In the winter semester 2024/25, the Institute of German and Comparative Literature and the Centre for Contemporary German Literature at Paderborn University invite all interested parties to a series of literary readings with discussions. The readings followed by a discussion take place on Mondays at 4.15 pm in Lecture Hall G at Paderborn University. Admission is free. The events are organised by Prof. Dr Norbert Otto Eke and Prof. Dr Stefan Elit. Further information and an overview of all dates can be found at: go.upb.de/DeutscheLiteraturGegenwart.
On 18 November, the writer Frank Witzel will read from his new collection of stories ‘Die fernen Orte des Versagens’. Frank Witzel, born in Wiesbaden in 1955, began his musical training at the conservatory in Wiesbaden and has been publishing poetry since 1975. His first volume of poetry, ‘Stille Tage in Cliché’, was published in 1978. In addition to his poetry and prose publications, Witzel is also active as a translator and illustrator and works on radio plays for his own publications as well as other productions. Today, Frank Witzel lives in Offenbach. Witzel has been honoured for his literary and other work with the Robert Gernhardt Prize (2012), the German Book Prize (2015), the German Radio Play Prize (2017), the Erich Fried Prize (2021) and the WORTMELDUNGEN Ulrike Crespo Literature Prize (2024), among others. In 2017, he also held the Poetry Lectureship in Heidelberg, in 2018 in Tübingen and in 2022 (together with Ingo Schulze) the 40th Guest Lectureship for Writers in Paderborn. Witzel was admitted to the German Academy for Language and Poetry in 2022. His previous publications include the poetry collections ‘Tage ohne Ende. Ein Poème Cinématique’ (1980) and “Grund unter Grund” (2018), translations of Raoul Vaneigem's “Das Buch der Lüste” (1984) and Billie Holiday's biography “Lady sings the blues” (2013), illustrations for Uli Becker's “Das Höchste der Gefühle” (1987), Erich Kästner's ’Fabian. Die Geschichte eines Moralisten’ (2007) and the comic “Kästner lässt träumen” (2007) as well as the novels “Bluemoon Baby” (2001), “Revolution und Heimarbeit” (2003), “Vondenloh” (2008), “Die Erfindung der Roten Armee Fraktion durch einen manisch-depressiven Teenager im Sommer 1969” (2015, radio play 2016), “Direkt danach ist kurz davor” (2017) and “Inniger Schiffbruch” (2020).
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