Above the Clouds – Jo Lendle Following in the Footsteps of Aviation Pioneer Amelia Earhart

What better place could there be for a reading from this wonderful novel than the airfield in Unterschüpf? In the hangar, surrounded by airplanes, Amelia takes to the skies. Jo Lendle is not only the publisher of the Munich Hanser Verlag, but he also writes truly wonderful novels, most recently about the American aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart: We fly with Amelia high above the ocean on July 2, 1937, in her Lockheed Electra, during her attempt to be the first person to circumnavigate the globe. Jo Lendle portrays her as a heroine who does not want to be a heroine. Amelia flies, she writes, she advocates for women – a role model. Yet she struggles with all these labels. So she takes off and leaves everything behind, without compromise. "The Directions" is a portrait of a brave, charismatic, headstrong woman. And it is a love story with changing participants – some surprising, others fleeting like summer clouds. What better place could there be for a reading from this wonderful novel than the airfield in Unterschüpf? In the hangar, surrounded by airplanes, Amelia takes to the skies. (And who knows, perhaps not just Amelia!) With the support of LSV Bauland e.V.