When does Here comes the night take place?

The event takes place on Wednesday, November 18, 2026, from 8:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m.

Where does the reading take place?

The venue is the Galeriehaus at Sophienberg 28, 95028 Hof.

Which authors are performing?

The program features Lucas Fassnacht, Fabian Lenthe, and Sanjina Kashikar. The evening is complemented by a talk with Roland Spranger and Thomas Kastura.

What works will be read?

Lucas Fassnacht reads from Pipeline, Fabian Lenthe from Streichhölzer, and Sanjina Kashikar from Rattenkönig.

Is there music at the event?

Yes. Vincent Babl accompanies the evening with atmospheric Cinematic Folk music for acoustic guitar, synthesizer, loops, and electronic soundscapes.

What is the cost of admission?

Admission follows the principle of pay what you think it’s worth. Visitors determine their contribution themselves.

Lucas Fassnacht reads in Hof 2026

Name: The Dark Side: Here comes the night
Start: 2026-11-18T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2026-11-18T23:00:00+01:00
Location: Galeriehaus

When the night tells its darkest stories

On November 18, 2026, the gallery house in Hof transforms into a resonant space for thrillers, poetry, prose, and atmospheric music. Under the title Here comes the night, the reading festival THE DARK SIDE opens an evening filled with literary tension, linguistic density, and cinematic soundscapes.

Thrillers between Climate Crisis and Corruption

Lucas Fassnacht reads from his thriller Pipeline, a timely story about climate crisis, power, and a dangerous truth. The plot takes place in the heat of southern France and combines socio-political urgency with the dynamics of a page-turner. Fassnacht, who grew up in Tanzania and now lives in Nuremberg, is also known as a committed literature mediator. In 2022, he received the culture award of the city of Nuremberg, and in 2024 the literature promotion award of the city of Ansbach. His novel Die Innere Führung was on the crime bestseller list of Deutschlandfunk Kultur for months.

Poems as Small Embers

Fabian Lenthe brings poetry to the stage with Streichhölzer, which refuses quick effects. His poems navigate between urban perception, inner density, and the tradition of poètes maudits as well as American underground. Lenthe has published several poetry collections and received the Bavarian Art Promotion Prize for Literature in 2024. His language preserves sparks that do not extinguish immediately but continue to resonate as sustainable poetic tension.

morbidity, Obsession, and the Boundary to Fiction

Sanjina Kashikar reads from Rattenkönig. In the autumn forest, Noel and Aliéna get caught in a whirlpool of love, murder, and obsession, as the boundaries between reality and invention increasingly blur. Kashikar studied Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism at the Literature Institute of the University of Hildesheim, publishes prose and poetry, and is a co-founder of the experimental reading series AnArCHiEN. Her narrative combines psychological tension with a morbid, opulent imagery.

Cinematic Folk as Sound Space

Vincent Babl accompanies the literary voices with Cinematic Folk. He expands his acoustic guitar with synthesizers, loops, echo, and modulation into a physically tangible sound instrument. Between ambient, pop, and world music, cinematic spaces emerge, where melodic clarity and electronic expansiveness meet. The music adds an additional sensuous layer to the reading atmosphere.

Discussion on Crime and Literary Dramaturgy

In the talk, Roland Spranger and Thomas Kastura meet. Spranger was awarded the Friedrich-Glauser Prize for his thriller Kriegsgebiete and featured on the crime bestseller list with Tiefenscharf. Kastura works as an author for Bavarian Broadcasting and also received the Friedrich-Glauser Prize. The conversation enhances the evening with insights into genre, narrative technique, and the literary quality of contemporary crime literature.

A Literary Experience at the Galeriehaus Hof

The event combines reading, poetry, music, and discussion into an enjoyable evening for literature lovers. Admission follows the principle of “pay what you think it’s worth.” This creates an open cultural format that brings together diverse voices of contemporary literature and illuminates the dark sides of human experience from various perspectives.

Those who want to experience literature not only as reading but as an author encounter, voice, and immediate sound event will find an extraordinary evening at Here comes the night. The gallery house will become the stage for a night where tension, language art, and music intertwine.