Literaturforum Bibliothek presents new publications by Saxon authors
Michael G. Fritz reads at the district library in the Vita-Center on 4 November I Svetlana Lavochkina is a guest at the TIETZ on 8 November
Svetlana Lavochkina and Michael G. Fritz will be presenting their latest books in Chemnitz libraries next week as part of the Literaturforum Bibliothek event series.
On Monday, 4 November at 6.30 pm, the Dresden author Michael G. Fritz will read from his new novel "Auffliegende Papageien" at the district library in the Vita-Center. Fritz tells the story of a great love that spans a period of fifty years and touches on two social systems. Auffliegende Papageien was published by Mitteldeutscher Verlag in October 2019.
Arno Peters, a Berlin journalist, is left by his wife Angelika soon after reunification for another man, Viktor Gussew, with whom she also has a business relationship that can best be described as unification crime. After many years, he meets her again and starts to get involved in her husband's property business. In order to be close to her, Arno becomes part of the "Gussew system", in which a dusty and at the same time influential part of a world that was thought to have disappeared lives on. Angelika and Arno take stock and are faced with big questions: How long will the past haunt them? Or will they continue to haunt it?
On Friday 8 November at 7 pm, the Leipzig-based Ukrainian author Svetlana Lavochkina will be presenting her novel "Pushkin's Heirs" together with her translator Diana Feuerbach at the Central Library in the TIETZ. Svetlana Lavochkina has written a turbulent Jewish family saga set between Moscow, Zaporozhye and the Black Sea.
June 1821: Alexander Pusckin, on his way into exile, loses his valuable turquoise ring while bathing euphorically in the wild Dnieper near Zaporozhye, a boring Ukrainian town, and develops a severe fever. Nine months later, the landlady of the inn where he is staying gives birth to a child. 31 December 1976, Zaporozhye: the Katz family celebrates New Year's Eve in a big party, even Alka, who is doing her doctorate on Hemingway, has made the long journey from Moscow. Wannabe poet Josik, husband of Alka's cousin Rita, takes the opportunity to announce his latest ground-breaking discovery: The family is descended from the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin! "Pushkin's Heirs" was published by Voland & Quist in October 2019.
The Literaturforum Bibliothek - Autoren aus Sachsen in sächsischen Bibliotheken gives authors and translators living in Saxony the opportunity to present themselves and their work published since 2000 to the general public. Since 2013, 40 to 50 readings have been organised each year, attracting lively interest from the public. Public and academic libraries serve as venues, confirming their role as a place of learning and culture. The different thematic orientations of the readings show how diverse the literary work of Saxon authors is.
The project is being organised as a joint venture between the Saxon State Association of the German Library Association and the Saxon Literature Council with financial support from the Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts.