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SUMMARY:WORKSHOP | READINGS AND ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS  Festival NEUE LITERATUR | New Writing in German
DESCRIPTION:The second annual Festival NEUE LITERATUR brings six of the best up-and-coming German-language authors to New York, where they join well-known American writers in a series of conversations and readings. This year, two authors each from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland will join two American authors over the weekend of February 11-13. All events are free and open to the public.\nAuthors from Austria\nAndrea Winkler\nAndrea Grill\nAuthors from Germany\nJulia Schoch\nAntje Ravic Strubel\nAuthors from Switzerland\nPeter Weber\nDorothee Elmiger\nThe festival starts off at Yale University with six German-language authors, who will read from and discuss their recent work. An afternoon workshop in German, from 1:30 to 5:15pm, will focus on the technical aspects of each author’s style and concerns. A reading and round table in English, from 5:30 to 7pm, will address the current German-language literary landscape.\nThe Festival NEUE LITERATUR is organized by the Austrian Cultural Forum New York, the Goethe-Institut New York, the Deutsches Haus at NYU, the German Book Office, the German Consulate in New York, the Swiss Consulate, and the curators Susan Bernofsky and Paul North.\nFor more information about the festival, please visit www.festivalneueliteratur.org or follow us on Facebook.\n \nAndrea Winkler was born in Freistadt in 1972, and studied German Literature and Theater. She has received a number of literary awards, among them the Abraham Woursell Award and the Förderungspreis der Republik Österreich. Her publications include: Schatten(spiele): Poetologische Denkwege zu Friederike Mayröcker (2004), Arme Närrchen: Selbstgespräche (2006), Hanna und ich (2008), and Drei, vier Töne, nicht  mehr: Elf Rufe (Zsolnay, 2010). Andrea Winkler lives in Vienna.\nAndrea Grill was born in Bad Ischl in 1975 and studied in Salzburg before earning her doctorate at the University of Amsterdam with a dissertation on “The Evolution of Butterflies Common to Sardinia.” Her essays, stories, and poetry have appeared in newspapers and journals. She has published three novels: Zweischritt (2007), Tränenlachen (2008), and Das Schöne und das Notwendige (2011). Grill also translates from Albanian into German. She has lived in Tirana, Cagliari (Sardinia), Neuchatel und Bologna, and today resides in Vienna.\nJulia Schoch has won the Ingeborg Bachmann Jury Prize and the André Gide Preis for French-German literary translation. Her latest novel is Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Sommers (2009).\nAntje Rávic Strubel has received numerous literary awards, including the Hermann Hesse Prize, and was a finalist for the prestigious Leipzig Book Fair Award. Her novel Unter Schnee is available in English as Snowed Under (Red Hen Press, 2006).\nPeter Weber was an accomplished athlete while in school, but, following an accident when he was 19, he began to write. His latest novel, Die melodielosen Jahre (2007), was awarded the Solothurner Literature Prize.\nDorothee Elmiger won the Kelag Prize in the 2010 Ingeborg Bachmann contest. Her debut novel, Einladung an die Waghalsigen (2011), won the Aspekte Prize for Debut Novels.\n \nImages from the event (below) by Maria-Theresia Svejda.\n \nVENUE\nYale University\nDepartment of Germanic Languages and Literatures\nYale University\nWilliam L. Harkness Hall, Room 309\nNew Haven, CT 06520\nt. 203-432-0788\n
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CATEGORIES:Festivals,Literature,Panels,Workshop
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