Lecture with Petra Hartlieb "Buberl Partie"
Petra Hartlieb will read on Sunday, January 10, 2027, at 6:00 p.m. in the Sonnenburg hotel library from her new novel "Buberl Partie." The reading is suitable for adults.
Buberl Partie
Chief Inspector Alma Oberkofler is actually almost on vacation when she witnesses a car racing into a restaurant at a popular Vienna market. The explosion shortly after is devastating. Although Alma can save the kitchen assistant's life, help comes too late for the owner Amon Cohen, the journalist Sebastian Schmuck, and a young waitress. Was it an attack on the Jewish owner of the restaurant, the left-wing journalist, or the Ukrainian family living above – or just an accident? And who was the smoker who enjoyed the sun on a bench in front of the establishment shortly before? The driver of the car is also dead and is by no means a stranger in the media: Albert Schotterer was part of Austria's far-right scene. He had repeatedly been talked about for a key role in a right-wing populist government. Alma and her team investigate in all directions – even if politicians are already deciding behind their backs about the outcome of the investigations and want to put a stop to the Department of Life and Protection.
The Austrian author and bookseller Petra Hartlieb , born in 1967 in Munich and raised in Upper Austria, studied psychology and history and worked as a press officer and literary critic in Vienna and Hamburg. In 2004, she took over a traditional bookstore in Vienna, from which her bestsellers ›My Wonderful Bookstore‹ and ›Christmas in the Wonderful Bookstore‹ stem. Additionally, ›When Spring Comes to Vienna‹, ›Summer in Vienna‹, and ›Autumn in Vienna‹ as well as ›Friendship Economy‹ were published by DuMont.
Where: Library, Hotel Sonnenburg
Registration is possible at hotel@sonnenburg.at or at the Sonnenburg reception.
For Sonnenburg hotel and restaurant guests, participation in the reading is free of charge. If you are only attending the reading, an entrance fee of €5.00 per person will be charged. You can pay this amount directly at the Sonnenburg reception before the event.
