Christopher Kloeble : Schlagintweit Brothers

Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Kolkata and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies cordially invite you to a literary evening with German novelist Christopher Kloeble, on Monday, 18 September 2017, at 6 pm, at Maulana Azad Museum, Kolkata.

Christopher Kloeble is visiting India, in particular Kolkata to do research for his new novel on the Schlagintweit Brothers (Hermann, Adolf and Robert - orientalists, geographers and explorers), who, on suggestion of the great scholar Alexander von Humboldt, was assigned by “East Indian Company” to conduct a survey in India and high Asia. It was to serve as the accurate cartography of the country. Starting from Bombay they travelled through whole of India, from Leh to Madras; reached Calcutta and and from there to Darjeeling; and later travelled further to Assam, Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet and Turkistan during their explorations in 1854-57.

Christopher Kloeble’s presentation will focus on Schlagintweit Brothers explorations in India and Asia; and his new novel in relation to this historical episode.
 
Christopher Kloeble (b. 1982 in Munich) is a German novelist and scriptwriter. He was writer-in-residence at Cambridge University (UK), at the Goethe Institute in Bangalore (India), and Max Kade Visiting Professor at Dartmouth College (USA). His debut novel "Amongst Loners" won him the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Prize, and his first screenplay "Inclusion" received the Asia Pacific Broadcasting Prize. In 2012 he published the novel "Almost Everything Very Fast" in Germany, which was released in the US in February 2016. His first non-fiction book, „Home Made in India“, came out in 2017. He lives in Berlin and Delhi.