In the winter semester 2024/25, the Institute of German and Comparative Literature and the Centre for Contemporary German Literature at Paderborn University are once again inviting all interested parties to a series of literary readings and discussions. Over the past decades, the event format has already brought more than 200 renowned contemporary authors to Paderborn, and this year's programme also includes numerous well-known authors. The readings take place every Monday at 4.15 pm in Lecture Hall G at Paderborn University. Admission is free. Further information and an overview of all dates can be found here.
To kick things off on 14 October, Georg Klein will read from his new collection of stories ‘Im Bienenlicht’. Klein, born in Augsburg in 1953, studied German language and literature, history and social studies in Munich and Augsburg. After completing his studies, he worked as a ghostwriter and language teacher, among other things. He first published one of his texts in a literary magazine in 1984. It was not until 1998 that Klein found a publisher who published his first novel ‘Libidissi’. He lives in Bunde (East Frisia). Klein has been honoured with awards including the Brothers Grimm Prize (1999), the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (2000), the Leipzig Book Fair Prize (2010), the Lower Saxony State Prize (2012), the Arno Schmidt Scholarship (2018) and the Grand Prize of the German Literature Fund (2022). In the winter semester 2012/2013, Georg Klein held the 31st Paderborn Guest Lectureship for Writers. Klein has published, among others the novels ‘Barbar Rosa’ (2001), ‘Die Sonne scheint uns’ (2004), ‘Sünde Güte Blitz’ (2007), ‘Roman unserer Kindheit’ (2010), ‘Die Zukunft des Mars’ (2013) ‘Miakro’ (2018) and ‘Bruder aller Bilder’ (2023) as well as the short story collections ‘Anrufung des Blinden Fisches’ (1999), ‘Von den Deutschen’ (2002), “Die Logik der Süße” (2010) and “Im Bienenlicht” (2023), as well as the work “Schund und Segen” (2013) with various texts and the poetry lectures ’Scheitern! Persevere! Triumph!’ (2016).
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