Above the Clouds – Jo Lendle on the trail of aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart

What better place to read 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 Munich-based Hanser Verlag. He also writes 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, as she attempts to become the first person to circumnavigate the globe. Jo Lende portrays her as a heroine who does not want to be a heroine. Amelia flies, she writes, she campaigns for women's rights – she is a role model. But she struggles with all the attributions. So she takes off and leaves everything behind, without compromise. Die Himmelsrichtungen (The Points of the Compass) is the portrait of a courageous, charismatic, headstrong woman. And it is a love story with changing participants – some astonishing, others fleeting like summer clouds. What better place 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, maybe not just Amelia!) With the support of LSV Bauland e.V.