Hilmar Klute, editor of »Streiflicht« in the »Süddeutsche Zeitung« and author of various novels, studies, essays, and the Ringelnatz biography »War einmal ein Bumerang« [tr: Once Upon A Boomerang], talks about the art of writing. His debut novel »Was dann nachher so schön fliegt« [tr: What Then Flies so Beautifully
La Matosa is located in the middle of the Mexican countryside. Violence, prostitution, and drug trafficking shapes everyday life here. In a breathless style and with a language as raw as that of the protagonists themselves, Fernanda Melchor describes life in this desolate place in her second novel, which was
Hilde Stark, a director and lecturer in acting and directing, has worked dramaturgically with Thomas Brasch for many years and has also staged theatre texts by Brasch, for instance with her students. In memory of his work, Hilde Stark now presents a scenic reading with Toni Jessen, Alexandra Gottschlich and
Javier Cercas is a critical observer of Catalonia’s political situation, which is made clear in his latest novels. He gives voice to the silent majority of Catalan civil society that does not identify with secessionist aspirations. The author analyzes independence as a product of populism and sees the future of
What are the connections between translation and violence? To what extent can translation be an instrument of oppression or, on the contrary, a means of deconstruction and liberation? Class violence, feminism, queerness, postcolonialism: what is at stake in translation? Translators and authors from French and German speaking countries in conversation.
A rocky island casts its shadow over the mainland and its inhabitants for centuries. Against this backdrop, Evie Wyld’s feminist ghost story, »The Bass Rock«, reveals a dark tale of several generations of women in distress and the strange happenings in a house on the Scottish coast. »Balancing a superbly
A 70-year-old writer suffering from cancer leaves his wife and Switzerland to write a new book in Berlin. In it, he wants to give new life to a character he let die in his previous novel. In his new novel, author Adolf Muschg, who was awarded the Swiss Grand Prix
Poet, artist, and philosophy lecturer Daniela Catrileo has been committed to Mapuche rights for years as a member of the feminist collective »Rangiñtulewfü«. Together with Toni Jensen, who belongs to the Métis and published a volume of memoir essays on indigenous women’s lives in 2020, she sheds light on the
Does the bioeconomy, which thrives on biological and renewable raw materials, represent an alternative to the fossil fuel economy and does it thus create a way out of the current climate crisis? In the closing panel of the series »Visions of Bioeconomy 2020/21«, different aspects of the bioeconomy will be
Mick and Gabriel are »Brothers«. But they don’t know each other or their father, who returned to Senegal after they were conceived. Jackie Thomae reads from her novel, which won the 2020 Düsseldorf Literature Prize, at the JVA for Women Lichtenberg. »How can you write about men so accurately and
In the midst of an eternal winter, Mila, her brother Oskar, and her sisters Sanna and Pipa live in a small cabin in the Eldbjørn forest. When Oskar disappears one morning, Mila and her sisters embark on a daring search. Written »with lyricism and bounce« [The Times], the book tells
Between 1770 and 1829, the standard five-volume ornithological work »Nederlandsche Vogelen«, illustrated with hand-painted copper engravings, was published in the Netherlands. For her reinterpretation of the book, published in 2013, Bibi Dumon Tak selected thirty birds, all of which can also be found in Germany, to present humourously in new
