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Michael Krüger at Reading Poetry Festival
Michael Krüger, the award-winning German poet, will read from and talk about his latest collection to be translated into English, Last Day of the Year with its themes of ageing, late work, and loss. The poet Stanley Moss says about Michael: 'He gives us a world exploding with memories, a flood, an Ark.'
Günter Grass: A Tribute
The 1959 publication of The Tin Drum was a landmark moment in the development of European magical realism and established Grass as one of Germany’s most revered yet controversial novelists. In the year of his death, friend and author Salman Rushdie, writer Ulrike Draesner and academic Karen Leeder pay tribute to the Nobel Prize winner. Chaired by Anne McElvoy.
Sat 10 Oct 2015 12:15pm - 1:15pm
The Inkpot, Imperial Square
£8
Reading poems in Cambridge for the launch of the Missing Slate
Delighted to be reading poems by Durs Grunbein and Volker Braun at the launch of The Missing Slate 2015
Karen Leeder gives workshop on Modern German Poetry Oxford Translation day
Karen Leeder will give a workshop on translating Ulrike Almut Sandig as part of Oxford Transaltion Day 2015 as part of the Oxford German Network Events.
Ulrike Almut Sandig was on tour in the UK as part of Mediaiting Modern Poetry project in February / March 2015 . See here for the events
Proms Extra on Beethoven and the German Poetry that inspired him
17:45 Friday 24 Jul 2015 Royal College of Music
German culture experts Professor Karen Leeder and Professor Robert Vilain tlak with Anne McElvoy on the great German Romantic poetry that inspired Beethoven throughout his life, from Schiller’s 'Ode to Joy' to Goethe’s 'Egmont' and Treitschke’s 'Fidelio'.
Günter Grass
Come and find about about Nobel Prize Winner Günter Grass - his novels, his etchings and his poetry...
With Ray Ockenden, Alexandra Vinall and Karen Leeder, Tyalor Institute, 17.30pm 11 June 2015
Supported by Oxford University German Society
And hear Karen Leeder, Eugen Ruge, Lawrence Norfolk and Oliver Kamm with Anne McElvoy on the Tin Drum on Free Thinking here
Don't Mind the Gap – An Evening of British and German Literature
A vibrant mixture of poetry and prose: The German Academy for Language and Literature, visiting London this year, is delighted to invite you to an evening with some of the best poets and novelists from the UK and from Germany, each a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature or of the German Academy.
Ulrike Almut Sandig in Oxford
As part of her UK tour German poet, short story writer and performer Ulrike Almut Sandig
will appear in Oxford on Tuesday 3 March (7th week), 5.30pm, Lecture Theatre (2nd Floor), Radcliffe Humanities, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG,
This will be a bilingual performance of poetry and prose, including specially commissioned new work and translations, sound art, film and a discussion of her new volume Buch gegen das Verschwinden (2015), followed by a reception. All welcome!