For more than 200 years, opera houses have been frequently and variously featured in novels and novellas. The lecture introduces the opera house as a literary topos and then - on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Carl Maria von Weber's death - concentrates primarily on two novels in which performances of "Der Freischütz" are described with very different emphases: Wolfgang Schlüter's "Anmut und Gnade" (2007) and Uwe Tellkamp's Dresden novel "Der Turm. History from a Sunken Land" (2008).
- With Dr Ariane Ludwig (lecture)
- Admission: 10 € / reduced 8 €
- Please book in good time online or by calling the Visitor Service of the Museums of the City of Dresden on 0351 488 7272 (MO - FR).
In co-operation with the Goethe-Gesellschaft Dresden e. V.
