Name: Sten Nadolny: “Autumn Story”
Start: 2025-09-27T19:00:00
Location: WALD.WEIT Rheingau Hotel & Retreat

Rheingau Musik Festival

For many years, the man with the red trombone dreamed of celebrating a musical Christmas in the company of good friends and with a selection of very different Christmas carols that he had encountered over the course of his career. In 2006 the time had come, and because "Christmas With My Friends" was soon considered by fans and critics alike to be one of the most beautiful Christmas records ever recorded, several editions have since been produced. This format now also takes place with great regularity at the Rheingau Music Festival and attracts not only true jazz fans, but a broad audience during Advent to the beautiful Kurhaus Wiesbaden. With his musical confidants Jonas Knutsson, Johan Norberg, Clas Lassbo and the four singers Ida Sand, Sharon Dyall, Jessica Pilnäs and Jeanette Köhn, Nils Landgren ventures into traditional songs and cover versions of exquisite Christmas carols in this concert.

Nils Landgren: “Christmas with my friends”

Friedrich-von-Thiersch-Saal

The fourth of this year's Rheingau Literature Prize winners is a legend of contemporary German literature: Sten Nadolny, who rose to world fame in 1983 with his novel "The Discovery of Slowness" and our 2012 award winner for "Weitling's Summer Resort." His latest novel, simply titled "Autumn Story," is about an actor and his writer friend who meet a young woman on a trip to Zurich. She appears to be on the run from something, possesses an unusual gift, and is simultaneously wrestling with a traumatic family history. Sten Nadolny's reading from this wise novel about friendship, deep wounds, and the importance of art will also be his first from the then-newly published book. We look forward to the returning grandmaster.