In the organizer's words:

When Katharina Thalbach reads, literature becomes cinema in the mind: with her unmistakable voice, her fine sense of timing and her love of characters, she brings Georgette Heyer's novel "The Unruly Widow" to life - her declared favorite author from the world of English light fiction.

The fact that this reading is taking place on March 8, International Women's Day, is anything but a coincidence: Georgette Heyer tells of clever, headstrong heroines who make their way in a male-dominated society - and Katharina Thalbach gives these female characters a haunting, contemporary voice. A literary experience about female self-determination, wit and resistance.