With the reading “Facets of Love,” the popular speaker returns to the museum on Friday, June 26, at 4 p.m., after a three-year absence; during his 17 years there, he has already given 148 readings. As always, he will be accompanied on the piano by Ralph Petruschka.

Wolfram Huber takes the fact that love is arguably the most important and multifaceted theme of our lives as an opportunity to explore this topic from various perspectives, drawing on the works of many authors—sometimes in a lighthearted, sometimes in a serious, and sometimes in a passionate manner. The range of works spans from Erich Kästner, Eugen Roth, and Wilhelm Busch, through Stefan Zweig, Erich Fried, Else Lasker-Schüler, Marie Madeleine, Mascha Kaleko, and others, to Rainer Maria Rilke, the 100th anniversary of whose death we are commemorating this year. The program will also feature music by Emmerich Kálmán, Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, and others.

In the meantime, Wolfram Huber has completed his 1,200th evening and is looking forward to the three readings scheduled for this summer in Bad Ischl (Thu., July 23, and Sat., Sept. 5).