> A Reading by Esther Dischereit (in German and English)
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> Visiting Writer at the Centre for Contemporary German Literature,
> University of Wales Swansea
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> Monday 28 July 2003, 3.00pm
> Room 431, Keir Hardie Building
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> Esther Dischereit is a prolific writer of poems, novels, plays and essays
> who has played a prominent literary and cultural role in Germany since the
> 1980s. Her groundbreaking first novel Joëmis Tisch (Joëmi's Table, 1988)
> explored questions of Jewish and German identity from the perspective of
> women living in the shadow of the Holocaust. The reading will include
> extracts from this, as well as a number of her other works, including her
> most recent collection of essays, Mit Eichmann an der Börse: In jüdischen
> und anderen Angelegenheiten (At the Stock Exchange with Eichmann: On
> Jewish and Other Matters), which appeared in 2001.
>
> Esther Dischereit will read both in German and in English translation.
>
> All welcome
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> Dr. Katharina Hall
> Department of German
> University of Wales Swansea
> Singleton Park
> Swansea SA2 8PP
> Tel. 01792 205678 Ext. 4882
> email: [log in to unmask]
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