FESTIVAL NEUE LITERATUR | PANEL REINVENTING THE PAST SATURDAY FEB 11, 06:00 PM |
The Festival Neue Literatur 2012 brings six of the best up-and-coming German-language authors to NewYork, where they join well-known American writers in a series of conversations and readings. This year, two authors each from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland will join two American authors over the weekend of February 10-12. Unless otherwise indicated, all events will be in English, and are free and open to the public.
Literature is often a delving into the past, made all but involuntary because the past has returned to haunt the present. Whether the history in question is familial, political or ancient, traces of old trauma can cast the present in a new light. This panel, which will feature authors Chris Adrian, Catalin Dorian Florescu, Inka Parei and Linda Stift in conversation with Susan Bernofsky, explores the different ways in which the past can be put to work in the name of storytelling.
Other events:
> SUNDAY FEB 12, 12:00 PM | Frühschoppen Literary Brunch
> SUNDAY FEB 12, 06:00 PM | Panel: Writing on the Margins / Literature between Cultures
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
Susan Bernofsky, acclaimed translator and curator of the Festival Neue Literatur 2012, chose six exceptional German-language authors for this year’s festivities. The 2012 participants are: Larissa Boehning (Germany), Monica Cantieni (Switzerland), Catalin Dorian Florescu (Switzerland), Erwin Uhrmann (Austria), Inka Parei (Germany), and Linda Stift (Austria).
For the third year in a row, the Festival Neue Literatur will bring six of the most respected authors of the contemporary German-language literary scene to New York City. Festival Neue Literatur continues to be the premier platform for presenting the work and capabilities of its selected German-language authors. In a series of events participants will meet New York authors as well as the literary critic Liesl Schillinger for talks and discussions.
The festival is a collaboration between the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, the Deutsches Haus at NYU, the Deutsches Haus at Columbia University, the German Book Office NY, the German Consulate General in New York, the Goethe-Institut NY and Pro Helvetia.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Chris Adrian is the author of three novels, Gob's Grief, The Children's Hospital, and The Great Night, and A Better Angel, a collection of stories. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Esquire, and other magazines, and he has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He is currently the David S. Ferriero Fellow at The Cullman Center for Scholar's and Writers at The New York Public Library.
Catalin Dorian Florescu, born in 1967 in Timisoara, Romania, fled with his parents to Zurich in 1982. He studied psychology and psychopathology at the University in Zurich, later working as a psychotherapist for drug addicts. Florescu published his first book in 2001. Since 2001 Florescu has written several essays, stories and novels and has received a number of literature prizes and scholarships, e.g. the Adelbert von Chamisso Prize in 2002, the Anna Seghers Prize in 2003 and the 2012 Eichendorff Literary Award. His featured novel Jakob beschliesst zu lieben (Jacob decides to love) was shortlisted for the 2011 Swiss Book Prize.
Inka Parei, born in Frankfurt am Main in 1967, lives in Berlin. Her first two novels, Die Schattenboxerin and Was Dunkelheit war, have been translated into French, Spanish, Swedish, Polish and Chinese, among other languages. In 2011 Seagull Books published Die Schattenboxerin as The Shadow-Boxing Woman, and will publish her new novel, Die Kältezentrale, as The Cold Room, with both titles translated by Katy Derbyshire. In 2000 Inka Parei was awarded the Hans Erich Nossack Prize and in 2003 she received the Bachmann Prize.
Linda Stift, born 1969 in Austria, studied German literature at the University of Vienna. Stift currently lives and works in Vienna as a freelance writer for publications such as the Wiener Zeitung, and has published numerous works in magazines and anthologies. In 2007 she was awarded the Alfred Gesswein Literaturpreis and in 2009 was nominated for the prestigious Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. Past works include Kingpeng, her debut novel, and Stierhunger. Her most recent work Kein einziger Tag (Not a Single Day) was published in 2011.
VENUE
Powerhouse Arena
37 Main Street
11201 Brooklyn
Free admission, no reservations required.
