Reading by Bert Wagendorp

Moderation: Rikarde Riedesel

"Bart is a journalist, loves bicycle races and is almost 50 years old as his childhood friends André, Joost and David turned up again in his life - and with them the sum-mer of 1982. A summer where all fell in love with beautiful Laura, a summer with great emotions – and a deadly accident at Mont Ventoux. The friends were 18 years old as they drove up the legendary stage of the Tour de France with five people – and came back with four. And all of a sudden all their dreams were over. And Laura, who travelled with them to the Provence, went missing without a trace. Thirty years later, in the summer of 2010, Laura wants to meet those men again at Ventoux. She wants to talk about what really happened at that time. And the friends accept her invitation: their racing cycles on the car top, their stuff in the trailer and many ques-tions on the back seat."

Bert Wagendorp is a famous author and sports journalist in the Netherlands. His novel "Ventoux” has already been filmed. Now his first book is available in German language. The sports background of the novel fits to the venue, the packaging halls for sports flooring of the Berleburger Schaumstoffwerke.

Location:
BSW Berleburger Schaumstoffwerk GmbH,
Am Hilgenacker 24

Monday, 24th of October 2016

Beginning:
8 pm

Admission:
5,- € / 2,- €

Bert Wagendorp

Bert Wagendorp, born in 1956, is a columnist for the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant and for a Flemish daily paper. He reported about the Tour de France between 1989 and 1994 among other things. In addition he was a co-founder of the literary bicycle race magazine De Muur. Ventoux was a great surprising bestseller of the last years in Holland. The book was made into a successful film in the Netherlands.

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