STEFANIE HÖFLER »FEUERWANZEN LÜGEN NICHT«

The Literaturhaus Bonn aims to inspire young people to love literature and, in collaboration with a 7th-grade class from Hardtberg Gymnasium, is organizing a reading from *Feuerwanzen lügen nicht*. The students are learning everything they need to know to put on a great reading from the Literaturhaus Bonn, and they’re taking the reins themselves: from planning and hosting to managing the entrance and book sales, it’s all in their hands. Come on by—Stefanie Höfler and the young literature fans are looking forward to seeing you!

The multi-award-winning author Stefanie Höfler writes with a magnificent literary voice and great empathy about child poverty and social injustice.

Mischa thinks his best friend Nits’s one-liners are great. Nits admires the talented Mischa because he knows a thousand things about animals. Nits would have believed anything Mischa said—until he stumbles upon more and more lies and discovers that there are entirely different truths behind it all. But how could he not have seen that!?

Stefanie Höfler, born in 1978, studied German, English, and Scandinavian languages and literature in Freiburg and Dundee, Scotland. She is a teacher and theater educator and lives with her family in a small town in the Black Forest. Beltz & Gelberg has already published her novels *Mein Sommer mit Mucks*, *Tanz der Tiefseequalle* (awarded the LUCHS of the Year), “Der große schwarze Vogel,” and “Feuerwanzen lügen nicht”—all of which were nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize—as well as the children’s book “Helsin Apelsin” and (together with Claudia Weikert) the picture books “Waldtage” and “Die Eroberung der Villa Herbstgold.” Höfler’s books have received numerous nominations and awards, including the Leipzig Lesekompass, the Kranichstein Youth Literature Fellowship (“Der große schwarze Vogel”), and the fellowship for the 2020 Reinhold Schneider Prize.

An event as part of the Käpt’n Book Reading Festival

In cooperation with the Hardtberg-Gymnasium

The KlasseBuch series is a collaboration between the Literaturhaus Bonn and Bonn schools, which is expressly open to audiences outside of school as well as anyone else interested. Building on project work and reading in the classroom, the event becomes a live literary experience for students in which they actively participate.