NIMM PLATZ - Kölner Literatursommer mit Angela Steidele

In the organizer's words:

Angela Steidele reads from Rosenstengel

A woman in men's clothing who tries her hand at being a prophet, musketeer and 'husband' to another woman. A bankrupt king who builds castles as stage sets. A pietistic priest and his theocracy. A philosopher who rants about the Enlightenment. A doctor who only cures his patients as lovers.

Angela Steidele tells the story in her historical epistolary novel Rosenstengel. Ein Manuskript aus dem Umfeld Ludwigs II. (Berlin: Matthes & Seitz 2015) is so witty and clever about erotic, intellectual and religious love affairs over two centuries that it stormed the SWR bestseller list and was awarded the Bavarian Book Prize. The plot of the novel also leads to Cologne, where Catharina Linck, alias Anastasius Rosenstengel, prophesies to a merchant that he can walk on water ...

"Angela Steideles' work allows you to laugh and think." (Denis Scheck)

The Cologne Summer of Literature is curated by the Cologne Literature Scene

NIMM PLATZ am Neumarkt is a joint project of Cologne's cultural administration and the independent cultural scene, with contributions from the University of Music and Dance (HfMT) and the Academy of Media Arts (KHM).