Martin Suter - Wut und Liebe – Premierentournee 2025

"Anger and love"

New novel and stage premieres with: Martin Suter, Katja Riemann, Caroline Peters, Bettina Rust, Linda Zervakis, Nora Zukker and Dirk Stermann.

Martin Suter's new novel "Wut und Liebe" (Diogenes Verlag) will be published on April 23, 2025 - a subtle, precisely composed work about emotional dependency, moral boundaries and the desire to reclaim one's own life.

The subsequent premiere tour is a double premiere for the grand seigneur of German-language novelists: For the first time, he will be on stage together with a selected ensemble - and will bring a version of one of his works to the stage that has been specially developed for this tour, devised by dramaturge Joachim Lux. As part of this journey through Switzerland, Austria and Germany, the audience will encounter Martin Suter in a new, polyphonic form - literary, dialogical and scenically condensed.

At the author's side - depending on the evening - are outstanding personalities from the worlds of drama and culture: Caroline Peters, multi-award-winning theater and film actress (including Burgtheater Vienna, Mord mit Aussicht), and Katja Riemann, known from numerous cinema and television productions (Fack ju Göhte, Der bewegte Mann, Die Apothekerin) - both successful authors in their own right - will take turns reading from the novel with Martin Suter. Renowned journalists and presenters such as Bettina Rust, Linda Zervakis, Nora Zukker and Dirk Stermann - one of Austria's best-known cultural mediators (Willkommen Österreich) - will moderate the discussion in the second part of the evening.
"Anger and Love" tells the story of Noah, an artist in his early thirties, whose girlfriend Camilla breaks up with him - out of common sense. Her salary is barely enough for two, her dreams call for more. Noah wants to win her back - whatever the cost. When an older lady offers him a dubious but promising path to money, he is faced with a decision that challenges both his moral convictions and his idea of love. Following the popular success of "Melody" (over 400,000 copies sold), Martin Suter's "Wut & Liebe" is at the height of his creativity - narratively precise, contemporary and yet timeless. The staged reading with accompanying discussion is not just a showcase of his work, but an invitation to an encounter - between author, ensemble and audience.
An evening of rare intensity - literary, sensual and special in every respect.

Martin Suter

Martin Suter was born in Zurich in 1948. His novels (including "Melody" and "The Last Weynfeldt") and the "Business Class Stories" are also huge international successes. Since 2011, the gentleman crook Allmen has also been solving his cases in his own crime series, with seven volumes currently available. In 2022, André Schäfer's feature film "All about Martin Suter. Except the Truth" premiered at the Locarno Film Festival. The author has been running the website martin-suter.com for several years. He lives with his daughter in Zurich.

Caroline Peters

Caroline Peters, born in 1971, is one of the most important German actresses. After studying acting at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Saarbrücken, she was a member of the ensemble at the most important theaters, including the Berlin Schaubühne and the Vienna Burgtheater. Caroline Peters has appeared in numerous film and television productions, including the ARD series "Mord mit Aussicht" and Sönke Wortmann's "Der Vorname", and has received numerous awards, including the Adolf Grimme Prize, the Bavarian Television Prize, the German Acting Prize and the Nestroy Theater Prize. In 2016 and 2018, she was voted Actress of the Year by the magazine "Theater heute".

Dirk Stermann

Born in Duisburg in 1965, has lived in Vienna since 1987. He is one of Austria's most popular cabaret artists and TV presenters and is also well known in Germany for his TV and radio shows, films and stage programs with Christoph Grissemann as the Stermann & Grissemann duo. Since May 2007, he has co-hosted the weekly late night show "Willkommen Österreich". With his novels "Sechs Österreicher unter den ersten fünf" (2010), "Stoß im Himmel" (2013), "Der Junge bekommt das Gute zuletzt" (2016), "Der Hammer" (2019) and "Maksym" (2022), Dirk Stermann has successfully joined the ranks of German-language fiction authors. In 2016, Die Welt wrote: "A funny German media star who should be taken very seriously as an Austrian novelist." His new novel "Mir geht's gut, wenn nicht heute, dann morgen" about the psychoanalyst Erika Freeman was published in October 2023.