Tag: Literature in Munich
column "That’s nice": Literature and publishers: hope as a commodity
In 2023, some of the German publishing prizes will also go to Bavarian publishers such as “&Töchter”. As good and important as such support is, it also raises fundamental questions.…
Munich: Poetry reading “My three lyrical I’s” – Munich
Listening to three up-and-coming German-speaking poets from all over the world and looking at art at the same time – roughly speaking, that is the concept of the series “My…
Book premiere of Albert Ostermaier’s “Yuba” – Munich
The photos by Maya Mercer are blood-red, as are the poems by Albert Ostermaier: the joint volume “Yuba” (Steidl) exudes drama and danger at the same time. The title refers…
Florian Illies receives honorary award at the Bavarian Book Prize 2023 – Munich
“Florian Illies paints with words. His books are collages of contemporary history – entertaining, humorous, critical and never boring,” says Markus Söder about Florian Illies. The writer is to receive…
Erlangen Translation Prize for Christian Filips – Munich
The author and translator Christian Filips received the “Erlangen Literature Prize for Poetry as Translation” this year. The prize, worth 10,000 euros, will be awarded on the occasion of the…
Sandra Hoffmann presents her novel “Now you’re here” in Munich – Munich
As you call into the forest, so it echoes out. But Claire doesn’t call at all. Rather, she tries to make herself very quietly invisible. Because someone is approaching her…
Munich: menu reading in Miss Wagner – Munich
A plate of watermelon, a touch of summer history and a pinch of pop music on the violin. This is how the continuation of the “Menu Readings” tastes and sounds,…
Reading of European writers in Munich – Munich
First intellectually, then enjoy culinary delights: On Friday evening, literature enthusiasts can listen to selected voices from all over Europe who recite their own works in different languages. Afterwards there…
Literary translator Andrea O’Brien receives another grant – Bavaria
The 7,000-euro working grant from the Free State of Bavaria goes to Andrea O’Brien in 2023 for her translation of the novel “Unsettled Ground” by Claire Fuller from English into…
Salon Luitpold: varied cultural program in the coming weeks. – Munich
What does summer do with writing? This is just one of many questions that will be asked in the Cafe Luitpold salon in the coming weeks. On Sunday, July 2,…