INSTITUTE OF MODERN LANGUAGES RESEARCH
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Thursday, 23 February 2017, 17:00
Barbara Honigmann in Conversation
with Robert Gillett
Born in East Berlin in 1949, Barbara Honigmann occupies a special position among the German-language writers of the post-war generation. The daughter of German-Jewish exiles to Britain, 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 such as the most recent Chronik meiner Strasse (2015), 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. Barbara Honigmann will discuss her work with Robert Gillett (QMUL) in English.
Venue: Room G35, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
This event is sponsored by the University of London Coffin Trust
Jane Lewin
IMLR Trusts Administrator/Events Manager
Institute of Modern Languages Research
University of London School of Advanced Study
Room 239, Senate House
Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU
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