Events

Printed Page: German Book Office - New York/
Events

Events

In collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and other partners in New York, the GBO arranges readings, discussions, and seminars.

March

Festival NEUE LITERATUR: New Literature from Austria, Germany, Switzerland and the United States
When?	March 7 - March 8 2010
Where?	Various locations (see below for details)
The annual Festival NEUE LITERATUR brings some of the best up and coming German-speaking authors to New York, where they will interact with well-known American writers in a series of conversations and readings. This year's edition of the festival focuses on the notion of mobility in today's increasingly globalized world. Whether depicting the struggle of establishing an identity in a new society, or the longing to leave behind small town surroundings, these nine authors will present unique and refreshing takes on ideas of mobility and the human experience. Schedule of Events: March 7 "Small Town" 12:00 - 2:00 PM Deutsches Haus, NYU, 42 Washington Mews Martin Becker, Lorenz Langenegger and Johny Wray in conversation Moderated by Daniela Strigl and Klaus Nuechtern Reading 6:00 - 8:00 PM Goethe Institut's Wyoming Building, 5 E 3rd Street Martin Becker, Lorenz Langenegger, Johny Wray, Jospeh O'Neill, Perikles Monioudis, Maria Cecilia Barbetta, Olga Flor and Julya Rabinowich ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- March 8 "A House is not a Home" 6:00 - 8:00 PM Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 E 52nd Street Rivka Galchen, Olga Flor and Julya Rabinowich in conversation Moderated by Daniela Strigl and Klaus Nuechtern "Up, Up and Away" 8:00 - 10:00 PM Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 E 52nd Street Joseph O'Neill, Maria Cecilia Barbetta and Perikles Monioudis in conversation Moderated by Daniela Strigl and Klaus Nuechtern ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Festival NEUE LITERATUR is a collaboration between Deutsches Haus NYU, the German Consulate, the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Swiss Embassy and the German Book Office NY. For more information, please contact participating institutions.

November

Next Steps for Digital Globalization: Selling and Buying International E-Publishing and Digital Rights
When?	12 November 2009, 9.00 a.m.
Where?	The Levin Institute 116 E. 55th Street New York, NY 10022
The purpose of this management seminar is to provide an overview of selling rights for digital and online publishing or selling digital content in the international markets. It will present a review of emerging new technologies that have taken place and how they will impact the publishing industry in selling international English language, translation and adaptation rights for digital and online publishing. The implementation of information services, digital publishing and related new media business models have evolved rapidly over the past five years. Directly related will be the sale and purchase of digital text, images, video and music. The seminar will cover the key operating strategies with actual examples for how publishers are repositioning their present print content or starting new ventures to develop e-products and/or e-services to generate profitable new sources of income and growth in different international markets. The current methods of selling rights by print book and magazine publishers will be covered as the Internet reaches a global audience for products and services. There will be nine guest speakers from the publishing industry to provide both a wide range of practical experiences as well as a structured approach to how to sell rights or licenses for the new digital technologies that are changing all aspects of publishing. For more information visit: Levin Institute

The Wall in my Head Reading and Q&A
When?	10 November 2009, 7.00 p.m.
Where?	Idlewild Books 12 W. 19th Street New York, NY
Words without Borders will host a short reading followed by a discussion and Q&A, featuring a group of writers from its new anthology The Wall in My Head and from its November issue on German writing from the years after 1989. The readers will include Dorota Maslowska (Poland), the author of Snow White and Russian Red, and winner of the Nike prize; Dan Sociu(Romania), the author of Urbancholia; Masha Gessen (Russia), author of Ester and Ruzya: How my Grandmothers Survived Hitler’s War and Stalin’s Peace; and Kathrin Aehnlich (Germany), author of Alle Sterben, auch Die Loeffelstoere. The event will be moderated by Eliot Borenstein, Chair of the Department of Russian and Slavic Studies at New York University, and the author of Overkill: Sex and Violence in Contemporary Russian Popular Culture. The panelists will discuss their contributions to the WWB anthology and issue, the relevance of the events of 1989 to today’s world, the role of literature and culture in bringing down the Iron Curtain, and what the fall of the wall has meant for writers in the former Eastern Bloc. This event is cosponsored by the Open Letter Books, the Polish Cultural Institute in New York, the Romanian Cultural Institute, the Goethe-Institut. For more information, please visit the Words Without Borders website at Words Without Borders Events

September 2009

The GBO Recommends: Hape Kerkeling Introduces His Bestselling Book I'm Off Then
When?	Tuesday, 1 September 2009 – 6.30 p.m. Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street, New York Wednesday, 2 September 2009 – 7.00 p.m. Temple University, Philadelphia, PA Thursday, 3 September 2009 – 7.00 p.m. Carl Schurz Auditorium, German Embassy, Washington, D.C.
	Free admission
I'm off then, was all Hape Kerkeling told his friends before picking up a bright red rucksack, tightening up his boots and leaving for a 500 mile trek along the Camino De Santiago to follow in the footsteps of generations of pilgrims. Germany's most successful comedian lost and found himself on that hike also keeping a diary. When it was published, it became the best selling German book in many years, and tens of thousands are now following after him, making the journey from the Pyrenees to Santiago de Compostela. I'm off then, translated by Shelley Frisch, is now available in English and Hape Kerkeling will introduce the book at an exclusive event illustrated with the epic slides of German travel photographer Roland Marske. Meet the author after the reading at a reception at Deutsches Haus at NYU (42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003). More information at www.germanparadenyc.org www.nyu.edu/deutscheshaus

July 2009

Readings by thriller writers Sebastian Fitzek and Karen Dionne
When?	Thursday, 9 July 2009 7.00 p.m. – 8.30 p.m.
Where?	Housing Works Bookstore Cafe 126 Crosby Street (South of Houston Street)
Thriller writers Sebastian Fitzek and Karen Dionne will read from their most recent works and discuss thrillers and thriller writing. Sebastian Fitzek Sebastian Fitzek is the head of entertainment at a popular Berlin radio station. Therapy is his first thriller. It was an overwhelming success in Germany and has been translated into twenty-two languages. Fitzek is also the author of Mindbreaker, Amok, and The Child. He lives in Berlin with his girlfriend and several animals. Visit his Web site at www.sebastianfitzek.de. Karen Dionne Karen Dionne, who the author of the thriller Freezing Point. Karen is a member of Sisters in Crime, the Mystery Writers of America, and the International Thriller Writers, where she serves as Debut Author Committee Chair. She and her husband live in Detroit’s northern suburbs. Freezing Point is her first novel and was published by Jove in 2008. Visit her Web site at www.karendionne.net.

April 2009

German-language Writers at the PEN Festival
When?	29 April 2009 - 3 May 2009
Where?	Various Locations
The Fifth Annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature Features Nine German-language Writers For the fifth time, 160 writers from around the world will gather in New York to engage in conversations, readings, and performances. This year, World Voices, will take up the theme of Evolution/Revolution, and writers will consider how the world changes and how we change. Contemporary German-language literature is represented by nine authors from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland: Lilian Faschinger, Norbert Gstrein, Fritz Kater, Uwe Kolbe, Clemens Meyer, Kathrin Röggla, Antje Strubel, Peter Weber, and Uljana Wolf. More relevant information on these writers can be obtained on the specially set-up mini-site, as well as in the brochure Appetizers from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland jointly produced by the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York, the Deutsches Haus at NYU, the Consulate General of Germany in New York, the German Book Office, and the Goethe-Institut New York. The brochure offers an entertaining take on the writers’ national cuisines and samples from their work. Thursday, 30 April 2009 Global Voices When? 1.00 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. Where? Instituto Cervantes New York, 211- 215 East 49th Street Participants: Salwa Al Neimi, Joseph Boyden, Lilian Faschinger, Clemens Meyer, and Peter Weber. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Instituto Cervantes, the Consulate General of Spain. Working for the Weekend: Modern Day Salarymen When? 4.30 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Where? Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street Participants: Kathrin Röggla and Yoshihiro Tatsumi. Free and open to the public. However, reservations are required. Please call ACF’s reservation line at 212.319.5300 (ext. 222) or email reservations@acfny.org. Cosponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum. Kafka in America When? 6.30 p.m. - 8.00 p.m. Where? Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street Participants: Louis Begley, Norbert Gstrein, Mark Harman, Lynne Tillman, and Colm Tóibín. Moderated by Jonathan Taylor. Free and open to the public. However, reservations are required. Please call ACF’s reservation line at 212.319.5300 (ext. 222) or email reservations@acfny.org. Cosponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum. Quiet Revolutions in Storytelling When? 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. Where? Instituto Cervantes New York, 211–215 East 49th Street Participants: Wafaa Bilal, Philip Gourevitch, Kathrin Röggla, and Josep-Maria Terricabras. Moderated by Sameer Padania. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Instituto Cervantes and the Consulate General of Spain. Friday, 1 May 2009 Garden Reading When? 12.30 p.m. - 2 .00 p.m. Where? Deutsches Haus NYU, 42 Washington Mews Participants: Laila Lalami, Morten Ramsland, Bernard Comment and Peter Weber. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Deutsches Haus at NYU. Left/Right Literature: The Politics of Taking Up the Pen When? 1.00 p.m. - 2 .30 p.m. Where? Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue Participants: Nadeem Aslam, Norbert Gstrein, Mariken Jongman, and Domenico Starnone. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the American-Scandinavian Foundation. Discovering Unbearable Truths When? 5.00 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Where? Austrian Cultural Forum, 11 East 52nd Street Participants: Uwe Kolbe and Uljana Wolf. Moderated by Susan Bernofsky. Free and open to the public. However, reservations are required. Please call ACF’s reservation line at 212.319.5300 (ext. 222) or email reservations@acfny.org. Cosponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum. The Language of Fear: A PEN America Event When? 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. Where? Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue Participants: Guillermo Fadanelli, Wayne Koestenbaum, Colum McCann, Kathrin Röggla, and Anya Ulinich. Moderated by Jeffrey Lependorf. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY. On the Edge: Writing in Reunified Germany When? 6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. Where? Deutsches Haus NYU, 42 Washington Mews Participants: Clemens Meyer and Antje Ravic Strubel. Moderated by Zaia Alexander. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Deutsches Haus at NYU. Poetry Reading When? 7.00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Where? Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery Street Participants: Nicole Brossard, Narcis Comadira, Wayne Koestenbaum, Uwe Kolbe, Fuad Rivka, and Janos Terey. $10/$5 PEN members at the door. Armin Petras: We Are Camera When? 8.00 p.m. Where? CUNY Graduate Center, Martin E. Segal Theater, 365 Fifth Avenue Participants: Armin Petras and Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Saturday, 2 May 2009 East-West Storytelling When? 4.30 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. Where? Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue Participants: Nadeem Aslam, Nam Le, Fuad Rifka, and Antje Rávic Strubel. Moderated by John Freeman. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by Granta and the Martin E. Segal Theatre, The Graduate Center, CUNY. Sunday, 3 May 2009 The Pan-European Picnic Redux When? 1.00 p.m. Where? Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park in DUMBO, 26 New Dock Street, Brooklyn Participants: Michael R. Meyer, Eszter Babarczy. Free and open to the public. Check the PEN website for more details. Is Nonfiction Literature? When? 3.00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Where? Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, Edmond J. Safra Plaza, 36 Battery Place Participants: Colum McCann, Philip Gourevitch, Norbert Gstrein, and Dava Sobel. Tickets: $15/$10 Museum of Jewish Heritage and PEN members www.smarttix.com or 212.868.4444

March 2009

Every Man Dies Alone: The Search for Hans Fallada
When?	3 March 2009, 7.00 p.m.
Where?	Deutsches Haus at NYU, 42 Washington Mews, New York, NY 10003
To celebrate publication of the first ever English translation of Every Man Dies Alone, join Publisher Dennis Johnson and Hans Fallada's son, Ulrich Ditzen at NYU's Deutsches Haus, for a discussion led by Eric Banks. For more information, please visit the Melville House Website at Every Man Dies Alone.

Print Send the page Top Back