Where do you come from, actually? A question not particularly popular among people with migration biographies, which is still frequently asked despite all the discourses on the subject.
Goethe-Institut Max Mueller Bhavan Pune in collaboration with the Department of Foreign Languages (Savitribai Phule Pune University - SPPU) is organizing a reading and subsequent conversation with the Munich philosopher and author of German-Indian roots - Krisha Kops,who responds to this in his debut novel "Das ewige Rausche (The Eternal Noise)" by making a virtue out of necessity.
About the book "Das ewige Rauschen (The Eternal Noise)":
A sparkling German Indian family story.
A banyan tree stands firmly in the ground. The winds blow through its leaves and aerial roots. They tell him the story of Abbayi and his German Indian family. They tell of a girl who is born on the Baltic Sea and moves through Germany with her family during the post-war period. About an Indian farmer who sings for his tomato plants and for his two wives. About a fortune seeker for whom the world is too small for his ideas and who leaves his homeland. About a woman who falls in love with the stranger, and finally about a young man who will spend his life moving between worlds.
The Eternal Noise' is a great and lively novel about the questions of who we are, where we put down roots - and what we need to do so.
In creative writing, Krisha Kops has won the U20 Poetry Slam Championship (of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland) in 2005. His first novel, “Das ewige Rauschen” was published in March 2022 and won the Bayerischer Kunstförderpreis (2022). For his next novel project he received the Schreibzeit scholarship (2022) from the Niedersachsen Stiftung and the Arbeitsstipendien des Freistaats Bayern für Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftsteller (2022)
When: 08.03.2023, 15:30 h - 17:30 h
Venue: Seminar Hall, Dept of Foreign Languages, Ranade Institute,Pune
Language level: B2.2+
Entry free with prior registration. (Registration until 05.03.2023 | 17:00)
