Caroline Peters reads at the Tollhaus from her touching debut novel
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Caroline Peters reads at the Tollhaus from her debut novel
When Caroline Peters reads from A Different Life at the cultural center Tollhaus on October 7, 2026, the stage transforms into a space of memories filled with subtle fractures, surprising comedy, and big questions. The award-winning actress tells the story of Hanna, a woman navigating between family expectations, personal desires, and the wish for a self-determined life.
A daughter searches for her mother
The focus of the reading is on Hanna's youngest daughter. Many years after her mother's death, she looks back on a childhood in the Rhineland of the 1970s and 1980s. The result is not a straightforward family portrait but a multi-layered memory image: Hanna falls out of her role, loses herself in poems, works in a library, and shapes daily life with a peculiar mix of bourgeoisie and bohemia.
Between champagne, Pushkin, and the duck
Caroline Peters leads scenes of peculiar radiance: champagne and Pushkin on Sunday mornings, visits to the library after school, poker games under the Christmas tree, and adventurous trips in the duck. These details give the family story a sensuous atmosphere and reveal a world where each day unfolds a little differently than expected.
Acting meets literary precision
Caroline Peters brings her experience from prominent stages like the Berlin Schaubühne and the Vienna Burgtheater into the reading. Her acting infuses the text with rhythm, tension, and emotional accuracy. The dramaturgy of the narrative thrives on the interplay between loving memory, painful distance, and delightful humor.
A personal book with great resonance
A Different Life is Caroline Peters' debut novel and simultaneously a literary engagement with origins, mother-daughter relationships, and the search for one's own path. Peters has been awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize, the Bavarian Television Award, the German Actor's Award, and the Nestroy Theater Prize, among others. In 2016 and 2018, the magazine Theater heute named her Actress of the Year.
The stage experience at Tollhaus promises a concentrated encounter with an unusual family story: personal, powerful, touching, and full of keen observations. Those who want to experience Caroline Peters live will find here literature, acting, and theater atmosphere in close proximity.
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