International Stefan Heym Prize: Reading by the prizewinner Joanna Bator
Wednesday, 5 April, 7 pm, TIETZ, event hall 3rd floor, admission free
Joanna Bator, winner of the International Stefan Heym Prize of the City of Chemnitz, will be reading from her latest novel "Dunkel, fast Nacht" on Wednesday, 5 April at 7 p.m. in the TIETZ, 3rd floor event hall. She will be accompanied by the translator of the Polish first edition, Lisa Palmes. The translation will be read by Chemnitz audiobook narrator and German scholar Dr Christoph Grube, TU Chemnitz. Prof. Dr Bernadette Malinowski, Chair of Modern German and Comparative Literature, TU Chemnitz, will moderate the literary evening. Admission is free.
"Dark, almost night"
A city is in turmoil. Three children have disappeared. The unsuccessful investigations fuel the anger of the citizens and fuel rumours. Suspicions and accusations run rampant. There is incitement against the "cat eaters", the gypsies. The language of hatred blazes on the radio and on the internet. Alicja Tabor left this city early on. Now she returns as a journalist to investigate the mysterious abductions.
Joanna Bator, born in 1968, is recognised as an outstanding voice in contemporary European literature. With her texts, which are as idiosyncratic as they are skilfully and subtly told, the Polish writer and journalist quietly but resolutely addresses current social issues and phenomena and explores them in their historical depths. Her latest novel "Dark, Almost Night" shows how hatred can destroy a society, how quickly the varnish of human morality can tear when people are confronted with change.