Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empressin Her Time is a biography written by Richard Bassett on the life of one of the most influential European monarchs of the 18th century.
The intimate portrayal traces five lives in a traumatic time when the face of both Ireland and the United States are changed through the devastation of one culture and the reckoning of another.
Written Portraits is a participative performance based on improvisation where, as painters do, Adrián Dozetas portrays a person improvising a poem with his typewriter and the person gets the poem in paper as a present.
Author Günther Kaip and translator Matthias Goldmann will be present and read Miniatures both in German & English. Texts with a special swing and groove that arises in the balance between prose and poetry.
A cross between Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and a Cheers bartender, Sally Witherspoon, a 50-something accountant turned biker-bar owner, loves solving puzzles.