INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study * University of London
Monday, 25 February 2019, 6 pm
Venue: Room G34, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Barbara Honigmann and Judith Köhler
This Encounter features Barbara Honigmann who will read from Georg, in which she tells her father's story (Hanser: January 2019), and Judith Köhler, a graphic designer/translator who is currently translating passages from the novel.
Barbara Honigmann holds a special place among the German-Language language writers of the post-war generation. The daughter of German-Jewish exiles to Britain, Honigmann was born in 1949 in East Berlin. She began her career as a theatre director and writer in the GDR and, in 1984, moved to Strasburg, where she continues to write in German. In multi-layered, autobiographically inspired books she engages with the complex subjectivity of her Jewishness, her rootedness in German language and literature, and her life in France, as mother, artist, and member of various intersecting communities.
Judith Köhler, is a graphic designer, currently completing her second degree, in architecture, at the Technical University of Vienna. Brought up bilingually, she has extensive experience of working between German and English, and has recently translated a chapter of Eyal Weizmann's Forensic Architecture into German.
Attendance free. Advance online registration required.
>>> https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/19322
This event is sponsored by the Keith Spalding Trust. The Encounters series is organised in conjunction with the University of Nottingham
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