Kleisthaus
Mauerstraße 53, 10117 Berlin
Literature Night will take place in the Kleisthaus in Berlin. This artistic building which is currently managed by a representative of the Federal Republic of Germany is very popular with the German audience. The Czech Centre Berlin and the Office of Representation of the FRG have been organising a joint Year of Czech Culture in the Kleisthaus since 2009 of which Literature Nightwill be a part.
Kateřina Tučková – Vyhnání Gerty Schnirch (Expulsion of Gerta Schnirch)
Translation: Iris Riedel
In her first novel the young author describes a story of Gerta Schnirch, mother of a several-monthold daughter, who is along with other Germans from Brno ‘moved’ towards Vienna. Gerta is one of those who survive the exhausting march. After regaining the Czechoslovakian citizenship she comes back to Brno where she lives through another set of turbulent events which marked the second half of the twentieth century.
Petra Soukupova – Zmizet (To Disappear)
Translation: Mirko Kraetsch
The collection of three short tales by Petra Soukupová is an unforgiving insight into contemporary family relations which could be described by words from one of the tales “We live in a certain way. It’s not always bad but seldom good.” Through a child narrator in the tale Zmizet (Vanished) Petra Soukupová lets us look into a complicated heart of a contemporary family whose entire life has been changed by a car accident.
Tomas Zmeskal – Zivotopis cernobileho jehnete ( Biography of a black and white lamb)
Translation: Christina Frankenberg
The wins Lucie and Václav are growing up in Prague between 1960 and 1980 during the period of normalization. They differ from their surroundings not only because they are growing up without parents with their grandmother and handicapped uncle but mainly because they have a different color of skin - their father coming from Africa. This otherness in the world of the then openlyracist society brings them into troubles which they can best face together.
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