As part of the Paderborn Children's Literature Days on 24 and 25 June, the award-winning children's and young adult author Heinz Janisch will be coming to Paderborn University. In 2024, he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Prize for his life's work and the Christine Nöstlinger Prize for Children's and Young Adult Literature.
For a reading entitled "Give me wings! Poems and children's books for everyone" on Wednesday, 24 June, from 4 to 6 p.m., all interested parties are invited to the University's Studio Theatre (Studiobühne). Registration by e-mail to Martha Haggarty (martha.haggarty@uni-paderborn.de) is requested. Admission is free.
About the author
Janisch was born in Burgenland, Austria, in 1960. He studied German and journalism in Vienna before becoming an editor at the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, where he helped create the portrait series "Menschenbilder" for decades. His literary work for children began in 1989 with the picture book "Mario, der Tagmaler". Since then, he has published numerous picture books. His writing for children also includes volumes of poetry, first readers, and short stories. His work is characterised by a poetically condensed linguistic style that leaves readers plenty of room for imaginative further thought and storytelling. His stories are based on religious, mythological or fairy-tale themes and characters.
About the Paderborn Children's Literature Days
The Paderborn Children's Literature Days are a series of events organised by the Department of German Literature Didactics at the Institute of German Language and Comparative Literature at Paderborn University. Every two years in the summer semester, an author from the field of children's and young adult literature is invited to Paderborn. Linked to seminars on literary didactics, students can meet the author during the guest stay at the university, analyse and discuss the respective works. In this way, they learn about the multifaceted everyday life of writing and the specifics of writing for children and young people. The event format includes a public reading, public lectures by the author, and readings for invited school classes in the University's Studio Theatre (Studiobühne).
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