DIE FACKEL - another Schubertiade

Reading with Joachim Meyerhoff

„…Comics as a loophole from one's own helplessness…“ (Joachim Meyerhoff)

For a long time, Joachim Meyerhoff's readership had to wait until the sixth volume of his novel series was finally published. With his autofictional stories about childhood, youth, studying acting, the path to becoming a successful actor, and first strokes of fate in medical form, he has been captivating millions of readers since he began writing.

He already appeared in 2023 at the Salzkammergut Festival Weeks Gmunden with his Shakespeare universe.

One or another scene can be rediscovered in his new novel: At fifty, the narrator moves to the countryside to live with his eighty-year-old mother to write a novel about the theater titled "Shame and Stage." It becomes an incomparable, eventful few weeks, during which he finds his way out of a deep life crisis with the help of his mother.