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Die Zeit: Strunk's Heidelberg and Köhlmeier's Coburg in Summer Literary Podcast
Die Zeit's literary podcast 'Was liest du gerade?' ('What are you reading right now?'), hosted by Iris Radisch and Adam Soboczynski, devotes its July 25, 2026 episode to summer novels set outside major German cities. The episode features Heinz Strunk's 'Memories of Heidelberg,' a tragicomic portrait of a middle-aged couple facing repeated humiliations aboard a Neckar riverboat restaurant, and Michael Köhlmeier's 'Mein privates Glück' ('My Private Happiness'), a childhood memoir set in Coburg during post-war Germany, releasing August 2026. The episode's 'Klassiker' (classic) segment spotlights Marie Luise Kaschnitz's short story 'Das dicke Kind.'