It should be an entertaining anniversary evening, organized jointly by the Steyr City Library and the Marlen Haushofer Literature Forum. From 7 p.m., all Steyr residents who are keen on reading and literature are invited to celebrate a special festival with a number of guests of honour: The former “Central Library of the City of Steyr” is celebrating its 60th birthday in the Old Theater.
“We have prepared an amusing journey through these six decades,” says Michaela Frech, who moderates this evening and prepared it together with Isabelle Janko, who has been head of the library for a year, library employee Daniel Kargl and Till Mairhofer from the Literaturforum. In doing so, some astonishing things should also be brought in front of the curtain. For example, that the first registered reader of the library was the then mayor Josef Fellinger or that former mayor Gerald Hackl is one of the regular and good customers of this institution. In addition, in the early years of the central library, it went without saying that it was also open on Saturdays before this service was discontinued and only revived years later. A special feature is that some former directors have also written books themselves.
At the anniversary celebration, instead of lengthy speeches, Frech will conduct interviews with Mayor Markus Vogl, cultural advisor Katrin Auer and Sabine Engleitner-Neu, member of the state parliament.
During the break, the city invites you to a drink for the “birthday child”, and there is also a “book to go” for everyone on the way home that evening.
Before that, Judith W. Taschler, who was born in Upper Austria and winner of the Friedrich Glauser Prize, will read from her current novel “We’ll talk about Carl tomorrow”.
Source: Nachrichten
