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7:00 PM, IST
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Reading Session & Discussion|Literary Crossroads
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Goethe-Cafe, 411001
- Language English
- Price Free Entry
11th February 2025 | Goethe Café, Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan Pune
19:00 hrs. | Veranstaltungsprache: English
No registration required | Open to all First come first serve basis.
Immerse yourself in an eventful evening of literary crossroads and meet the authors of ‘Verkin’ and ‘Die Endlose Stadt’ – Davind Wagner and Ulla Lenze.
The event will comprise of a combined session of reading & discussion about their books, and how there have been changes over the years due to urbanization. The event will be a literary reflection of urbanity and will trace the fabric through literary lenses.
About the Authors:
David Wagner, born on April 17, 1971, in Andernach, Germany, is a renowned writer known for his novels, stories, poems, and experimental prose. Growing up in the Rhineland, Wagner studied literature and art history in Bonn, Paris, and Berlin and has lived in cities like Rome, Barcelona, and Mexico City. His debut novel, Meine nachtblaue Hose (2000), which explores his childhood in the 1970s and 80s, brought him recognition. He has since published several works, including Was alles fehlt (2002) and Four Apples (2009), the latter longlisted for the German Book Prize. Wagner's experience with autoimmune hepatitis and a liver transplant is poignantly captured in his book Leben (2013), which won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. A former contributor to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Zeit, he is also a member of PEN Centre Germany.Wagner currently lives in Berlin.
Ulla Lenze was born in 1973 in Mönchengladbach, Germany. She studied philosophy and music in Cologne and lives as a freelance writer in Buckow (Märkische Schweiz). She has received numerous awards for her novels, including the Ernst Willner Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition and the Literature Prize of the Cultural Circle of German Business for her novel Die endlose Stadt (The Endless City). Her novel Der Empfänger (The Radio Operator, 2020), translated into twelve languages, marked her international breakthrough. In 2023, Ulla Lenze held the prestigious Max Kade Visiting Professorship at Dartmouth College (USA). Her sixth novel, Das Wohlbefinden (Well-being), was nominated for the German Book Prize 2024.
About the Moderator:
The session will be moderated by Dr. Swati Acharya (Head of German Department, Savitribai Phule Pune University)
Dr. Swati Acharya has been working at the Department of German Studies since 1998. In 2002, she completed her PhD at JNU, New Delhi on the topic “Film as Text: Alterity and the Colonial Discourse in the Films of Werner Herzog under Prof. Anil Bhatti. Recently, she was elected as a new member of the Germany Academy for Language and Poetry.
19:00 hrs. | Veranstaltungsprache: English
No registration required | Open to all First come first serve basis.
Immerse yourself in an eventful evening of literary crossroads and meet the authors of ‘Verkin’ and ‘Die Endlose Stadt’ – Davind Wagner and Ulla Lenze.
The event will comprise of a combined session of reading & discussion about their books, and how there have been changes over the years due to urbanization. The event will be a literary reflection of urbanity and will trace the fabric through literary lenses.
About the Authors:
David Wagner, born on April 17, 1971, in Andernach, Germany, is a renowned writer known for his novels, stories, poems, and experimental prose. Growing up in the Rhineland, Wagner studied literature and art history in Bonn, Paris, and Berlin and has lived in cities like Rome, Barcelona, and Mexico City. His debut novel, Meine nachtblaue Hose (2000), which explores his childhood in the 1970s and 80s, brought him recognition. He has since published several works, including Was alles fehlt (2002) and Four Apples (2009), the latter longlisted for the German Book Prize. Wagner's experience with autoimmune hepatitis and a liver transplant is poignantly captured in his book Leben (2013), which won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. A former contributor to Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Die Zeit, he is also a member of PEN Centre Germany.Wagner currently lives in Berlin.
Ulla Lenze was born in 1973 in Mönchengladbach, Germany. She studied philosophy and music in Cologne and lives as a freelance writer in Buckow (Märkische Schweiz). She has received numerous awards for her novels, including the Ernst Willner Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition and the Literature Prize of the Cultural Circle of German Business for her novel Die endlose Stadt (The Endless City). Her novel Der Empfänger (The Radio Operator, 2020), translated into twelve languages, marked her international breakthrough. In 2023, Ulla Lenze held the prestigious Max Kade Visiting Professorship at Dartmouth College (USA). Her sixth novel, Das Wohlbefinden (Well-being), was nominated for the German Book Prize 2024.
About the Moderator:
The session will be moderated by Dr. Swati Acharya (Head of German Department, Savitribai Phule Pune University)
Dr. Swati Acharya has been working at the Department of German Studies since 1998. In 2002, she completed her PhD at JNU, New Delhi on the topic “Film as Text: Alterity and the Colonial Discourse in the Films of Werner Herzog under Prof. Anil Bhatti. Recently, she was elected as a new member of the Germany Academy for Language and Poetry.
Location
Goethe-Cafe
Goethe-Institut Pune
14/3-B
Boat Club Road
411001 Pune
India
Goethe-Institut Pune
14/3-B
Boat Club Road
411001 Pune
India
First-come-first-serve