As part of the 2018-2019 initiative "Year of German-American Friendship (Deutschlandjahr)," encompassed by the motto #WunderbarTogether, the Goethe-Institut Washington, the Goethe-Institut Washington invites you to an author talk and reading with
Theresia Enzensberger. This engagement is part of the BOOKS FIRST program, which seeks to bring awareness of German-language literature to the English-speaking world. It also is part of our celebration of the 100-year birthday of Bauhaus.
Theresia Enzensberger was born in 1986 in Munich and now lives in Berlin. She studied film at Bard College in New York and works as a freelance journalist for publications including the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
Zeit Online,
Krautreporter and
Monopol. In 2014 she founded the award-winning
BLOCK magazine.
Blueprint (Blaupause) is her first novel about the young and inquisitive Luise Schilling, who arrives at Weimar's Bauhaus University at the beginning of the turbulent twenties. She takes classes with professors such as Gropius and Kandinsky and throws herself into the dreams and ideas of her epoch. From technology to art, communism to the avant-garde, populism to the youth movement, Luise encounters the social utopias that still shape us to the present day. She has ambitions of achieving a great deal in life - but little of it has to do with paying homage to great men.
Theresia Enzensberger:
Blaupause, Carl Hanser Verlag, 2017 -
Blueprint, Dialogue Books, 2019. Translated by Lucy Renner Jones.
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