Events in the Würzburg City Library

After most of the events in the spring of this year had to be canceled due to Corona, the Würzburg City Library will start again in autumn. The library announced this in a press release. Even if a few items on the program still fall victim to the hygiene rules, the employees of the city library in the Falkenhaus have again made all the preparations to be able to offer both an attractive literary and an exciting training program ?? always, of course, in compliance with the existing rules, so that visitors to the events are protected as required and can still experience culture together again. Even though the number of participants had to be reduced across the board, the literary quality and the fun of education certainly did not!

As announced, the “Literary Autumn” of the city library in the Falkenhaus is making up for three of the readings that were canceled in the spring: Martina Borger, Michael Kumpfmüller and the cultural journalist Karla Paul will be presenting their very personal books for 2020.

In the learning workshop of the city library in cooperation with the Volkshochschule Würzburg, the participants receive assistance in digital technologies (e-books, WhatsApp, digital legacy); or something tangible is required (“Everyone learns the guitar”, juggling, gardening close to nature); or workshops on performances by the Mainfranken Theater.

Events take place regularly again

The literature café invites twice on Saturday afternoons, with books being presented, text excerpts read and discussed (October 10 and November 28). The writing workshop will meet every fortnight from October 15th in the Falkenhaus and aim to spontaneously write down experiences, observations, memories and thoughts; and not only rediscovering your mother tongue, but also the joy of telling stories.

The literary autumn starts on Tuesday, October 13th. Martina Borger, who already published successful crime novels under the label “Borger & Straub” between 2001 and 2009 together with Maria Elisabeth Straub, is the first. “We catch up with everything”, the novel from which she will read in Würzburg, tells the story of Sina, who, as a single mother, devotedly takes care of her son Elvis. When Sina meets Torsten, her life takes a new turn. Torsten is a loving partner to her and a caring second father to eight-year-old Elvis. One day, however, the family’s world seems to fall apart: Elvis has bruises on his body that he tries to hide. Sina suspects. A blended family that has only just pulled itself together is out of balance? tragic and momentous.

“The most famous book influencer introduces her favorites

For the third time, Michael Kumpfmüller will be a guest at the city library on Wednesday, October 28th. His novel “Ach Virginia!” evokes the last ten days in the life of the great British writer Virginia Woolf. In March 1941, Virginia Woolf got into her last major crisis: She has just finished her new book. German bombers are flying over the little cottage in the south of England that she and her husband Leonard live in. She leads the life of a prisoner who doesn’t know how and where to break out? and in the end she chooses the river. “Oh, Virginia” is a literary portrait in the smallest of spaces, but it is even more: a passionate plea for life, an attempt at rapprochement, at the end of which there is the realization that you don’t have to approve of everything that you can understand.

The 2020 year of literature is drawing to a close – readers are now looking for the best gifts for themselves and their loved ones. Which novels & non-fiction books are worthwhile, which ones were talked about the most and what were the favorites of the feature pages? Karla Paul, born in Würzburg and the “best known book influencer in Germany” (Zeit Magazin), will present books of the year 2020 competently and personally worth reading on Friday, November 20 and offers a colorful mix of readings that informs and entertains for every mood and situation in life.

Programs and further information on the individual series and program items are available in the city library in the Falkenhaus or one of the district libraries in Heidingsfeld, at Heuchelhof or Hubland, in Lengfeld or Versbach. Registrations at [email protected] or by phone at 0931- 373438.

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