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Leslie Adelson (Cornell): “The Future as Contested Ground: A Comparative Approach to Narrative Future-Making in Minority Literature in Contemporary Germany”

Deutsches Haus Columbia 420 West 116th Street, New York City

What does it mean to speak, as Hannah Arendt once did, of the broken “heart of time”? This lecture analyzes innovative forms of radical futurity in little known 21st-century fiction by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, who holds emblematic status on Germany’s path from Turkish migration to transcultural Europe, and Michael Götting, who has authored the first sustained novel about Black German…

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“Home Made in India:” A Conversation between Christopher Kloeble and Eric Jarosinski

Deutsches Haus NYU 42 Washington Mews, New York City

Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a reading by the author and current Max Kade Writer-in-Residence at Georgetown University, Christopher Kloeble, from his latest book Home Made in India: A Love Story Between Delhi and Berlin, followed by a conversation with @neinquarterly's Eric Jarosinski. Indians, Germans, and an author seeking to answer the question: What is home? Since his marriage to Saskya from India, Christopher Kloeble is a…

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