"Ger­man lit­er­at­ure of the present"

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.

Jana Scheerer will be presenting her new novel ‘Die Rassistin’ on 21 October. Scheerer, born in Bochum in 1978, studied German, American Studies and Media Studies. She then worked as an academic assistant at the Institute for German Studies at the University of Potsdam. She now lives in Berlin. Her publications include the novels ‘Mein Vater, sein Schwein und ich’ (2004), ‘Mein innerer Elvis’ (2010), ‘Das Meer in meinem Zimmer’ (2020) and ‘Die Rassistin’ (2024) as well as the children's and young adult books ‘Dinner Club’ (2013), ‘Als meine Unterhose vom Himmel fiel’ (2017) and four books in the ‘Detektei Donnerschlag’ series. Jana Scheerer has already received several awards, including the Literary Colloquium Berlin scholarship (2002), the Prenzlauer Berg Literature Prize (2004), the LUCHS Children's and Young People's Book Prize (2010) and the Friedrich Glauser Prize in the ‘Best Children's Thriller’ category (2020).

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