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From:                   Dr G Paul <[log in to unmask]>

For your information, there will be two readings of interest to
Germanists in this term's 'Writers at Warwick' programme.

On Mon. 26 February, this year's DAAD writer-in-residence in the
German department at Warwick, Albert Ostermaier, will be reading
from recent lyric texts, together with the musician Bert Wrede and
Georgina Paul as translator.  The venue is the Conference Room in
the University of Warwick Arts Centre, and the performance starts
at 7.15pm (admission free).

On Tues. 6 March, Austrian poets Raoul Schrott and Evelyn Schlag
will be appearing at the Warwick Arts Centre (same venue,
Conference Room, same time, 7.15pm, admission free) as one leg
of a national tour. They will be appearing with translators Iain
Galbraith and Karen Leeder, again the reading will be in English and
German.

Attached [below] is a little more blurb for those interested.

During his stay as writer-in-residence, Albert Ostermaier will be
leading some seminar sessions in the department - on
contemporary drama (he is Intendant of the Residenztheater in
Munich and one of Germany's up-and-coming young dramatists),
and on contemporary lyric, including his own. Please contact me,
Georgina Paul, at the address below, if you would like further details.

Georgina
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Dr Georgina Paul,
Dept. of German Studies,
University of Warwick,
GB - Coventry CV4 7AL

Tel: (0)24 - 7652 4481 (direct)
       (0)24 - 7652 4419 (Dept. Secretary)
Fax: (0)24 - 7652 8173
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German Writers at Warwick

Conference Room
Mon 26 Feb 7.15pm
Admission free

Albert Ostermaier

Writer-in-residence in the Department of German Studies at
Warwick during February 2001, Albert Ostermaier is among
Germany's up-and-coming literary talents: a dramatist and poet in
the tradition of Bertolt Brecht and Ernst Toller, and currently director-
in-charge of the Residenztheater in Munich. He came to public
attention in 1995 with an experimental radio play on the last half-
hour in the life of the radical left-wing dramatist Ernst Toller, who
committed suicide in 1939 in despair over the Nazi regime's hold on
power. His lyric work, betraying influences as wide-ranging as
Brecht, Jimi Hendrix and Tom Waits, has been described in the
German press as 'a surprise attack on the conventions of our
feelings, simultaneously ruthless and tender'.

He is introduced by Georgina Paul from the Department of German
Studies. The reading will be in German and English.


Conference Room
Tues 6 March 7.15pm
Admission free

Raoul Schrott & Evelyn Schlag

Two of Austria's leading young poets come to Warwick as part of an
Arts Council funded national tour of Britain. Raoul Schrott became
an overnight sensation on the German literary scene following the
1997 publication of Die Erfindung der Poesie: Gedichte aus den
ersten vier tausend Jahren (The Invention of Poesy: Poems from the
First Four Thousand Years), adaptations of poems from languages
as diverse as Sumerian, Welsh, Breton and Assyrian. His own prize-
winning work includes the collections Hotels (1995) and Tropen
(Tropes/ Tropics) (1998), and a version of Euripides' Bacchae
produced at the Vienna Burgtheater in 1999. He appears with
Evelyn Schlag, novelist, essayist, lyric poet, and the translator into
German of Douglas Dunn and John Burnside.

The authors are accompanied on the tour by two leading British
translators of contemporary German lyric: Iain Galbraith and Karen
Leeder. Readings will be in German and English.