of the film (1962). With short, exciting and humorous texts from the novel, the screenplay and essays by Helen and Franz Hessel, Hamburg author Wolfgang Bremer paints an entertaining picture of the period from 1900 to 1940.

As part of arabesques - Franco-German Cultural Festival

Price information:

Free admission, donations are requested. Please register at info@arabesques-hamburg.de