The Divan Sessions: The West-Eastern Divan
Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan, the poet’s personal attempt to broaden European horizons by exploring the concept of the Other and creating a poetic dialogue between East and West, marks its 200th anniversary this year.
Goethe expert
Jan Wagner, Persian academic
Narguess Farzad and poet
Robin Robertson are joined by Haus Publishing’s
Barbara Schwepcke to discuss this classic text and a specially commissioned series of new poems, translations and essays.
In 1971
Jan Wagner was born in Hamburg, Germany, and currently lives in Berlin. He studied English and American studies at Hamburg University and at Trinity College Dublin. A literary critic and translator, he is the author of the poetry collections
Probebohrung im Himmel (2001);
Guerickes Sperling (2004);
Achtzehn Pasteten (2007);
Australien (2010);
Die Eulenhasser in den Hallenhäusern (2012) and the anthology
Selbstporträt mit Bienenschwarm (2016). In 2017, he published his newest collection of essays
Der verschlossene Raum. In 2017, he received the
Georg-Büchner Prize.
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