Get to know the works of the Heym Prize winners
Reading from the texts by Slavenka Drakulić and Richard Swartz
On 9 October 2021, 6 p.m. - the evening before the award ceremony for the International Stefan Heym Prize of the City of Chemnitz - Chemnitz residents are invited to a reading of texts by the prize-winning couple in the TIETZ event hall.
Admission is free.
Registration at information(at)stadtbibliothek-chemnitz.de or phone 0371 488-4366 is required.
The Swedish author Richard Swartz will read from current texts and enter into dialogue with the guests. Actress Katka Kurze will read from Croatian author Slavenka Drakulić's novel "Mileva Einstein or The Theory of Loneliness".
"Mileva Einstein or The Theory of Loneliness" (Slavenka Drakulić)
Mileva Einstein studied physics with her husband Albert Einstein, discussed his theories with him as an equal partner and was his closest confidante.
When the marriage broke up, Mileva lost her inner stability. A moving novel about a talented woman who dreamed of her own life and failed because of the patriarchal thought patterns of the early 20th century.
"In Praise of the Book - Confessions of an Inhabitant of the Gutenberg Galaxy" (Richard Swartz)
Thanks to a book, he cried for the first time as a child about someone other than himself, writes the author Richard Swartz. And then realised that he could have many lives thanks to books. For the rest of his life, there was no stopping him.
Winner of the International Stefan Heym Prize of the City of Chemnitz 2020
Slavenka Drakulić and Richard Swartz are European voices in the best sense of the word, they deal with the big European questions, which are discussed using the example of individual fates. War and peace, democracy, dictatorship, war crimes and responsibility, equality and justice: as chroniclers, they are characterised by their astute literary observation of history and the present, which conveys incorruptible truths with equal parts brilliance and poetry.
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