Lesung: "Abscheuliches Weibsbild - Geliebte Stella!"

Reading from the correspondence between George Bernard Shaw and Stella Patrick-Campbell, arranged by Susanne Schwan and Dirk Böttger.
(The originally planned reading "Verdi: Maestro of Opera Realism" unfortunately has to be postponed).

"How can she only love a male excavator machine?" A typically sarcastic self-description by the greatest Irish playwright and poet of his time: George Bernard Shaw. She refers to the greatest British actress of those years: Stella Patrick-Campbell. His muse, lover and actress, witty, charming, quick-witted. They wrote letters to each other for over 30 years. They are a firework of wit, drama, profundity and evidence of the creation of great stage literature: Shaw wrote "Pygmalion" tailor-made for Stella. Neither of them lived to see the global success of the musical "My Fair Lady". Stella died impoverished and lonely in the south of France. In a hatbox under her bed: the correspondence between these two dazzling personalities.
Venue: Central Library in the Hanse Carré, Bgm.-Smidt-Straße 10