Reading Session & Conversation with Krisha Kops
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.
About the Author:
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Krisha Kops studied philosophy (BA) and journalism (MA) at London and Westminster University, before receiving a Ph.D. in intercultural philosophy from the the University of Hildesheim. He wrote his dissertation about the modern philosophical receptions of the Bhagavad Gītā in Germany and India.
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)
About the Moderator:
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Dr. Swati Acharya has been working at the German Studies Department since 1998. She became an Associate Professor in 2018 and has been the Head of the Department since 2019. In 2002, she received her PhD from JNU, New Delhi on "Film as Text: Alterity and the Discourse of Colonialism in the Films of Werner Herzog with Prof. Anil Bhatti. She was in Germany for various research stays as a DAAD scholar and in 2015-18. She was at the University of Tübingen and FU, Berlin on a research fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Numerous editions were published on different research topics such as German-language contemporary literature, gender in literature, post-colonial literature, migration in film and literature, representation of India in German-language literature, film didactics.
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)
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