NIMM PLATZ - Kölner Literatursommer mit Marina Barth

In the organizer's words:

Marina Barth reads from Am Kronleuchter hängen wir nicht immer - wie Trude Herr die Welt sah as part of the Cologne Summer of Literature at NIMM PLATZ

The new novel by theater director and cabaret artist Marina Barth from the Klüngelpütz Theater:
Trude Herr's extraordinary talent for entertainment and her love of disguises are evident from an early age. Caught between her desire for freedom and the confines of the bourgeois Adenauer Republic of the 50s and 60s, between the pulsating artist scene and the booming gangster world, the working-class daughter without a profession makes her way from the "schäl Sick" to the big stage and becomes an icon of her time. But with her incomparably disarming humor, she created a corset for herself from which there was no escape. Transfigured, misjudged, appropriated. This historical-biographical novel tells her early story against the backdrop of Cologne and West German history. How did she become an icon? What centrifugal forces was she exposed to that were exemplary for an entire society? With many original quotes, we get to know many an unknown side of the actress - beyond the fact that she preferred a man to chocolate.

_{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).}