Lesung HUBERTUS MEYER- BURCKHARDT- „Die Sonne scheint immer. Für die Wolken kann ich nichts.“

In the organizer's words:

He knew that one day he would do 'something to do with entertainment'. During his reading on September 9, the well-known TV presenter Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt tells local journalist Ann-Claire Richter what he learned about life from his grandmother.

'If you really want to be proud of your colony, I recommend the profession of beekeeper. With this sentence, Christel Vollbrecht, born in 1898 and the grandmother of Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt, toasted her counterpart in the Boos wine bar, where she sat almost every evening. When she wasn't crouching in the sidecar of a Moto Guzzi and ordering the driver: 'Faster. Please drive faster already!
A life in the fast lane, rebellious, non-conformist, full of joie de vivre and incredibly strong and courageous: this is how Hubertus Meyer-Burkhardt - TV producer, bestselling author and guest host of the NDR talk show - remembers his beloved grandmother, who shaped him like no other person. How did she deal with the world that shattered twice before her eyes? What did she give her grandson for his life? And wouldn't it be wonderful if we had more people of her caliber in this day and age?
People with an unconditional love of life, with wit, a spirit of contradiction and character. In autobiographical episodes, Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt tells the story of a woman who was ahead of her time: a tender declaration of love and a search for the driving forces behind her own life.

About Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt:
Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt, born in Kassel in 1956, stepped onto the stage of the local municipal theater at the age of 15. From then on, he knew that he wanted to do "something with entertainment" and attended the University of Television and Film. As a TV producer, he won numerous awards, spent years on the board of Axel Springer AG and ProSieben-Sat.1 and held a professorship at the Hamburg Media School. He is also known to an audience of millions as the host of over 1,000 broadcasts of the "NDR Talk Show". His SPIEGEL bestseller "Die ganze Scheiße mit der Zeit: Meine Entdeckung des Jetzt" (2021) was recently published.