INHABIT THE WORD 80 years PEN Centre of German-Speaking Writers Abroad at the Villa Aurora and USCʼs Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies, Los Angeles (June 26th - 30th, 2014)
... you can leave and yet stay and inhabit the word the word maybe of many tongues at once but first and foremost the German word ... (Hilde Domin)
Eighty years ago the German PEN-Club in Exile was founded in opposition to developments in Germany. Before long it united all of the most important authors in exile, including Lion Feuchtwanger, Thomas Mann, Bertold Brecht, Alfred Döblin, etc. After the Second World War the “Exil-PEN” changed its name to PEN Centre of German-Speaking Writers Abroad. To this day it represents authors who write in German but live abroad and are united in their efforts on behalf of writers who are currently being persecuted. To mark its anniversary, members of the PEN Centre will meet at the Villa Aurora and USCʼs Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies, Los Angeles, from June 26th - 30th, 2014, for a series of public lectures, talks, readings and discussions. We'll start publicizing the events soon. PROGRAM – VILLA AURORA (All contributions are in English unless otherwise stated) 28th June 2014, 2pm – 6pm 29th June 2014, 2 pm – 6 pm TALKS AND DISCUSSION READINGS Welcome Members of the PEN Centre of German- By Margit Kleinman, Director of the Villa Aurora Speaking Writers Abroad read from their work Introduced by Gabrielle Alioth 80 Years of Exile Bernadette Conrad: Keynote speech by Guy Stern The Many Lives of Paula Fox Presentation of Gehen und doch bleiben – Egon Schwarz: Autoren schreiben über Autoren Warum ich keinen Roman geschrieben habe, Anthology of the PEN Centre of German- read by Irene Lindgren Speaking Writers Abroad (in German) By Gabrielle Alioth Marta Feuchtwanger: At Home in America Gerda Nischan: A talk by Bernadette Conrad Reading from Letters to a Prisoner of War and other works Alfred Wolfenstein Michael Eskin: A talk by Utz Rachowski Reading Poems by Lajos Walder
Kindertransport and the Loss of Oneʼs Geertje Suhr Potash: Mother Tongue Brief an den Geheimrat Goethe, and some A talk by Renate Ahrens Poems, Reading (in German and English) The DNA of Predjudice: On the One and the Utz Rachwoski: Reading from his work Many A reading by Michael Eskin W.G. Sebaldʼs The Emigrants Renate Ahrens: A lecture by Claudia Becker Ernst Toller – Eine Beunruhigung(in German) Writing in Many Tongues at Once Claudia Becker: Discussion with Geertje Suhr Potash and Gerda Reading from her works Nischan (in German) Gino Leineweber: Reading from his works Reception (at 6 pm) Gabrielle Alioth: Hosted by Jean-François Lichtenstern, General Emigrating from Switzerland; a personal view Counsel of Switzerland
PROGRAM – MAX KADE INSTITUTE (All contributions are in English unless otherwise stated)
26th June 2014, 7 pm 30th June 2014, 7 pm
"AMERICAN TRACES IN CONTEMPORARY "EMIGRATION AND EMIGRANTS" LITERATURE IN GERMAN"
Michael Eskin: Welcome by Jean-François Lichtenstern, Consul General of Switzerland American Traces in Contemporary Literature in German
Gabrielle Alioth: Gabrielle Alioth:
American Traces in Contemporary Swiss Introduction and Reading from: Emigrated – Literature Swiss Emigrants through 7 Centuries
Renate Ahrens: Gino Leineweber:
A Mixture of Language: German-English Explorers, Settlers – Francisco Pizarro and Childrenʼs Books others
Bernadette Conrad: Renate Ahrens:
The Perception of American Writers in Presentation and Reading from: Stefan Zweig – Germany On the Threshold
To be followed by a discussion. To be followed by a discussion.
For their generous support we thank:
and our sponsor:
• Villa Aurora, 520 Paseo Miramar, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272, Telephone: 310 454 42 31, [email protected] • Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies, University of Southern California, 2714 S. Hoover Street, Los Angeles CA 90007, Telephone: 213 743 2707, [email protected]