LiteraturRaum – Free reading circles in Munich for our culture guests

With the LiteraturRaum, we offer two reading circles for our culture guests. The "Reading Circle 1", takes place under the direction of Patricia Schüttler . A second "Reading Circle 2", led by Andrea Schittenhelm , has the motto "Books that mean the world - a literary journey around the world". The participants in the reading circles share a love of books and the joy of discussing literature with like-minded people. Our meetings take place once a month on the premises of the KulturRaum in Zenettistraße. A book title is discussed that has been selected and read in advance by the participants.

The aim is for everyone to have their say in the informal discussions. It is always amazing how many different ways a text can be interpreted and what different experiences each individual has when reading it. By exchanging opinions, the participants enrich each other. To deepen our reading impressions, we also occasionally attend author readings, film or theater performances. We have also had the opportunity to take a look behind the scenes of a large publishing house.

The books are donated to us by publishers, so that participation in the literature room is free of charge for our culture guests at a hunt.

what we read

We love variety! Most of the time we read current, publicly discussed titles or classics of world literature - but our reading group is also open to unconventional book suggestions and reading experiences. The following titles have been discussed so far:

July Zeh - Unterleuten
Gertrud Leutenegger – Late Guests
Michel Houellebecq - Serotonin
Leïla Slimani – Then you too can sleep
Eugen Ruge - In times of waning light
Joachim Meyerhoff – When will things go back to how they never were
Aravind Adiga - The White Tiger
Sarah Bakewell - The Existentialist Cafe
Truman Capote - Summer Thieves
Elena Ferrante – The Neapolitan Saga (Part 1-3)
Natasha Vodin - She came from Mariupol