Fräulein Nette unterwegs: Landschaften des schönen Scheiterns

The CfL on Tour: Following in the footsteps of the novel Fräulein Nettes kurzer Sommer (Miss Nette's Short Summer) by Karen Duve, we discover the horse country of Westphalia through literature. Together with many other artists, the author and singer Bettina Bruns will travel from Hülshoff Castle to Bökerhof and back again – bringing music, texts and conversations with them. We can expect a traveling festival, a traveling circus of a special kind!

Reading with Alice Hasters and Rike Scheffler and a garden installation by students of the University of Paderborn

The private castle park of Schloss Wewer opens its gates for this extraordinary event. At three different starting times - 3 p.m., 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. - you can embark on a literary journey of discovery in the park between old trees and flowering meadows.

There will be a poetry performance by musician and poet Rike Scheffler and a reading by bestselling author Alice Hasters. Inspired by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, both encourage reflection on the trio of themes beauty - failure - shame. Rike Scheffler's work moves between language and music in search of a shelter for the ego, and Alice Hasters looks directly into the abysses of social media.

Students from the Institute of German Studies at the University of Paderborn have also taken on the themes of beauty, failure and shame in literary form. The resulting films, essays and poetic set pieces can be found all over the park grounds and invite you to listen, read, dream.