Lesung mit Achim Bogdahn: Unter den Wolken

In the organizer's words:

We have invited Achim Bogdahn to our bookcase reading this Thursday. With a lot of wit and charm, he talks about his mountain tours with well-known personalities.

"After this book, you know more about Germany, about yourself and you just want one thing: Go!" Thees Uhlmann

Bavaria has the Zugspitze, Hesse has the Wasserkuppe, but does Hamburg have a highest mountain? Yes, the Hasselbrack in the Harburg mountains, 116.2 meters high. And how high is the highest peak in Bremen? 32.5 meters - the elevation in Friedehorstpark. Achim Bogdahn has set off on a journey through Germany and climbed the highest mountains in all 16 federal states. To ensure that he didn't hike alone, he invited well-known people from the respective regions to accompany him. These hikes have resulted in a book about Germany, about encounters and conversations, about people and about life - with many detours, anecdotes and digressions.

Author: Achim Bogdahn was born in Erlangen in 1965, grew up in Munich and works as a radio presenter for Bayerischer Rundfunk/Bayern 2. He studied Protestant theology in Munich, Berlin and Glasgow, was a singer in the band Isar 12 (published by Trikont) and is an ardent fan of TSV 1860 Munich (which is why his passport officially bears the stage name "Sechzig"). He has worked as an actor ("Trautmann"), he is a certified soccer referee, he speaks a little Danish and he loves to travel by train. "Under the Clouds" is his debut.

Achim Bogdahn: Under the Clouds, Heyne, 2022, 416 p., € 22.00

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