Lesung „Der längste Schlaf“ Ein Abend mit Bestsellerautorin Melanie Raabe

In the organizer's words:

About sleep and insomnia, about dreams and the ghosts of the past.

What a pleasure: Melanie Raabe will be a guest in the scheune as part of our buchladen series and talk to host Ulrich Noller about her new novel. In "The Longest Sleep", she talks about sleep and insomnia, dreams and the ghosts of the past, secrets and the loss of loved ones, about pausing and moving on.

This is what her book is about: almost everything in the life of young scientist Mara Lux revolves around sleep. The Londoner-by-choice is a leading researcher in this field, but at the same time she herself has suffered from tormenting insomnia for many years. She fears her dreams, which sometimes seem to inexplicably spill over into reality. Mara, who is not only rational through and through, but also likes to have everything under control, finds this very difficult.

She is hardly ever in Germany, her parents died young, so Mara is not a little surprised when she receives a message from a notary in Frankfurt one day: Someone wants to bequeath her a large, old manor house in the German provinces, anonymously. Mara believes it is a case of mistaken identity - and yet, having become curious, she travels to the small town, which is foreign to her, to take a look. She is astonished to discover that she is strangely connected to this place through her dreams.

The new novel will be published on September 18, 2024. The reading will take place on November 25 at 7:30 pm in the Bürgerzenturm Nippes Altenberger Hof. Admission costs €20. Tickets are available online and in the bookshop.