Schauspieler Olaf Hais liest Erich Kästner - "Meine Mutter zu Lande und zu Wasser"

In the organizer's words:

Poems and letters that reveal Kästner's critical understanding of the times, which is still valid today, as well as his very specific and close relationship with his mother. As always, satire and emotion are humorously interwoven in the work of our great Dresden native.

"My mother bet everything on one card - and that card was me." The story of Erich Kästner and his mother is a special one: "My mother was my best friend," he said of her. And she knew: "My son doesn't keep anything from me." Little Erich was indeed his mother's elixir of life and guardian angel. Even in later years, he tried to be both to her - and yet he was still very careful to detach himself from her a little. His mother was his friend, travel companion, advisor in matters of love and fashion, the first critical reader of his manuscripts and - unimaginable today - the tireless caretaker of his laundry, even when Kästner had long been living in Berlin. It was an intimate relationship on both sides, not always easy, but always characterized by love.

The great Kästner expert Sylvia List has collected the most beautiful poems, stories and letters that Erich Kästner dedicated to his mother - and to all other mothers. This book is not only a highly entertaining and moving story of mother and son in words, rhyme and pictures - it is also an extremely personal testimony to the 1920s and the post-war period.

After studying acting at the "Konrad Wolf" Film Academy in Potsdam-Babelsberg, Olaf Hais first went to the Landesbühnen Sachsen, where he played Winnetou at the Felsenbühne Rathen for 11 years. As a freelance actor, he performed at many theaters in Saxony, including the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, and worked as a drama lecturer at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theater in Leipzig. He has appeared in "Tatort", "Soko Leipzig", "Polizeiruf 110" and in cinema films, and has worked as a lecturer in body language and rhetoric for the Saxon Ministry of Education, among others. During his engagement at the Deutsch-Sorbisches Volkstheater Bautzen, he began directing very successfully.

Enjoy home-baked cakes and a cup of coffee from 14:30 and visit our current exhibition of works by Gundula Schmidt.

Free admission - hat money for the artist is requested. This is an event of the Bürgerzentrum Waldschänke Hellerau e.V.

Price information:

Free admission - hat money for the artist is requested.