Müller Herta © Laurence Chaperon
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1 Lesung im Schubert-Saal
2 Lesungen im Berio-Saal
»History is not past, it never stops and unfolds in our hands.« The quote from Edmund de Waal's »Letters to Camondo« is the motto of the literature presented here. While Edmund de Waal tells the story of a Jewish family of bankers and art collectors before the rise of National Socialism, Turkish author Emine Sevgi Özdamar - accompanied on the piano by compatriot Fazıl Say - looks in her novel »A Space Bounded by Shadows« at a postwar Europe in which art, politics and life interacted powerfully. Nobel Prize winner Herta Müller invents a new literary form for telling stories of powerlessness and arbitrariness in her poetic collages »Der Beamte sagte«. The literary voices find their echo in the music of composers such as Gabriel Fauré, George Enescu and Fazıl Say.