Patrick Bahners, the New York correspondent of the Frankfurter
Allgemeine Zeitung, will be speaking in Cambridge at 4.30pm on Friday 14
February as a guest of the Department of German and Dutch.
The venue is Lecture Room 2, Lecture Block, Sidgwick Site, Cambridge,
and the talk will be followed by a small reception.
Patrick Bahners is well known for his engagement with key issues in
German history and the way they are discussed in our time. Among his
important publications is the book "Die Panikmacher – Die deutsche Angst
vor dem Islam", which appeared in 2011.
The subject of his talk on 14 February will be the author Sibylle
Lewitscharoff, who won the Georg Büchner Prize in 2013, and her recent
novel "Blumenberg" (2011) – a highly entertaining anti-campus novel that
engages wittily with the work of the philosopher and cultural theorist
Hans Blumenberg.
Visitors will be very welcome at the lecture.
David Midgley
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David Midgley
Professor of German Literature and Intellectual History
St John's College
Cambridge CB2 1TP
Tel. 1223 338779
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