To Effi Briest in Rheinsberg

A really good weekend should definitely start with a highlight on Friday evening. But if you want to top this dramaturgy, you can start the fun on Friday at noon. But where to?

There’s a nice answer for next Friday if you’re a cinema, history, literature and Fontane fan – or if you just meet one of the four requirements. Because the Schlosstheater Rheinsberg invites you to the last episode of its four-part Effi Briest film series on November 15th.

This is not about the last, but rather the first film adaptation of the novel directed by Gustav Gründgens (1939). Before the film “A Step from the Way” is shown, the stage belongs to the film from 7 p.m Berlin film critic Knut Elstermann (“Kino King Kurt”), who has moderated the other three Effi Briest cinema evenings since April.

Elstermann invited an extraordinary Fontane expert to the last episode: the literary scholar Gabriele Radecke knows his work so well because she works at the University of Göttingen the writer’s 67 notebooks edited. In addition, Radecke continuously publishes through Fontane, which has not changed since she took over the management of the literary archive of the Academy of Arts in Berlin in 2020.

If you’re wondering why this weekend trip should start at noon when the film evening with “Kino King” Elstermann doesn’t start until 7 p.m., you could get the newly published booklet “Fontanes Rheinsberg” (Bebra Verlag, 80 pages, 10 €) . It was written by Radecke’s husband, the well-known Berlin educator, presenter and Fontane expert Robert Radecke-Rauh.

Because Radecke-Rauh is using the new “Mini” series from the Bebra publishing house for a little detour from Rheinsberg to Köpernitz, just six kilometers away.

…. and a detour to Princess Goldhair

Thanks to the memories of its most famous resident, Karoline del la Roche-Aymon (1770–1859), the manor house there, which is maintained as a “culture house”, has so much charm that you should approach Rheinsberg from here – just like Karoline , alias “Princess Goldhair,” did when she was expected at Prince Henry’s court with her French marquis.

But that’s another story again. If you want to enjoy it in peace, you could even start the weekend on Thursday evening – on the sofa with the volume about Fontane’s “Wundersame Frauen”, which Radecke and Radecke-Rauh published in 2019 at Manesse.