Literaturlenz – New Literature in German
March 5, 2014
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
With Readings by:
Olga Grjasnowa was born in 1984 in Baku, Azerbaijan, and has spent extended periods in Poland, Russia, and Israel. She moved to Germany at the age of eleven and is a graduate of the German institute for Literature/Creative Writing in Leipzig. She will read from her debut novel All Russians Love Birch Trees, for which she received a research grant from the Robert Bosch Foundation, the Kuhne Prize, and the Anna Seghers Prize. The novel was also was long-listed for the German Book Prize in 2012.
Richard Weihe is a freelance writer and professor of theater studies at the Scuola Teatro Dmitri in Ticino. He is also a guest lecturer at the Bauhaus University in Weimar. Born and raised in Switzerland, he studied at the Universities of Zurich, Bonn, and Oxford, where he completed his doctorate in Comparative Literature. He balances his scholarly research with creative pursuits. Along with studies of the theater and a cultural history of the mask, he has published three novels, a libretto, a radio play, and numerous translations. He has received several grants and awards, including the Prize of the Literary Commission Zurich, the Prix des Auditeurs de la Radio Suisse Romande, and the Kulturforderungsgabe/literature division of the Swiss Bank Cooperation UBS. Richard Weihe will read from Sea of Ink and Ocean of Milk.
Born in Eisenkappel/Zelezna Kapla (Austria), Maja Haderlap studied Theatre and German Literature at the University of Vienna. From 1992 to 2007 she was Head of Dramaturgy at the Municipal Theatre of Klagenfurt, and she holds annual classes at the Institute for Applied Cultural Sciences at the Alpen Adria University in Klagenfurt. Since 2008 she has lived and worked as a freelance author in Klagenfurt. She has published several volumes of poetry and essays in Slovenian and German, and translations from Slovenian. She won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for an excerpt from her first novel, The Angel of Oblivion. She has also received many other awards including the Bruno Kreisky Prize, the Rauriser Literature Prize, and the Vincenz Rizzi Prize.
Readings will be in German (with English translation).
Light refreshments will be served.
Literaturlenz is a joint effort of the Goethe-Institut Chicago, the Consulate General of Switzerland in Chicago and the Consulate General of Austria.
Sponsored by the Department of Germanic Studies, the Jewish Studies Program, and the School of Literatures, Cultural Studies and Linguistics
Date posted
Jun 8, 2020
Date updated
Jun 8, 2020