Acting couple reads from the most beautiful love letters in the world at the Kleist Forum

A selection of the most beautiful love letters in world literature will be read by Christine Sommer and Martin Brambach at Frankfurt's Kleist Forum on May 12. The fact that the Austrian actress and the Tatort star are also a married couple in real life makes this evening particularly exciting. It's not just a reading – the air is burning with texts that are among the most beautiful that literature has produced in the past 300 years.

How do you confess to someone that you are in love? How do you put these wild feelings into words? What do you write when love is over?

Full of passion, Napoleon wrote to his wife Josephine that he could not live without her, Empress Sissy to King Ludwig II, Kurt Tucholsky to his lover Mary Gerold, Heinrich von Kleist to Henriette Vogel, with whom he went to his death. But there are also extremely funny letters, for example from Bertolt Brecht to Paula Banholzer and the two marriage letters from Antonin Artaud. August Strindberg, Henry Miller and Marlene Dietrich wrote letters about parting, the pain of separation and death. The correspondence between Olga Knipper and Anton Chekhov, which documents a love story that goes far beyond death, is also heartbreaking.

When and where?

Sunday, 12. May 2024 | 3:00 p.m.
Kleist Forum, Platz der Einheit 1, 15230 Frankfurt (Oder)
 

"These lonely nights"
Reading with Christine Sommer and Martin Brambach