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From: "Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes Dublin" <[log in to unmask]>
New Writing in German
Literary Festival
Thursday, 28, until Saturday, 30 November 2002
in Dublin and Galway
Who are the young German language writers? What are the concerns of
writers from Berlin, Hamburg and Zurich? You will have a chance to
find out when the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes presents five German-
language authors to Irish audiences over three days, with bilingual
events in Galway and Dublin. The writers involved are Berlin-based
Tanja Dückers, Sherko Fatah and Antje Ravic Strubel, Peter Weber from
Zurich and Joachim Helfer, who is based in Hamburg. They will be
joined by Hugo Hamilton, who has recently returned from a sojourn in
Berlin and Jamie O'Neill, whose novel "At Swim Two Boys" has just
been translated into German by Hans-Christian Oeser.
Thursday, 28 November 2002, 7.00 pm
Galway Arts Centre, 47 Dominick Street, Galway
Reading with Joachim Helfer, Jamie O'Neill, Peter Weber
Host: Eoin Bourke, NUI Galway
Joachim Helfer was born in 1964 in Bonn, grew up in Frankfurt and
studied in Hamburg. His first novel "Du Idiot" was published by Piper
Verlag of Munich in 1994 and he followed this with "Cohn und König"
(Suhrkamp) in 1998, for which he won both the BDA Literature Prize
and the Hamburg Writers' Union Prize.
Jamie O'Neill was brought up and educated in Dun Laoghaire, Co
Dublin. After many years in London, he has recently returned to
Ireland where he lives in Galway. "At Swim Two Boys", his warmly
received debut novel, was published by Scribner in 2001.
Peter Weber was born in 1968 in Wattwil, Switzerland and now lives in
Toggenburg and in Zurich. His first novel "Der Wettermacher" was
published in 1993 to considerable acclaim and won a number of
literary prizes. Peter Weber is recognised as one of the most
interesting new voices in Swiss writing.
Admission free
Friday, 29 November 2002, 10.00am-12.00noon
NUI Galway, German Department
Seminar with Joachim Helfer, Peter Weber
Host: Eoin Bourke, NUI Galway
Admission free
Friday, 29 November 2002, 3.00-5.00 pm
Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
Seminar with Tanja Dückers, Sherko Fatah, Antje Strubel
Host: Moray McGowan, Trinity College Dublin
Tanja Dückers was born in Berlin in 1968 and has lived in the US, the
Netherlands and Spain as well as Germany. She has worked for Deutsche
Welle TV, been a writer in residence in Pennsylvania, and now lives
in Barcelona and Berlin. Her published work in prose and poetry
includes "Morsezeichen" poetry and short prose, 1996, "Firemen"
poetry/prose, Berlin 1996, "Spielzone", novel, Berlin 1999, "Café
Brazil" and Tanja Dückers Poetry.
Sherko Fatah was born in East Berlin in 1964, the son of an Iraqi
Kurd father and a German mother. In 1975 he and his familiy left East
Germany for West Berlin, where he studied philosophy and art history.
Fatah's eagerly awaited first novel "Im Grenzland", 2001, won the
Aspekte Prize for the best prose debut in the German language in
2001.
Antje Ravic Strubel was born in 1974 in Potsdam. She studied American
language and literature, psychology and comparative literature in
Potsdam and at NYU. She worked as a lighting technician the the Wings
Theater in New York. "Offene Blende", her first novel, was published
by DTV Verlag of Munich. She lives in Potsdam and Berlin.
Admission: €5, conc. €2.50
Friday, 29 November 2002, 6.30 pm
Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes, 37 Merrion Square, Dublin 2
Reading with Tanja Dückers, Sherko Fatah, Hugo Hamilton, Antje
Strubel
Host: Hans-Christian Oeser
Hugo Hamilton grew up in Dublin where he was born of Irish/German
parentage. He is the author of five widely acclaimed novels, there of
which - "Surrogate City", "The Love Test" and "The Last Shot" - are
set in Germany. He has won many awards and has recently been living
in Berlin on a DAAD scholarship.
Admission free
Saturday, 30 November 2002, 3.00 pm
Irish Writers' Centre, 19 Parnell Square, Dublin 1
Reading with Sherko Fatah, Joachim Helfer, Jamie O'Neill, Peter Weber
Host: Peter Sirr, Irish Writers' Centre
Admission free
Presented by the Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes Dublin in association
with Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, Irish Writers' Centre, Trinity
College Dublin, Swiss Embassy and Pro Helvetia, Galway Arts Centre,
National University of Ireland, Galway
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