"Open houses in Bonn, for literary readings"

Deutsche Telekom has its headquarters in Bonn, and it opens its doors, in many different ways, to the people of the Bonn region.

Deutsche Telekom participates in the festival – and does so completely in keeping with the spirit implied by the festival's name. The festival features readings from literary works, presented in Bonn by well-known actors and by a variety of authors. The event has a special charm in that the readings take place in unusual venues, such as private homes, doctor's offices, furniture stores and fashion shops. As one might expect, many of the venues are opened to the public only for the festival.

The Telekom Design Gallery, the "future forum" showcase at Deutsche Telekom's headquarters, has been among the venues for "Open houses in Bonn, for literary readings" several times. In 2015, for example, actor Daniel Lommatzsch read there from the German translation of Joshua Cohen's Four New Messages. That work, about the radical changes the Internet has been bringing to our lives, was a fitting choice for the Design Gallery, in which Deutsche Telekom experts think about telecommunications and our digital future. Deutsche Telekom opened its doors for the event for the first time in 2014. At that premiere, actor Ben Becker held over 300 Telekom Forum guests spellbound with a reading from John Griesemer's Signal & Noise, about the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable (from Europe to the U.S.) and about the early days of telecommunications. "Life is for sharing" is Deutsche Telekom's brand promise, and the company's participation in "Open houses in Bonn, for literary readings" certainly does justice to that promise. Literature connects people – to other people (including hosts), to places and to important topics. "Open houses in Bonn, for literary readings" has become another important part of Deutsche Telekom's social and cultural involvement in Bonn, its home city.