Reading by Eugen Ruge followed by Discussion with Wolfgang Emmerich
October 7, 2013
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Eugen Ruge was born in the Urals, studied mathematics in Berlin, and became a member of the research staff at the Central Institute for Geophysics in Potsdam. Before leaving the GDR for the West in 1988 he was a writer, contributing to documentaries made at the state-owned DEFA Studios. Since 1989 he has been writing and translating for theaters and broadcasters, and he teaches periodically at the Berlin University of the Arts. He was honored with the Alfred Döblin Prize in 2009 for his then still unpublished first work of prose, In Times of Fading Light, which won the German Book Prize in 2011, was a best seller in Germany, and has been translated into fifteen languages.
The reading will be moderated by Wolfgang Emmerich, Max Kade Visiting Professor at UIC.
Date posted
Jun 5, 2020
Date updated
Jun 5, 2020