- Dienstag, 17. Januar 2012 18.30 Uhr – Samstag, 17. Dezember 2011, 20.00 Uhr In meinem Kalender speichern
The Essential Heinrich Böll
To celebrate the 2011 publication of Melville House's The Essential Heinrich Böll, the Goethe-Institut presents a panel discussion on the life, work, politics and cultural significance of the Nobel Laureate writer. Panelists include The Wall Street Journal critic Sam Sacks, bestselling author Hugo Hamilton, and Heinrich Böll's son, the celebrated artist René Böll.
The Essential Heinrich Böll features eight new editions, with new introductions, of Böll's classic works, including The Safety Net, The Clown, Billiards at Half-Past Nine, The Train Was On Time, Group Portrait With Lady, Irish Journal, What’s to Become of the Boy?, and, for the first time in English, The Collected Stories. Melville House hopes the new editions lead to a new generation of readers discovering the beauty and power of Germany's great post-war writer.
Admission is free.
The event will include an audio/video presentation by René Böll, a discussion of Böll’s literary legacy, and a Q&A session.
René Böll is a celebrated artist whose work has been exhibited around the world, including China, Ecuador, the United States, Kenya, Russia, and throughout Europe. He is known for his landscape paintings, his etchings, and his work with Chinese and Japanese inks. He is the co-founder of the Lumuv Publishing House, co-founder of the Beckers-Böll Art Museum, editor of the six volume Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh, and one of the founders of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting human rights, non-violence, ecology, and democracy.
Hugo Hamilton is the best-selling author of The Speckled People (4th Estate), a German-Irish memoir of growing up in Dublin during the 50s and 60s with a fervent Irish nationalist father and German mother who came to Ireland in the aftermath of World War 2. He is the acclaimed author of two memoirs, seven novels and one collection of short stories, all of which reflect on the increasingly compelling issues of cultural divisions, belonging and identity. His latest novel Hand in the Fire (4th Estate) was published April 2010. He wrote the introduction to Melville House's June 2011 reissue of Heinrich Böll's Irish Journal.
Sam Sacks is an editor and co-founder of the online journal Letters Monthly and writes The Fiction Chronicle for The Wall Street Journal.
The Essential Heinrich Böll features eight new editions, with new introductions, of Böll's classic works, including The Safety Net, The Clown, Billiards at Half-Past Nine, The Train Was On Time, Group Portrait With Lady, Irish Journal, What’s to Become of the Boy?, and, for the first time in English, The Collected Stories. Melville House hopes the new editions lead to a new generation of readers discovering the beauty and power of Germany's great post-war writer.
Admission is free.
The event will include an audio/video presentation by René Böll, a discussion of Böll’s literary legacy, and a Q&A session.
René Böll is a celebrated artist whose work has been exhibited around the world, including China, Ecuador, the United States, Kenya, Russia, and throughout Europe. He is known for his landscape paintings, his etchings, and his work with Chinese and Japanese inks. He is the co-founder of the Lumuv Publishing House, co-founder of the Beckers-Böll Art Museum, editor of the six volume Complete Letters of Vincent van Gogh, and one of the founders of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, an organization dedicated to promoting human rights, non-violence, ecology, and democracy.
Hugo Hamilton is the best-selling author of The Speckled People (4th Estate), a German-Irish memoir of growing up in Dublin during the 50s and 60s with a fervent Irish nationalist father and German mother who came to Ireland in the aftermath of World War 2. He is the acclaimed author of two memoirs, seven novels and one collection of short stories, all of which reflect on the increasingly compelling issues of cultural divisions, belonging and identity. His latest novel Hand in the Fire (4th Estate) was published April 2010. He wrote the introduction to Melville House's June 2011 reissue of Heinrich Böll's Irish Journal.
Sam Sacks is an editor and co-founder of the online journal Letters Monthly and writes The Fiction Chronicle for The Wall Street Journal.