ARTE literature tips
As part of its membership in the network of literature houses with ARTE as a cultural partner, the Literaturhaus recommends the following monthly programs in the ARTE media library.
Literature on ARTE May 2025
Literature on ARTE
ARTE - the cultural partner of literaturhaus.net - presents in June
Friday, June 6, 2 p.m. and until June 24 on arte.tv
The Buddenbrooks
Literary adaptation, Germany 2008
Lübeck, 19th century: Jean (Armin Mueller-Stahl) and Bethsy (Iris Berben) Buddenbrook belong to a merchant family that has earned its wealth for generations through the grain trade. The children's lives are predetermined. The sons are to become merchants, daughter Tony (Jessica Schwarz) is to marry in keeping with her station. This is what tradition dictates - but times have changed.
Sunday, June 8, 8:15 p.m.
Barry Lyndon
Literary adaptation, GB 1975
Ireland, 18th century: Deserter, gambler, aristocratic upstart - Redmond Barry has many identities. However, his rapid rise is soon followed by a deep fall. Stanley Kubrick's opulent epic tells the story of a young man who maneuvers himself into a desolate situation through his love drunkenness and develops from a romantic crush to an ignorant husband. The four-time Oscar-winning film also pays homage to the beauty of baroque painting and music.
Monday, June 9, 10:15 p.m. and until June 6 on arte.tv
Eight Mountains
Literary adaptation, B/F/I 2022
Italy, 1984: Eleven-year-old Pietro spends a vacation in a village with his mother and befriends Bruno. 20 years later, an inheritance brings the two together again. Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch transform Paolo Cognetti's original into a visual epic that won the Jury Prize in Cannes in 2022.
Program subject to change.