BOOK CLUB @ GOETHE-INSTITUT IRLAND

Author Renate Ahrens will read from her novel and discuss with participants.

Wed, 09.03.2022
6:30 PM Goethe-Institut Irland

Title: Schicksalsfreundin by Renate Ahrens – the author will read and discuss with the participants.

You love reading and discussing books written in German?

Our book club focuses on exploring the work of acclaimed German-language authors.

The titles are usually works by contemporary authors and are not always available in English translation. A classic might be found on the list, too.

The Book Club is free of charge and meets once a month on the second Wednesday at 6.30pm. Participants either buy the title themselves, or borrow them from our library or the eLibrary (Onleihe). The language for discussion is German.
 
Contact 
If you have any questions or would like to register for the book club, please send an email to library-dublin@goethe.de.

Following Dates and Titles:
13 April - Kurt Tucholsky Schloss Gripsholm
11 May  - Dörte Hansen Mittagsstunde
13 June - Katharina Greve Die letzten 23 Tage der Plüm (Graphik Novel)

Renate Ahrens

Renate Ahrens, born in 1955 in Herford, Germany, studied English and French at the universities of Marburg, Lille and Hamburg, and worked as a teacher for a few years. She moved to Dublin in 1986, where her husband became professor of history at Trinity College. Since then she has been a freelance writer. She publishes in German and English, at first mainly texts for German children's radio, scripts for children's television, and a radio play for RTE. She has written many children’s books, several stage plays for adults, among them When the Wall Came Down, which had its world premiere in Dublin in 1998, and a large number of novels. Fremde Schwestern, published in 2011, made her known to a wider audience. Many of her novels and children’s books contain Irish-German elements. Her work has received several awards. Reading tours have taken her through Germany, Ireland, Switzerland and the USA. She lived in Cape Town in 1996-97 and in Rome in 2002-03. In summer 2019 she and her husband left Ireland and returned to Hamburg. Renate Ahrens is a member of the PEN Centre of German-Speaking Writers Abroad.
For more information about the work by Renate Ahrens see: www.renate-ahrens.de