Wednesday, 27 January 2010: A Day of Literary Entertainment with Dr. Angelika Overath, the German Writer in Residence at Newcastle University

3-6pm: Dada-Workshop

7-9pm: Bi-Lingual Reading

Location: Hatton Gallery, Quadrangle, Newcastle University

Dr. Angelika Overath, regular German Writer in Residence at Newcastle University, will first do a creative writing workshop based on the poems by Kurt Schwitters in front of the Merzbarn; in the evening, she will give a public reading from her new collection “Genies und ihre Geheimnisse”, together with Nicholas Johnston who translated some of these 'biographical brainteasers' into English as part of his MA in Professional Translation. The reading will be accompanied by a reception.

About the author: Dr Angelika Overath was born in Karlsruhe in 1957 and studied German, History and Italian at the University of Tübingen. While her husband, Prof. Manfred Koch, worked as a DAAD-Lektor in Thessaloniki, she worked in Greece as a freelance writer, returning to Tübingen in 1991; she now lives in Sent (Swizzerland [a collection of short stories ‘In den Bergen bleiben’ is forthcoming with Luchterhand]). Her PhD-thesis on " Das andere Blau, Zur Poetik im modernen Gedichte" published by Metzler won great critical acclaim. At the same time, she wrote reportages and essays for many of the major German magazines, among them GEO, Merian & Die Zeit. Angelika Overath is also well known for her features in SDR and SWF. Since 1997, she has been working as a literary critic for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, with a regular column on the dark side of renown artists (published as "Genies und ihre Geheimnisse"). She has been awarded various prizes, e.g. the "Egon Erwin Kisch" prize, the "Thadäus Troll" prize for her novel "Nahe Tage" and the "Ernst Willner" prize in the wake of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition. Her second novel was nominated for the ‘Deutsche Literaturpreis’ and shortlisted for the Swiss Literaturpreis. She regularly gives workshops in creative writing. She has worked as Writer in Residence at Queen Mary, London, and now comes for the fourth time as Writer in Residence at Newcastle University.

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More information on www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/german/ (including one of the ‘brainteasers’)

 

Prof. Henrike Lähnemann

Chair of German Studies, School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University, GB - NE1 7RU Newcastle upon Tyne
Tel.: 0044 191 2227513, email: [log in to unmask]
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