The water tower team made you want to read at various stations

Großmaischeid. Literatur, das geschriebene und das gesprochene Wort, haben einen hohen Stellenwert in Großmaischeid.Uwe Engel and Uwe Schlösser have often organized readings that encountered a large echo every time.You are happy to choose the water tower as an event location.As "boys from the Oberdorf" you have a special interest in this landmark of Großmaischeid.However, this time, at the latest event, they included other places in the village.In addition to the water tower, the "literary tour" also led to the community center, the church and in "Maria’s Gärtchen".

The organizers, the Wasserturm team, called it a "literary walk of a special kind".Nine readings were waiting for the participants in four locations.The well -known author Annegret Held, who reads from her novel "Poverty is a burning shirt".

The other lecturers were not themselves writers themselves, but those interested in literature from Großmaischeid, who pretend to be out of their favorite books.So the “literary tour” developed into a foray through the place where you met acquaintances and got to know a colorful range of different books.It started with Barbara Seelk, who has already appeared literarily with his own works.She read from a work of Martin Suter, "Allmen and the dragonflies", in which a fuelery and fine spirit that is financially off to the bredouill.Seelk read in the idyllic garden of Maria Klassmann on Beetstrasse.The audience had made itself comfortable under old fruit trees and cool drinks on this wonderful summer afternoon.At the same place you could later read Petra Böhm from "With the fridge through Ireland" by Tony Hawks and Sabine Zurek from "The Hidden Language of Flowers" by Vanessa DiffenbauGH.

The forum at the community center as a place of your readings had chosen Jutta Schlösser, Hermann-Josef Schneider and Thomas Böhm.They read the works "Red Angel" by Tess Gerritsen, "Why men lie and always buy shoes" from Allan and Barbara Pease as well as "Durst" by Flann O’Brien.In the Großmaischeid church, Regine Engel and Susanne Jochim were listened to, who had chosen "my mother's ashes" by Frank McCourt and "The Rosie Project" by Graeme Simsion.

Annegret Held formed the crowning glory

To the crowning glory, the “literary tour” led to the water tower, where Annegret Held had prepared for her reading.All 60 seat cards were sold.Annegret Held, who comes from Pottum in the Westerwald, briefly made sure that you also understand the dialect in Großmaischeid, and then delighted the guests with a broadest Wäller Platt.Because the dialect plays a major role in its novel.He is about poverty in the Westerwald in 19.Century and by children who are handed over by their parents against money to travel dealers who promise them a better life in England.In a review of the book in the WDR, it was said: “Relentlessly authentic, also because the figures in Westerwälder speak dialect, Annegret Held takes us into the life of her ancestors.This creates a very special piece of contemporary history, which is fascinating and deterrent, inviting and repulsive at the same time."Poverty is a burning shirt" is a huge, especially voice -awakened home novel, which, despite all the need, that prevails, is not melancholy or even sad, but so realistic and captivating that we readers want these gnarled, tough people,who, despite all the adversities, have never lost their courage to meet in their village.“Following her reading, Annegret Held showed historical recordings from the time of her novel.The author herself has a moving biography.After graduating from high school, she completed an internship in a hospital and did a voluntary social year in a life aid facility.From 1982 she trained as a policewoman and then worked for three years in Darmstadt and Frankfurt am Main as the main police guardian in the patrol service.From 1987 she studied ethnology and art history.Then she practiced various activities, including as a secretary in a law firm and assistant in the nursing sector as well as as a air safety assistant in the field of passenger control.Today she lives with her daughter as a freelance writer in Frankfurt am Main.