Lesung und Gespräch: Buchpremiere mit Magdalena Saiger: »Am Wasser das Haus«

Moderation: Brigitte van Kann
Welcome: Markus Bertsch, Director and Curator of the 19th Century Collection
Venue: Werner-Otto-Saal
Admission: € 12,- / reduced 10,-

In 1909, Max Liebermann acquired a plot of land on the shores of Lake Wannsee and designed the house and garden himself - a place of escape from the duties of everyday life, but also a place of inspiration for numerous paintings. The fact that the villa would change beyond recognition again and again after Liebermann's death in 1935 is the starting point for this panorama of the place, captured in fleeting images that fan out into diverse figures and voices and extend right up to the present day.
At the book premiere at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, the author Magdalena Saiger, who was recently awarded the Hamburg Literature Prize for the third time, will read from the book and talk to the radio author and translator Brigitte van Kann and Markus Bertsch, exhibition curator of the 19th Century Collection at the Kunsthalle.

"I am touched by the history of this house, by how it was dreamed of, how it became reality and yet offered no refuge. Magdalena Saiger's language, which carefully approaches the past, paints the pictures of a place that is itself painted by Liebermann. It is as haunting as it is beautiful." Katrin Seddig