Volker Braun – Rubble Flora
Holywell Music Room, Holywell Street, Oxford, OX1 3BN, 18.00.
The oldest custom-built concert hall in Europe, the Holywell Music Room opened its doors to the public for the first time in 1748. Twenty Five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall Volker Braun visits Oxford to offer his characteristically caustic and melancholy reckoning with the East German past and the present of the Berlin Republic.
Introduced by Ian Wallace, with David Constantine and Karen Leeder. Bilingual evening of poetry and discussion.
Admission Free: With the support of the Mediaeval and Modern Languages Faculty, University of Oxford.
See the pictures from the event here and a film of the reading
Catch him also Tuesday 19th May at the Goethe Institue London,
Goethe Institute Library at the Goethe Institute London , Goethe-Institut, London, 50 Princes Gate, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2 PH, 19.30
Admission free: booking required www.goethe.de/london