Authors' reading of the literary scene South Hesse on August 19 in the Rosengarten gallery
In the series of literary scene in South Hesse, the literary initiative in the Darmstadt Kulturstäuken you to an author reading with Frank Schuster on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 at 7 p.m. The event takes place in the gallery of the Rosengarten restaurant , Frankfurter Straße 79. Admission is free, donations are welcome.
Frank Schuster presents his new novel “Büchner Sixty-Nine” , which was published in 2025 in Frankfurter Mainbook Verlag. The work is based on true events and illuminates a largely forgotten chapter of Darmstadt contemporary history.
Protests, educators and parallels to today
The focus is on the "case of Lüdde" : the dismissal of a Frankfurt apo teacher from the Georg Büchner School in Darmstadt in 1969. Schuster's novel takes up the social upheaval of that time-as a student in Darmstadt, the young revolutionary Georg Büchner, protested against outdated pedagogical structures and demanded an examination of the Nazi era.
The action combines real events with fictional figures , based on conversations with contemporary witnesses and extensive archive research. Frank Schuster succeeds in bringing the atmosphere of an eventful era to live and parallels to today's youth protests .
About the author
Frank Schuster, born in 1969, lives in Darmstadt and works as an editor at the "Darmstadt Echo". He is a member of the South Hessian literary group Poseidon and studied German studies, English, musicology and art history in Frankfurt, Marburg and Oxford. His most recent publications at Mainbook Verlag include the climate thriller "Odenwald" (2023) and the dystopia "Star Feed" (2018). Further information offers your website at www.frankschuster.blog .
(Red/Marcel Mandel)
