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Writer: Mircea Cărtărescu (Bucharest)
Reading: Dorothee Hartinger (Vienna)
Music: Winkler & Hatz feat. Sasa Shevshenko
(Vienna): Franziska Hatz/ Accordion,
Richie Winkler/ Saxophone,
Sasa Shevshenko/ Accordion

Moderator: Veronika Trubel (Vienna)

Mircea Cărtărescu’s novel Solenoid, like his trilogy Die Wissenden, is set in the ruins of Bucharest in the final years of socialism. A catastrophic encounter with the world, highly expressive and staged like very few works of contemporary literature. Dreams and hallucinations are followed by real encounters; memories merge into incantations, obsessions and the unconscious take their place. And: great comedy repeatedly shines through in this powerful universe. In his recently published book, Melancolia, Cărtărescu writes about childhood and adolescence and tackles the grand themes of life: loneliness, separation, love.

Burgtheater actress, Dorothee Hartinger,
reads from the text. Music from the accordion
and saxophone draws a wide arc between
Moscow to Vienna and Graz, between Klezmer,
world music and jazz.

In cooperation with Festival Glatt&Verkehrt.

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Radu Sandovici	Mircea Cărtărescu Born 1956, is a Romanian writer. He spent numerous sojourns abroad, including in Berlin, Vienna and Florence. His literary works have won multiple awards, among others, the Austrian State Prize for European Literature, Thomas Mann Prize and Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding. Recently published in German: Melancolia, 2022.
Stephan von der Deken	Dorothee Hartinger Born 1971, is a German actress. She has been a member of the Burgtheater ensemble since 2002 and appeared in co-productions at the Vienna Festival and Salzburg Festival.
	Franziska Hatz is dedicated to World Music and has been program curator of the International Accordion Festival in Vienna since 2015. Richie Winkler teaches at the Johann Josef Fux Conservatory of Music in Graz. He is a composer and an arranger and plays saxophone and clarinet. He interprets classical jazz, among other genres, in a new form.
	Sasa Shevshenko plays classical and folk music on the accordion, as well as jazz and pop/electronics. Engagements at the Burgtheater, Volksoper and Theater an der Josefstadt.