Reading & Discussion with Marcel Beyer and Thomas Geiger
Sight. Seeing, Reading, Thinking: Büchner Prize winner Marcel Beyer reads from a new text and speaks with Thomas Geiger of the Literarisches Colloquium Berlin about the relationship between new texts and old images: how new images overlay, supplant, or replace old ones, and how old texts guide and comment on the perception and interpretation of new images. What remains, and what emerges, when fiction and contemporary history collide in Uwe Johnson’s stories? Does storytelling also preserve a memory of something that may never have been? On this evening—now a tradition—dedicated to Uwe Johnson, Beyer and Geiger explore the thought processes of authors and readers.
Marcel Beyer, born in 1965, is the author of prose, poetry, essays, and plays. In his works, he repeatedly engages with German history. In 2016, he was awarded the most prestigious German literary prize, presented by the German Academy for Language and Literature.
Admission is free; registration at reservierung (at) literaturhaus-rostock(dot)de
Location: Literaturhaus Rostock (in the Peter-Weiss-Haus), Doberaner Str. 21, 18057 Rostock
A joint event organized by the Uwe Johnson Society and Literaturhaus Rostock
