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Literature festival 2025
On Saturday, June 14, 2025, the House MEISSEN invites you to three varied readings in the jewelry courtyard of the porcelain manufactory. Look forward to an entertaining morning in an unusual place and listen to the stories in a summery ambience.
Admission to the readings is free. You can download the complete programme of the literature festival here (in German).
The MEISSEN Adventure World with its demonstration workshop, museum, stores and café & restaurant MEISSEN will be open for you on this day from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Erlebniswelt Haus MEISSEN
Talstraße 9
01662 Meißen
11 am Janet Tamme-Hentzschel, mum of two with a passion for Meissen porcelain, reads from Louise Jacobs' autobiography ‘Fräulein Jacobs funktioniert nicht: Als ich aufhört, gut zu sein’.
Louise Jacobs was born into the famous Jacobs coffee roasting dynasty. And it is clear from the outset that she too will become successful one day. But when Louise starts school, it soon becomes clear that she will struggle to keep up with the others. Louise becomes more and more of an outsider. At the age of fifteen, she falls ill with anorexia and is admitted to a clinic. After her release, things are much better - but the question remains: What to do with a life in which you fall out of the role you were meant to play? And where can you find the home you are looking for in vain at home?
Free tickets for the reading (in German) are available here.
At 1 pm, Franz Rudolph, economist and management consultant, will tell us about the exciting story of the creation and distribution of the following booklet.
‘Du Traum aus Meissener Porzellan’ with illustrations by Heinz Werner. The book consists of around 60 quotations from important literary works from Diderot to Goethe, Zola, Flaubert, Balzac, Tolstoy, Fontane, Proust and many more.
Free tickets for the reading (in German) are available here.
2.30 pm Anja Weidemann, born in East Germany and managing director of the Meissen Porcelain Foundation, reads from ‘Drei ostdeutsche Frauen betrinken sich und gründen den idealen Staat’ by Peggy Mädler.
Three friends, a kitchen table, the night outside the window: Annett Gröschner, Peggy Mädler and Wenke Seemann talk. They talk about themselves as ‘East German women’, whatever that pigeonhole means, about the happiness of crooked lives, about the present with its constantly intruding past. They drink, laugh and wrestle, talk about scraps of memory and contradictions, about the complexity of imprints and about ideals that have become alien over the years. A down-to-earth analysis of the present that is self-ironic, clever and entertaining.
Free tickets for the reading (in German) are available here.