Literary Salon at the Public Housing Complex

The legendary writer, journalist, and columnist is finally returning to the Gemeindebau Literary Salon with his best writings—thought-provoking, incisive, and wonderfully funny.

Over the course of many decades, Hacke has written several thousand columns, primarily for the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, as well as more than thirty books. And what is he doing now?
He tells us how he did it. He also reads to us.
But since he can’t read everything (at least not all in one evening), he’ll read only the best—or rather, strictly speaking, the very best, the funniest, the most thought-provoking, the wisest, the most hilarious—so that one might say: Actually, he has spent his entire life as an author preparing only for this evening—yes, exactly: for the best evening, no, the very best.

Axel Hacke lives in Munich as a writer. He is famous for his column “Das Beste aus aller Welt” (The Best from All Over the World), which he has been publishing every Friday in the magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung for decades. His books are bestsellers. His work has been honored with, among others, the Joseph Roth Prize, two Egon Erwin Kisch Prizes, the Theodor Wolff Prize, and most recently the Ben Witter Prize in 2019.

Subject to change.