Austrian Cultural Forum NYC

The annual Festival NEUE LITERATUR brings some of the best up and coming German-speaking authors to New York, where they encounter well-known American writers in a series of conversations and readings.
This year's edition of the festival centers on the notion of mobility in today's increasingly globalized world. Many authors in Europe and the United States share an immigrant back-ground and write in languages that are different from what they grew up with.
The "immigrant experience" has become a common theme in many recent books of contemporary fiction. However, mobility or the lack thereof is not only experienced by authors who have arrived and struggled to establish themselves and their identities in a new and often hostile society, but also by writers who are longing to move away from their small-town provincial surroundings but feel that they are stuck and cannot leave.
Contemporary fiction lets people move from one place to another or never at all, but it shows that ultimately, mobility is a concept of our mind.

A reading with Maria Cecilia Barbetta, Martin Becker, Lorenz Langenegger, Olga Flor, Julya Rabinowich, Perikles Monioudis, Rivka Galchen, Joseph O’Neill and John Wray, participants of the Festival NEUE LITERATUR that brings some of the best up and coming German-speaking authors to New York where they encounter well-known American writers in a series of conversations and readings.

The Festival NEUE LITERATUR is organized by the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, the German Consulate General in New York, the German Book Office, the Goethe-Institut New York, and Deutsches Haus at NYU.