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German-language Writers at the PEN Festival

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.

For further information, please contact Hannah Johnson at the German Book Office.

List of Events

Thursday April 30th, 2009

Global Voices
When? 1- 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 - 6 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 - 8 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 - 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 May 1st, 2009

Garden Reading
When? 12:30 - 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 - 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 - 6 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 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 May 2nd, 2009

East-West Storytelling
When? 4:30 - 6 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 May 3rd, 2009

The Pan-European Picnic Redux
When? 1 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 - 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
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