Spitzenreiterinnen-Lesung mit Jovana Reisinger und Friends!

In the organizer's words:

Jovana Reisinger & Friends at the Colosseum! On the occasion of the publication of "Spitzenreiterinnen" by Ullstein Verlag, the author invites you to a premiere reading - to mark the occasion, she will also be bringing actors Eva Bay and Benjamin Radjaipour on stage. Presenter and actor Manuel Mairhofer will host the evening.

Lisa can't have children, is abandoned, gets angry. Laura is eagerly awaiting her wedding, the highlight of every woman's life. Barbara is lost since she became a widow, a little dog helps. Verena inherits a luxury villa with a view of the lake and moves up the ladder. Jolie is made redundant and becomes pregnant. Petra finds love and moves house. Tina is terrified and makes a decision.

"A wide-awake novel that also deals intelligently with the topic of growing older as a woman." Katja Kullmann in an interview in the Süddeutsche Zeitung about Spitzenreiterinnen

Jovana Reisinger, born in Munich in 1989, is a writer, filmmaker and artist. In 2020-2022 she wrote the menstruation column Bleeding Love for Vogue Germany, in 2023-2025 the singles column for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Her novels Still Halten and Spitzenreiterinnen have been nominated for numerous awards. Most recently, the essay novel Pleasure (2024) was published.

Eva Bay was born in Hamburg in 1983. She gained her first stage experience at the Berlin Volksbühne in the youth theater group P14. She studied acting at the Konrad-Wolf University of Film and Television in Potsdam. During her studies, she already had numerous jobs in the independent theater scene in Berlin. She had her first collaboration with director and author Nora Abdel-Maksoud at Ballhaus Naunynstrasse. She has been engaged at Theater Basel, Volkstheater München, Theater Neumarkt and Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, among others. She has also appeared in numerous cinema films and television productions. Most recently, she appeared at Theater Basel in the world premiere of 'In den Gärten oder Lysistrata Teil 2' by Sibylle Berg, directed by Miloš Lolić, a production that was invited to the Berlin Autorentheatertage in 2020.

Benjamin Radjaipour is an actor with a soft spot for multidisciplinary approaches and a plurality of genres. In theater, he has worked with Trajal Harrell, Susanne Kennedy, Christopher Rüping, Anta Helena Recke, Toshiki Okada, Leonie Böhm and Wu Tsang, among others. In the film, Benjamin works closely with the Jünglinge collective, which also produced Faraz Shariat's multi-award-winning debut feature film Futur Drei, in which Benjamin plays the role of Parvis.

Manuel Mairhofer was born in Innsbruck in 1985. He completed his acting training at the Fritz Kirchhoff School "Der Kreis" in Berlin and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. He made his stage debut at the Tiroler Landestheater in Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. This was followed by engagements at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Philharmonie Luxembourg, the Neuköllner Oper, Kampnagel/Thalia Theater Hamburg and the Sophiensäle/Deutsches Theater Berlin. In 2021, he created his first work as a producer, the drama "Zwölferleitn", which celebrated its world premiere at the Diagonale in Graz. In addition to his work for theater, film and television, Mairhofer was also featured in the international podcast production "EXILE" with Mandy Patinkin. He also took part in the radio play "Das große Leid, das kleine Leben" by Jovana Reisinger for Deutschlandfunk and can currently be seen in the Netflix series "Alphamännchen". Most recently, he played Dr. Watson in "Sherlock Holmes - Der Fall Moriarty" at the Winterhuder Fährhaus Hamburg and was on stage for a world premiere at the Salzburger Landestheater. In addition to his artistic work, Mairhofer studied German philology and art history at the universities of Innsbruck, Vienna and Berlin and works as part of the Elfriede Jelinek research network.