Literature – event archive
Thursday 22 May – Tuesday 1 June, 2008
Hay on Wye
Daniel Kehlmann at the Guardian Hay Festival
The Austrian author Daniel Kehlmann will take part in this year’s annual literature festival in Hay on Wye. Kehlmann (b.1975) lives and works in Vienna. He was the recipient of the 2005 Candide Award and is best known for his widely acclaimed novel Measuring the World.
For tickets and more information visit: www.hayfestival.com/
Venue and Information
Hay on Wye
Thursday 13 December 2007, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Was steuert die Ameisen? Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte
Reading with Norbert Silberbauer
Norbert Silberbauer, born in 1959, lives and works in Lower Austria. A very versatile writer, he has published prose, poetry and plays. On his story ‘Was steuert die Ameisen’ he notes: “Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens Christmas Carol is considered the epitome of the miser in literature - quite wrongly, I say. Why should someone, as asked for on moral grounds in Dickens’s text, give away his money, overheat the office and pay more to the employee? And why is someone experiencing such a lot of disrespect, just because he doesn’t like Christmas?
Entry is free, but reservation is essential!
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Tuesday 30 October 2007, 7 pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Sissi Tax, Reading
Sissi Tax, born in 1954 in Styria, lives in Berlin since 1982. Her prose collections include ‘manchmal immer’ (1995), for which she was awarded the Holfeld-Tunzer-Preis in 2001, ‘je nachdem’ (2001), and ‘und so fort’ (2007). Her study ‘Marieluise Fleißer: Schreiben, Überleben. Ein biographischer Versuch’ was published in 1984. Together with Oskar Pastior she translated Gertrude Stein’s ‘A Book Concluding With As a Wife Has a Cow’ (1987). In her prose, Sissi Tax successfully defies any classification, wittily and playfully interweaving writing, language, and life.
Entry is free, but reservation is essential!
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Friday 22 – Wednesday 27 June 2007
University of East Anglia, Norwich
Lilian Faschinger at
New Writing Worlds 3: Exile and Imagination
Austrian writer Lilian Faschinger will participate in New Writing Worlds 2007, a six-day celebration of international writing. Based around a Literary Salon of acclaimed writers from the UK and other countries, NWW 07 offers a unique set of events: a fabulous Sunday afternoon of World Literature in Bishop’s Garden, Ian McEwan presenting the annual RSA Lecture, and a debate on the future of books and writers in the digital age.
Venue and Information
University of East Anglia, Norwich
www.newwritingpartnership.org.uk
Tuesday 15 May 2007, 7pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
“mighty are you dark mouth…”
Poems by Georg Trakl, read by Dagmar Schwarz — music for harp, played by Monika Stadler.
Admired by Rilke, Kafka, Kraus and Wittgenstein, Georg Trakl’s poems count among the literary masterpieces of early modernism. Dagmar Schwarz’s work as actress encompasses theatre (with directors such as Giorgio Strehler, George Tabori, Karl Heinz Hackl and Fernando Arrabal) as well as film and television. In her compositions and performances, award-winning harpist Monika Stadler combines elements of classical, jazz, and improvisational music.
Admission is free, but reservation is essential.
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Tuesday 24 April 2007, 7 pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Alfred Kolleritsch, book launch and reading
Alfred Kolleritsch has been one of the most influential novelists and poets on the Austrian literary scene in the last few decades. An early member of the Forum Stadtpark in Graz, he was its president from 1968 to 1995. In 1960 he established the literary magazine manuskripte. His work includes the novels Die Pfirsichtöter (1972) and Allemann (1989), and the poetry collections Gegenwege (1991) and Befreiung des Empfindens (2004). Apart from his reading at the Austrian Cultural Forum, Kolleritsch will give a seminar at the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre (see p.10).
The Austrian Cultural Forum celebrates the first English-language survey of Alfred Kolleritsch’s poetry, translated from German by Iain Galbraith and published by Shearsman Books, in the presence of the author and the translator, who will read from the texts. The book’s cover features a painting by Hartmut Urban (1941–1997), a friend and, on many occasions, artistic partner of Kolleritsch. In conjunction with the reading, ACF will, for the first time in the UK, present a selection of Urban’s works.
* Entry is free, but reservation is essential
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Tuesday 27 March 2007, 7.30pm
Goethe-Institut London
European Voices 2007 – Hana Androniková
The aim of this successful series, now in its third year, is to reflect on the legacies of European history in the work of contemporary European, and in particular Jewish writers. The series started in 2004 with German speaking writers. Since then it has expanded to include France in 2005 and, for the first time, the Czech Republic in 2007. European Voices 2007 was created by the London Jewish Cultural Centre, and is produced in association the Austrian Cultural Forum London, the Goethe-Institut, and the Czech Centre.
£8, £20 for 3 events (All bookings through the London Jewish Cultural Centre’s office)
For tickets, please contact LJCC
Venue and Information
Goethe-Institut London
50 Princes Gate Exhibition Road
London SW7 2PH
T: 020 8457 5000
E: events@ljcc.org.uk
Thursday 15 March 2007, 7.30pm
Goethe-Institute, London
European Voices 2007 – Raphael Seligman
The aim of this successful series, now in its third year, is to reflect on the legacies of European history in the work of contemporary European, and in particular Jewish writers. The series started in 2004 with German speaking writers. Since then it has expanded to include France in 2005 and, for the first time, the Czech Republic in 2007. European Voices 2007 was created by the London Jewish Cultural Centre, and is produced in association the Austrian Cultural Forum London, the Goethe-Institut, and the Czech Centre.
Venue and Information
Goethe-Institute, London
50 Princes Gate Exhibition Road
London SW7 2PH
Tuesday 12 March 2007, 7 pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Rüdiger Görner, Poetry
In England, where Rüdiger Görner lives since many years, he is known as a distinguished German literature scholar and essayist. Görner’s poetic work has been published in Austria and Germany where it was received with great acclaim. Long overdue, this evening is dedicated to Rüdiger Görner’s poetry, read by the author.
* Entry is free, but reservation is essential.
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Thursday 8 March 2007, 7.30pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
European Voices 2007 – Eva Menasse
The aim of this successful series, now in its third year, is to reflect on the legacies of European history in the work of contemporary European, and in particular Jewish writers. The series started in 2004 with German speaking writers. Since then it has expanded to include France in 2005 and, for the first time, the Czech Republic in 2007. European Voices 2007 was created by the London Jewish Cultural Centre, and is produced in association the Austrian Cultural Forum London, the Goethe-Institut, and the Czech Centre.