„Der längste Schlaf“ – Lesung mit Melanie Raabe

In the organizer's words:

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 been suffering from tormenting insomnia for many years. She fears her dreams, which sometimes seem to inexplicably spill over into reality. She is hardly ever in Germany, her parents died young, so Mara is not a little surprised when one day she receives a message from a notary in Frankfurt: Someone wants to bequeath her a large, old manor house in the German provinces! Mara believes it's a case of mistaken identity - but nevertheless travels to the small town she doesn't know to take a look. She is astonished to discover that she is strangely connected to this place through her dreams.

Melanie Raabe was born in Jena in 1981. After graduating, she worked as a journalist during the day and secretly wrote books at night. From 2015 - 2019, she published four crime novels that brought her to the attention of a large audience. She left the realm of traditional thrillers for the first time in 2022 with "Die Kunst des Verschwindens". Her novels have been translated into 22 languages and have been successfully adapted into many films. Melanie Raabe lives and works in Cologne.

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