Wedding Day - Charity Reading by Mandy Edelmann

In her book “Hochzeitstag” (Wedding Day), Mandy Edelmann shares her courageous testimony about what it feels like to accompany someone through dying. About what remains when everything falls apart. And about the strength to keep living anyway.

Thomas Mayer guides Mandy through this reading, from station to station, and Mandy responds with her words and with texts from her moving book “Hochzeitstag”.
Ultimately, there will also be space for personal conversations, questions, and simply to reflect together.

A wedding day that changes everything. Not with champagne and roses, but with her husband’s last breath.
Mandy Edelmann speaks with unsparing honesty about a life that is almost incomprehensible in all its beauty and brokenness, about her great love for Philipp,
their son Paul, who is born prematurely at 25 weeks of pregnancy and grows up with a disability – and about the diagnosis that changes everything in 2022:
advanced stomach cancer, metastases in the liver and lungs.

What follows is no ordinary farewell. It is a last year full of unforgettable moments, shared holidays, and the attempt to collect as many memories as possible.
But it is also an honest book about exhaustion, pain, and the shattering discovery after Philipp’s death, which calls everything into question once again.

It was Philipp’s heartfelt wish to see his son Paul provided for. The net proceeds from this reading will therefore go to his son, Paul.

We kindly request seat reservations, as seating is limited.

Hard facts
What: Charity reading from the book “Hochzeitstag” by Mandy Edelmann
When: Thursday, 22 October 2026
Entry: from 14:30 for a 15:00 start
from 17:30 for an 18:00 start
Where: Das Herzstück vom Petznek, Bruck/Leitha
Admission: a donation for Paul Edelmann is requested

There are 35 seats – 18 with a table, 17 without a table – free choice of seats subject to availability. A seat is guaranteed with the purchase of a ticket.After purchase, you will receive an email with a link to the tickets, which you can print yourself or save to your mobile device.