An evening of conversation between Peter Pannke and Sandip Roy
Peter Pannke
Peter Pannke is a singer, dreamer and storyteller born in Germany in 1946. He studied Sinology, Indology, Comparative Religions and Musicology in Hamburg, Marburg, Munich, Cambridge and Benares. Based on Dhrupad studies with the Mallick Family he created his own style of singing which combined Blues, Sufi Hymns and Troubadour songs. His band “Troubadours United” was featured in the ARTE Documentary “Road of the Troubadours”. Extended research led him to India, Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, Ethiopia, Mali and Morocco before he settled down in Berlin and became a well-known broadcaster and curator of the festivals “Parampara” and “Pakistani Soul” at the House of World Cultures, Berlin. His books include "Saints and Singers - Sufi Music in the Indus Valley" (Oxford University Press, Karachi 2013), “Dream Talker - Songs, Poems, Essays" (Daastaan, New Delhi 2010) and "Singers Die Twice - A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad" (Seagull Books, Kolkata 2013). Presently he is preparing the “Morungen Songbook” of the poet/singer Heinrich von Morungen who is said to have travelled to India in the 12th century. 2009 he received the Rabindranath Tagore-Award, 2019 he was awarded a Senior Research Fellowship by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations.
Sandip Roy
Sandip Roy is a writer, radio host and columnist in Kolkata. His work has appeared in the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, The Times of India, Firstpost and other publications. His audio dispatch from Kolkata airs weekly on public radio in San Francisco. He is a columnist for Mint Lounge and hosts the Sandip Roy Show on Audio Express. His award-winning first novel is ‘Don’t Let Him Know’.
The conversation was broadcast live on the Facebook page of the Goethe-Institut Kolkata on 01.04.2022.
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Enjoy the reading of excerpts from the book 'Singers Die Twice' by Peter Pannke performed by Naveen Kishore in English.
© Naveen Kishore
A theatre practitioner by heart,
Naveen Kishore is the founder and managing director of Seagull Books in Kolkata, India
Enjoy the reading of excerpts from the book 'Singers Die Twice' by Peter Pannke performed by the author himself in German.
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