NIMM PLATZ - KÖLNER LITERATURSOMMER MIT HANKA MEVES

In the organizer's words:

Hanka Meves reads from The Composer of Cologne

Cologne, around 1900: Maria Herz-Bing discovers her love of music at an early age. Her school friend Franzi tells how the daughter of the Bing silk ribbon dynasty and mother of four children succeeds in becoming a composer against the resistance of her time. While Maria goes to England with her husband, Franzi is not allowed to work as a teacher in Cologne because she is getting married. It is the story of two friends who want to combine family and career and fight against many obstacles. It is also an exciting piece of Cologne and English history between the imperial era, the upheavals of the First World War, the dazzling 1920s and the rise of the National Socialists.

A novel about the liberal Jewish life of the time in Cologne, in the middle of which the Seidenband department store, today's health department, stands on Neumark. The author will read from the historical novel and perform excerpts of Maria Herz's music.

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).