Heinz Strunk

Book premiere with Heinz Strunk: Zauberberg 2

Start: 7.30 pm I Tickets available here

Thomas Mann's novel "The Magic Mountain" was published exactly 100 years ago and immediately met with a great response; today the book is one of the most important works of literature of the 20th century. Heinz Strunk's "The Magic Mountain 2" is a tribute to this classic, a great novel in its own right, and is entirely Heinz Strunk!

Jonas Heidbrink is a successful man. He sold his start-up before his thirtieth birthday and has never had to work a day in his life. But Heidbrink is not doing well, not at all. And so, one cold January day, he heads east to the Mecklenburg wasteland, where a castle-like building rises up in the middle of the marshes: the sanatorium. It's all very posh, but it's still a clinic for people with one or two ailments. Heidbrink is quickly wrapped up in the corset of ward rounds and treatments and has to decide whether he wants to follow his misanthropy in the dining room or make friends. The people here - doctors, nurses, patients - are strangers to him, but they soon become his world.

The writer, musician and actor Heinz Strunk was born in Bevensen in 1962. Since his first novel "Fleisch ist mein Gemüse" , he has published 14 more books. "The Golden Glove" was on the bestseller list for months; the film adaptation by Fatih Akin screened in competition at the Berlinale. In 2016, the author was honored with the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize. His novels "Es ist immer so schön mit dir" and "Ein Sommer in Niendorf" were nominated for the German Book Prize.