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Goethe-Institut Australia delivers podcasts which focus on the intercultural exchange of ideas between Australia and Germany. Hear what visiting German authors have to say to Australian audiences, listen to readings and discussions from the German/Australian interface of literature, film, theatre an…

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  • Apr 11, 2012 LATEST EPISODE
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Issue 22: Jenny Erpenbeck, guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2012 25:31


Jenny Erpenbeck was born in the former GDR to a family of storytellers and tried to do something different, studying drama and working as stage director. In 1999 she released her first book and realized that being a writer was a little more family friendly. In March 2012, Jenny was a guest at the Adelaide Writers Festival and the Goethe-Institut Australia. Interviewed by Trudi Latour (SBS German Radio), Jenny discusses her latest book 'Visitation' ('Heimsuchung'). The German title has two meanings, to search for a home or to lose a home and be haunted by its memories. The book deals with 100 years of German history by exploring the lives of the changing inhabitants of a house in Brandenburg as they live though the Nazi regime and the conflict between East and West Germany.

Issue 21: Zafer Senocak, guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2011 25:31


Zafer Senocak is one of the leading voices in the debates of multiculturalism, national and cultural identity in Europe. Born in Ankara, but living in Germany since his early childhood, his knowledge and empathy for both the Western and the Islamic world derives from his own experiences in between two worlds. In his work as well as in this present interview, he questions the historical background of migration to Germany, the ongoing attempts to integrate those migrants into society, the implications of Islamic fundamentalism on persistent racism and the possibility of a national entity and unity in Germany. The author was invited to the Sydney Writers Festival in May 2011 and engaged in several discussions about migration and multiculturalism in Europe and the Islamic world.

Issue 20: Christoph Schlingensief

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2011 24:49


No other German artist and theater director has been as active as Christoph Schlingensief in earning the term "political" for his work. As society's concept of the political became increasingly arbitrary and theatrical, Schlingensief responded with a rather unusual cure: he fought against the haziness of politics by totally confusing supposed unambiguities, by using reality as the main platform for his work and by working with handicapped or amateur actors. The theatre cannot function without reality

Issue 19: Christoph Schlingensief

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2011 28:05


The work of German artist Christoph Schlingensief spanned a diverse range of fields, including film, theatre, activism, television and opera. In over two decades, Schlingensief produced a large body of politically engaged work that challenged audiences to think critically and creatively about a broad range of socio-political issues and debates. This book

Issue 18: Dagmar Leupold (part two), guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2011 96:22


The celebration of the 200th anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist has started in Sydney with a University of Sydney Symposium on the work and actuality of Heinrich von Kleist. 40 international Kleist experts travelled to Sydney; among them German author Dagmar Leupold whose latest novel creates an unlikely and poetic encounter between Heinrich von Kleist and Ulrike Meinhof. Listen to the first part of the interview with Dagmar Leupold and Yixu L

Issue 17: Dagmar Leupold (part one), guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2011 95:35


The celebration of the 200th anniversary of the death of Heinrich von Kleist has started in Sydney with a University of Sydney Symposium on the work and actuality of Heinrich von Kleist. 40 international Kleist experts travelled to Sydney; among them German author Dagmar Leupold whose latest novel creates an unlikely and poetic encounter between Heinrich von Kleist and Ulrike Meinhof. Listen to the first part of the interview with Dagmar Leupold and Yixu L

Issue 15: Marion D

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2011 6:34


Issue 14: Ilija Trojanow, guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2010 6:10


Ilija Trojanow is an international bestselling author and has visited Australia as a guest of the Goethe-Institut and the Adelaide Writers Week 2010. In his conversation with Trudi Latour he discusses his famous novel "The Collector of Worlds", which is build around the real life character Sir Richard Burton who travelled the world, learning indigenous languages and foreign cultures. We hear about the question of cultural identity and literature.

Issue 13: Erica Fischer, guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2010 94:48


Issue 12: Antje R

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 10, 2009 63:20


Renowned German writer Antje R

Issue 10: Sa

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2009 37:17


Award-winning author Sa

Issue 8: Andrea Maria Schenkel, guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2008 32:52


Listen to the SBS-interview with Andrea Maria Schenkel who won several literature awards for both her first novel "The Murder Farm" (Tann

Issue 7: Vanessa Berry, guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2008 24:12


Listen to Australian Writer Vanessa Berry, just returned from her residence in Leipzig and Berlin. Posted to Germany through the Goethe-Institut she had the chance to discover different German stories and situations

Issue 4: Wiebke Bruhns, guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 2, 2008 87:54


reading at the Goethe-Institut Australia, Sydney Wibke Bruhns, well known journalist, writer and TV-presenter was guest of the 2008 Sydney Writers's Festival. Her bestselling book "Meines Vaters Land" has been published in English translation by Random House as "My Father's Country". The extraordinary story of her family over three generations has been described as "a fascinating mix of private chronicle, contemporary reporting, and personal search for identity".

Issue 2: Zoran Drvenkar, guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2008 16:53


Zoran Drvenkar was born in Croatia in 1967 and moved to Berlin at the age of three. His novels, poems, plays and short stories, many of them for children, have won him numerous awards. After his thriller

Issue 6: Andrea Maria Schenkel, guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 1969 44:21


German bestseller author Andrea Maria Schenkel reads from her unusual crime story "The Murder Farm". Listen as she talks about her insights and inspirations.

Issue 5: Stefan Klein, guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 1969 52:02


Stefan Klein was guest at the Perth Writers Festival 2008. He talked to author Stephanie Dowrick.

Issue 1: Galsan Tschinag, guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 1969 29:23


Galsan Tschinag is the author of more than thirty books, a shaman, a singer and the chief of the Tuvan people in Mongolia. He was born in the early 1940s in the high mountains of Mongolia; from 1962 until 1968 he studied at the University of Leipzig in Eastern Germany, where he adopted German as his written language. His books, amongst them the highly successful novel

Issue 16: Ilija Trojanow, guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 1969 72:47


Internationally renowned author Ilija Trojanow is a man of the globalised world. Born in Bulgaria, he grew up in South-Africa, travelled through India and the Orient and lives now in Europe. Throughout all this time his language of literature remained German. Ilija Trojanow was a guest of the Adelaide Writers

Issue 11: Stefan Aust, guest at Bookmarks

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 1969 29:01


Stefan Aust, a renowned German author and journalist talks to Trudi Latour from SBS German Radio about his work on

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