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Newsletter 9 / September 2024
Karosh Taha © Havin Al-Sindy, Lena Gorelik © Charlotte Troll, Maryam Aras © Fatima Khan
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WRITING WHILE THE WORLD IS HAPPENING
Reading Karosh Taha, Lena Gorelik und Maryam Aras
(in German language)
Sunday, September 8, 2024, 3:00 p.m.
Schloss Wiepersdorf
Wiepersdorf – Bettina-von-Arnim-Str. 13, 14913 Niederer Fläming
Free admission
The authors are part of a group scholarship at Schloss Wiepersdorf which includes a writing workshop and the developing of a concept for a literature festival. The authors and their writing are linked by the search for aesthetic forms that capture narratives and realities outside of mainstream society in literary form.
Karosh Taha will read from her current novel manuscript, which, based on the doppelganger theory of the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, poses the question of individuality, reality construction, and narrating. Lena Gorelik will read from her novel “Wer wir sind” (published by Rowohlt in 2022), in which she tells in impressive language about the emigration of her Jewish-Russian family from St. Petersburg to Germany, about the disappointed euphoria about the West, and also about the estrangement of parents and daughter. Maryam Aras reads her essay “68, ein deutsches Unschuldsmoment” (COLLATERAL, 2021), in which she uses her father's political biography to unravel the emergence of the transnational Iranian student opposition from the narrative of the German 1968.
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ÜBER ALLEM EIN WEITER HIMMEL (Above all a wide sky)
Reading with Matthias Nawrat
(in German language)
Sunday, September 29, 2024, 3:00 p.m.
Schloss Wiepersdorf
Wiepersdorf – Bettina-von-Arnim-Str. 13, 14913 Niederer Fläming
Free admission
Matthias Nawrat will be fellow at Schloss Wiepersdorf from mid-September until mid-October. On Sunday, September 29, the last opening day of the café and museum at Schloss Wiepersdorf, he will be reading from his latest book “Über allem ein weiter Himmel”.
Matthias Nawrat has spent ten years traveling through the literature and landscapes of Eastern Europe. His journey took him from Opole in Poland, where his family emigrated from in the 1980s, to the Gdansk shipyard, the birthplace of the Solidarność revolution, from Tel Aviv back to Berlin and on to Timișoara, Budapest, Skopje in Macedonia, Minsk and beyond the Urals. The book is a kind of travel diary and an autobiographical essay at the same time. It was published by Rowohlt Verlag in March 2024.
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COOPERATIONS
The Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf is awarding two scholarships to writers from Israel from September to November 2024 in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Tel Aviv. The author Galit Dahan Carlibach and the screenwriter and author Shachar Magen were selected by a jury in Israel for a residency scholarship funded by the Brandenburg Ministry of Culture,
“Seen from afar - Encounters in Brandenburg” is the name of the project by Brandenburgischer Literaturrat and Literarisches Colloquium Berlin (LCB), which is taking place as part of ‘Connecting Worlds - Brandenburg as a Cultural Land 2024/2025’. As part of the project, the Schloss Wiepersdorf Cultural Foundation has invited the writer Matthias Nawrat to Wiepersdorf for a four-week scholarship from mid-September. Kulturland Brandenburg 2024/2025 is funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Planning of the State of Brandenburg with the kind support of Ostdeutscher Sparkassenverband and the Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg.
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ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION IN SCHLOSS WIEPERSDORF
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation continued its cooperation with the Kulturstiftung Schloss Wiepersdorf that started in 2023. The annual Humboldt Residency Programme was held in part in Wiepersdorf. In August, the group of chosen fellows were guests in Schloss Wiepersdorf.
The theme for 2024 is “Power and Knowledge: Confronting Global Imbalances in our Knowledge Systems”. In the first part of the Humboldt Residency Program in Wiepersdorf, top-class academics, artists and journalists from Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Australia, India, Mauritius, Great Britain, Mongolia, Botswana, Nepal and Germany came together to discuss the topics of the annual program, to work together on strategies to combat the unequal distribution of access to knowledge and to raise awareness of global knowledge resources. The program will continue in Berlin.
Read more: Humboldt Residency Programme
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CAFÉ, MUSEUM AND PARK
The Café in the Orangery and the Museum in Schloss Wiepersdorf are open in 2024 on Sundays from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. until September 29.
The castle park can be visited all year round. Thanks to our open air “Kosmos Wiepersdorf” you can walk a tour on your own and get information via QR Codes.
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