Literaturlenz
March 3, 2016
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Literaturlenz: New Literature in German
With Readings by:
Christopher Kloeble (novelist, playwright, scriptwriter) born in Munich/Germany, studied in Dublin, at the German Creative Writing Program Leipzig and at the University for Film and Television in Munich. He has written for the Suddeutsche Zeitung, DIE ZEIT and tageszeitung. His plays U-Turn and Memory have been staged at major theatres in Vienna, Munich, Heidelberg and Nuremberg. For his first novel Amongst Loners he won the Juergen Ponto-Stiftung prize for best debut 2008; his second book A Knock at the Door was published in 2009. The third, Almost Everything Very Fast, appeared in March 2012. His first film script, Inclusion, was produced in 2011 and nominated for the Prix Europa 2012 for Best Movie Script. He lives in Berlin and Delhi.
Sibylle Berg was born and grew up in Weimar, East Germany in a jewish family. In 1984, after a number of her close friends were detained by the Stasi, she fled to the West. Her first novel, Ein paar Leute suchen das Gluck und lachen sich tot [A Couple of People Search for Happiness and Die Laughing,] appeared in 1997 to huge acclaim, selling over 300 000 copies. To date, Sibylle Berg has published 19 novels and 18 plays. Her plays have been translated into sixteen languages, including Chinese, French, Greek, Italian, Korean and Polish. Reviewers compare her work to that of Brett Easton Ellis, Michel Houellebecq, David Sedaris and Will Self. She is married and lives in Zurich, Switzerland. Sibylle Berg will read from Thank You For This Life.
Vea Kaiser was born in 1988 and studied Ancient Greek in Vienna. Her debut novel Blasmusikpop was honored in 2013 as the best German-language debut at the International Festival du Premier Roman in Chambery and nominated for the Aspekte Literature Prize. She was a writer in residence at Bowling Green State University in the summer semester of 2014. That same year, she was named author of the year in Austria. Her latest novel, Makarionissi oder Die Inset der Seligen, was published in May 2015.
Reading will be in German (with English translation).
Light refreshments will be served.
Literaturlenz is a joint effort of the Goethe-Institut Chicago, the Embassy of Switzerland, and the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York.
Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Studies and the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics.
Date posted
Jun 11, 2020
Date updated
Jun 11, 2020