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"He will become what he is," was written in his graduation certificate. And it was true! Harry Rowohlt became everything he always was and wanted to be: a hilarious linguistic artist and a virtuoso master of digression, a brilliant translator of the untranslatable and a reader with a thousand voices, and to top it all off, "Hobo Harry" in Lindenstraße. Shortly before his death, he said: "I had a happy life!"

In reality, however, his life turned out very differently than he had planned. Because he didn't want to become what he was meant to be - his father's successor as publisher - he tried desperately for years to escape Rowohlt Verlag. This biography tells the story of how Harry Rowohlt managed to find a kind of soul connection with Pu the Bear - "We're both stupid, but we get on very well".

Photo: Hans Weingartz

28.4., 19:30

Romanfabrik, Hanauer Landstraße 186, Frankfurt

2for1: 14 €

28.4., 18.30-19 o'clock, box office