Dear colleagues,
Daniela Danz, our current Writer in Residence, will read on Monday the 23rd of October 2017 some of her poems as well as an extract from her latest novel "Lange Fluchten".
Venue: Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Campus, Lock-keeper’s Cottage, Steiner Room (327 Mile End Road, London E1 4NS)
The reading will be in German and English. Everyone is welcome! Feel free to bring other interested parties.
Danz has written poetry, prose, essays and children’s literature. Besides that she collaborates with composers; a number of her works have been set to music, as well as translated into other languages. In her work she experiments with classical forms and antique subject-matter, such as the epics of Homer or the Ovid’s Metamorphoses. From here, Danz seeks to make connections with recent history, such as World War II and with current socio-political concerns like migration.
A similar approach can be found in her most recent novel, too, which is inspired by the legend of the Roman general and hunter St. Eustace. Danz’s protagonist, Cons, has the feeling that everything around him is strangely far away, even though, at first glance, all appears to be fine. He lives on a plot of land, together with his wife and two sons. However, the word »together« cannot really be used to describe it: once upon a time they wanted to build a house, but now they are still living in two temporary containers on two levels - Cons downstairs, his wife and children upstairs. Something inside Cons seems to have broken; since he experienced a »lapse« during an exercise as a regular soldier, which he can only vaguely remember, it is as though he has fallen out of the world. Yes, the world has become lost to him.
The author and the members of the German Department of the Queen Mary University of London will be happy to welcome you.
Kind regards
Jana Riedel and Ingrid Kutz
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