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In Catastrophe/Forms four speakers enact over 30 poems (1911-1919) from 14 different countries, depicting the turn from preliminary war fever to the shock at the effects of industrialised mass war. The multimedia performance is directed by Johann Reißer and spoken by Iwona Mickiewicz, Carolin Bohn, Julia Trompeter, and Xaver Römer.

The duo-performance Kling Sichten, arranged and realised by Trompeter and Römer, illuminates poems by the German poet Thomas Kling (1957-2005) that concern the aftermath and the remembrance of WWI.

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

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

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