WORKSHOP | READINGS AND ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS Festival NEUE LITERATUR | New Writing in German

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.

Authors from Austria
Andrea Winkler
Andrea Grill

Authors from Germany
Julia Schoch
Antje Ravic Strubel

Authors from Switzerland
Peter Weber
Dorothee Elmiger

The 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.

The 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.

For more information about the festival, please visit www.festivalneueliteratur.org or follow us on Facebook.

Andrea 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.

Andrea 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.

Julia 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).

Antje 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).

Peter 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.

Dorothee 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.

Images from the event (below) by Maria-Theresia Svejda.

VENUE
Yale University
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Yale University
William L. Harkness Hall, Room 309
New Haven, CT 06520
t. 203-432-0788