For years, Lilo Wanders - both celebrated and controversial alike - talked on television about True Love (in the German programme Wa(h)re Liebe which dealt with erotica). This is a good enough reason to read and speak about love now “live and in colour”.

London, 1678. The Royal Society appoints the Swedish professor Simon Chrysander curator of its natural history collection. Always on the run from chaos, Chrysander orders his world according to the laws of mathematics. For Lord Fearnall, by comparison, the world is a stage. This eccentric figure wends his way through the grandiose confusion of baroque London, driven by a diffuse yearning for a counterpart. And then Fearnall and Chrysander encounter one another ... Lilo Wanders reads from Christine Wunnicke‘s historical novel Die Kunst der Bestimmung (2003).

Lilo Wanders, “at any rate over thirty”, studied librarianship before her debut on the stage of the Schmidt Theater in St. Pauli (Hamburg). This was followed later by the legendary Schmidt Midnight Shows which were awarded the Grimme Prize. In summer 1994, Lilo Wanders first broadcast her television show on sex and erotica - Wa(h)re Liebe -  which went on to write ten years of television history.

Bettina Böttinger began her career at the regional daily newspaper Bonner Rundschau after studying German language and literature as well as history. 1993 saw the broadcast of her first talk show, B trifft… (B meets ...), for which she received two Grimme Prize nominations. In 1994 the journalist and producer set up her own production company Encanto. She has been presenting her weekly talk show Kölner Treff (Cologne Meeting) since 2006 on the German television station WDR and, since 2007, her fortnightly cultural programme west.art.