I were next Week in Berlin, I would go there because:
Thursday 17 February 2011
20.00 clock
After the war - history attest, storytelling
20.00 clock
After the war - history attest, storytelling
With Brigitte Döbert and Katharina Wolf-Grießhaber
Chair: Volker Weichsel (Journal EASTERN EUROPE)
"What on the map in 1991, the beginning of the Bosnia war, nor as a patchwork quilt looked like, had to deal divided by the war of 1995 and the Dayton Agreement in three major fields of color: Since living Muslim Bosniaks, Catholic Croats and Orthodox Serbs separated by ethnicity in two largely autonomous "entities", the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republika Srpska.
As complicated as the new state structure, are still fresh, the scars of war. The so-called ethnic cleansing, the starvation of the enclaves, the massacres of civilians, culminating in the genocide of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica and the failure of the international community - how to write about it? Does "give the sense of madness" with words (Suljagic), "cracked cement the image of the world" (Jergović)?
The Bosniak Emir Suljagic (b. 1975) who escaped the massacre at Srebrenica because he worked as an interpreter for the UN and the Bosnian Croat and award-winning writer Miljenko Jergović (Born 1966) both have written, from temporal and spatial distance over the war.
Katharina Wolf-Grießhaber has Suljagics "Srebrenica. Notes from hell" (Zsolnay 2009) from the Bosnian, Brigitte Döbert Jergovics Sarajevo Marlboro "(Schöffling 2009) translated from Croatian. In an interview with Volker Weichsel (Osteuropa) represent the
translators, experts of the linguistic distance, the two books before
Organized by the Weltlesebühne in collaboration with the Literature Workshop Berlin, funded by the Robert Bosch Stiftung
Location:..
Literaturwerkstatt Culture Brewery 8.0
Knaackstr. 97, 10435 Berlin
Admission 5 €, concessions 3 €
For further information please contact the organizer (http://www.weltlesebuehne.de/berlin.html). "
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