An evening for Vicki Baum. Reading with music
Event
Estate of Emil Stumpp, German Exile Archive
begin 11.04.2024, 19:30
end 11.04.2024, 20:30
location Frankfurt am Main
The Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, the Freie Universität Berlin and the German Exile Archive 1933–1945 are inviting guests to an evening of literature and music as part of their joint conference "Vicki Baum and America".
At the end of March 1932, best-selling author Vicki Baum boarded a ship that was to take her to her new home in the USA. She had already travelled to the USA in 1931 for a promotional campaign organised by her New York publisher. At that time, the adaptation of her successful novel "Grand Hotel" was enjoying great success on Broadway. Vicki Baum was granted American citizenship in 1938; from the 1940s, she also wrote in English. One of her first English-language works was the autobiographical novel "Marion Alive" (1941). An introduction to the text will be provided by literary scholar Desiree Hebenstreit, while soprano and speaker Ingrid El Sigai will read selected passages. Musical accompaniment will be provided by harpist Mélie Leneutre.
Photo: private
Desiree Hebenstreit is a lecturer and research associate at the University of Vienna’s Institute for German Studies. She studied German studies, comparative literature and history in Vienna and Perugia and obtained a doctorate in modern German literature in 2015. Between 2003 and 2006, she was a lecturer at the University of Bari. Since 2011, she has been working on various research projects at the Austrian National Library’s Literatury Archive and the University of Vienna. In 2023, Hebenstreit took over the Austrian management of the FWF/DFG project for the "Vicki Baum edition".
Photo: Tillmann Zizka
Ingrid El Sigai is a soprano, speaker and presenter. She has been freelancing with the public broadcasting corporation Hessischer Rundfunk since 1990 and with the television channel hr Fernsehen since 1997, and has also broadcast for ARD, ZDF, ARTE and 3sat. She lectures in speech training at the Akademie für Tonkunst in Darmstadt and also teaches at the University of Giessen and the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main. El Sigai directs the Kleine Oper opera company in Bad Homburg and has given numerous guest performances, e.g. at Oper Frankfurt and the Schauspiel theatre in Freiburg.
Photo: Estelle Friedrich
Mélie Leneutre is a harpist. She trained at the music conservatory in Versailles and studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Frankfurt am Main. In 2021, she won the Junior Harp Competition in Nice, and in 2022 she was a finalist in the Concours Martine Géliot. In recent years, she has performed with various ensembles such as the Hesse Youth Symphony Orchestra, the Aschaffenburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Hamburger Camerata. As a member of the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, she gave concerts at the Kölner Philharmonie concert hall in Cologne and the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg.
More information about the conference programme www.dnb.de/vickibaum
An event organised jointly by the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, the Freie Universität Berlin and the German National Library's German Exile Archive 1933–1945.
Information and Contact
The event will be held in German.
Venue: Lecture hall, German National Library in Frankfurt am Main
Costs: Free admission
Duration: 90 minutes
Booking: Online via the button above
Cloakroom info: Please leave your coats, jackets and umbrellas in the cloakroom. You will need two two-Euro coins to store your bags and jackets in the lockers.
Accessibility: The area in which the event will be taking place is barrier-free accessible
Contact: exilarchiv-veranstaltungen@dnb.de or by phone: +49 69 1525-1987
Address and Getting here
German National Library
Adickesallee 1
60322 Frankfurt am Main
Getting here
We advise you to use public transport.
1 / By public transport
By rail
From the main railway station (underground level), take the U5 in the direction of Preungesheim and get off at the stop “Deutsche Nationalbibliothek”. Journey time approx. 10 minutes.
By plane
From the airport (regional station), take S-Bahn S8 in the direction of Hanau or the S9 in the direction of Offenbach and get off at “Konstablerwache”. Change to the U5 in the direction of Preungesheim and get off at the stop “Deutsche Nationalbibliothek”. Journey time approx. 30 minutes.
By bus
The “Deutsche Nationalbibliothek” bus stop is served by the number M32 bus.
2 / By bike
The German National Library in Frankfurt am Main can easily be reached by bike. You can get to the DNB by taking the cycle paths on Adickesallee, Nibelungenallee, and Eckenheimer Landtraße.
Covered bicycle racks are located right at the main entrance.
3 / By car
The address for navigation devices is Eckenheimer Landstraße 165. The building is accessed from the underground car park. The maximum entrance height is 2.0 m.
Approaching from the west
Take the A66 to the end of the autobahn in Miquelallee and follow the signs for Fulda/Hanau; at the third intersection, turn right into Eckenheimer Landstraße in the direction of the city centre; follow the signs and turn right into the underground car park.
Approaching from the north
Take the A661 to the Eckenheim exit, get into the lane for the city centre/Eckenheim, continue straight on to the third major set of traffic lights and cross these. The entrance to the underground car park is located at the German National Library building around 100 metres further on the right.
Parking
Our car park has 100 parking spaces for visitors on the first basement floor.
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 6:00 to 22:00, Saturday 8:00 to 18:00.
Fees: 2.00 Euro/hour, cash or card payment.
The permanent rental of parking spaces is not possible.
For on-street parking spaces in the Holzhausenviertel district, the City of Frankfurt of Main charges 50 cents per quarter hour or part thereof from Monday to Friday between 7:00 and 19:00.
4 / Accessibility
The German National Library in Frankfurt am Main has designated disabled parking spaces in its car park and next to the building in Schlosserstraße. The Library's public rooms can be accessed by lift from the underground car park. Barrier-free access to the main entrance is also available from Schlosserstraße.
Last changes:
03.04.2024
