THOMAS MELLE »HAUS ZUR SONNE«

In the organizer's words:

An event organized by the Literaturhaus Bonn.

Following his internationally acclaimed book "Die Welt im Rücken" ("The World at Your Back"), in which he brilliantly dealt with his life with bipolar disorder, Thomas Melle now presents a novel that further explores the border areas between autobiography and fiction, between longing and depression and ultimately between life and death.

How much self-determination is possible when life is controlled by a mental illness? What does someone who has nothing left to lose long for? And what might ultimate happiness look like? Welcome to the "Haus zur Sonne", an institution that is both a wish-fulfillment machine and an abolition apparatus. People who are tired of life and terminally ill hand themselves in to this state-funded clinic to have every conceivable wish fulfilled and then - without much ado - to depart from life. But do people who no longer want to live really want to die?

Thomas Melle, born and raised in Bonn in 1975, is the author of widely performed plays and has translated William Shakespeare and Quentin Tarantino, among others, into German. His prose works "Sickster" (2011), "3000 Euro" (2014) and "Die Welt im Rücken" (2016) were nominated for the German Book Prize.

In cooperation with Theater Bonn

Theater Bonn, Werkstatt, Rheingasse 1, 53111 Bonn
Tickets from 22.8. Advance booking via Theater Bonn €16.50 plus 10% booking fee

Price information:

Tickets from 22.8. VVK via Theater Bonn 16,50 € plus 10% VVK fee