Name: Writers Who Read: The Director - Daniel Kehlmann (trans. Ross Benjamin)
Start: 2026-04-05T14:30:00-06:00
End: 2026-04-05T16:30:00-06:00

April's hybrid meeting—IN PERSON at the **Boulder Library Main Branch second floor Flatirons Meeting Room** & ONLINE (see link when you register)—is *The Director* by Daniel Kehlmann (Germany, trans. Ross Benjamin, 2025) on Sunday starting at 2:30 pm (for 2 hours).

The influential Austrian film director G W Pabst discovered Louise Brooks and Leni Riefenstahl, worked with Greta Garbo and Kurt Weill, and moved to Hollywood in the 1930s. Unfortunately, just as WWII began he returned to Austria to care for his ailing mother, trapping Pabst and his family in Nazi Germany and turning him into a tool of the Reich. The stark soundstage, dark shadows, and sharp camera angles of Expressionist cinema infuse Kehlmann's novel, translated from the German, chilling our bones with the horror of seeing precisely how totalitarianism breaks us.

We ask that all attendees read the entire book in advance of the meeting. More information about other Writers Who Read meetings and our **WwR Podcast** can be found at: https://WritersWhoRead.com

Gary McBride

Boulder Writers Alliance Meetup

Technology

Writing

Technical Writers

Blogging

Graphic Design

Instructional Design

E-Learning

Web Design

UX Design

Photography

Videography

Training and Coaching

Editing

Social Media Marketing

Writers Who Read: The Director - Daniel Kehlmann (trans. Ross Benjamin)

Book Club

Literature

Novel Reading

Self-Development Tools

Boulder Public Library - Main Library

Share

Boulder Writers Alliance Meetup

Writers Who Read: The Director - Daniel Kehlmann (trans. Ross Benjamin)

Boulder Writers Alliance Meetup

Details

Members are also interested in