At the end of 2017, the complete literary works of Conrad Ferdinand Meyer were available, edited as a Buch UND Hörbuch in twelve handsome cassettes. Some of the most prominent German-speaking actors and speakers recorded his poems and novellas, and well-known writers paid tribute to his work.
Reason enough to celebrate:
The event was moderated by Manfred Papst. Iso Camartin lectured on C. F. Meyer's work and Frank Arnold read Meyer’s heart-warming novella, The Shot from the Pulpit. No wonder that the fatal “shot”, which nevertheless delivers a happy ending, actually went off in the pulpit.
Link zum Video der C. F. Meyer-Feier
William Shakespeare's contemporaries valued his 154 sonnets even more than his plays. According to the opinion of the time, they made the dramatist into a poet.
The publisher thought that the most convincing complete translation of this cosmos about love in all its facets was that of Stefan George, who has a special position both in terms of linguistic beauty and precision of translation.
The publication of the audio book was crowned by a matinée on 15 April 2012 in the foyer of the Burgtheater in Vienna, at which the editor presented the edition and Peter Matić read from the sonnets.
