Leise rieselt der Schnee …
('Snow falls over the trees …')
Stories at Christmas time
'Well, Christmas really is quite nice, after all!' – Kurt Tucholsky
'It's snowing, it's snowing, there's no beginning and no end to it. There isn't a sky anymore, everything is grey, white snowfall. There's also no longer any air, it is full of snow. There is also no longer a ground, it is covered in snow and yet more snow.' Yes – those were the days, when we had proper winters, way back when – and many people look back wistfully to the times evoked by Robert Walser, when the magic of snowfall began during the Advent season, at the latest, and we had a white Christmas, with frost flowers on the windows and frozen lakes.
However, even without snow, Christmas is still a festive time of wonder, joy and peace on earth for many. We delve into magical wintertime fairy tales, sit down at tables laid festively for Christmas dinner and listen to the gloriously bizarre story of an adventurous Christmas Eve with Caroline Peters and Snow falls over the trees..., her selection of stories about the festive season.
Caroline Peters is not only a member of the company of the Burgtheater in Vienna, but also at home on the great stages of the German-speaking countries. She has played the Paramour in Jedermann at the Salzburg Festival. Her role as the inspector in the TV crime series Homicide Hills has made her a star; at the cinema, she starred in the successful comedies How About Adolf?, Family Affairs and, most recently, The Intangible Joy of Love. She has won the Grimme-Preis television award and Austria's Nestroy theatre prize and has twice been voted 'Actress of the Year'. Her celebrated debut novel Ein anderes Leben was published in the autumn of 2024.
