Festival Neue Literatur 2018: “The Author’s Voice”
When: Sun., Mar. 25, 2018 at 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Where: Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
212-998-8660 Price: Free
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The six German-language authors of Festival Neue Literatur pair up with New York City actors to give a sampling from their work, providing a taste of new writing from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.
Featuring Nava Ebrahimi, Robert Prosser, Fatma Aydemir, Philipp Winkler, Ursula Fricker and Meral Kureyshi and moderated by the festival curator Peter Blackstock. English excerpts will be read by the actors Adelind Horan and Robert Lyons.
About Festival Neue Literatur (March 23-25):
Festival Neue Literatur brings New York audiences new writing from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States, as the first and only festival to spotlight German-language and American fiction. The 2018 festival invites our authors to tackle questions of identity and belonging in a fracturing Europe and beyond, using race, religion, immigration, status, politics, and even football hooliganism as lenses to explore contemporary society and the recent past. Join us!
The works featured at this year’s festival range widely in setting and theme, but are all centered on stories that might be deemed peripheral by the mainstream. From the rebellious ennui of a Turkish German woman whose visit to fabled Berlin club Berghain upends her life, to the lives of two lovers torn apart by the conflict in Bosnia, to the intersecting lives of an activist, sex worker, and high-level politician around the closing of a refugee camp, to the unlikely love story of a returning U.S. Marine and an undocumented half-Chinese half-Uighur woman, the stories celebrate the diversity of human experiences in a globalized world.
Festival Neue Literatur 2018 is made possible through generous support from BMW of North America, the German Foreign Office, and Radeberger Gruppe.
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