THOMAS MELLE: HOUSE OF THE SUN
ZDF proclaimed THOMAS MELLE a “genius”; newspaper Die Welt said his work was “approaching the stature of world literature”. His internationally acclaimed novel “The World at My Back” was a literary treatment of his life with bipolar disorder. Now, Melle’s HOUSE OF THE SUN moves between near fiction and autofiction and asks the really big questions: How much autonomy is possible when your life is controlled by a psychiatric illness? What do you long for when you have nothing left to lose? And what form might ultimate happiness take? Welcome to “House of the Sun”, an institution that is both a wish-fulfillment machine and an elimination mechanism. Host: TOBIAS RÜTHER
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Thomas Melle
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Tobias Rüther
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