Embassy Events Calendar

Upcoming events with Embassy involvement include:

• May-December:
  performance of theater play by Edgar Allan Poe at Seebühne Hiddensee
• July 2-5:
  Conference “Modernization and Intellectual Authority in US Literary Culture 1750-1900” at Heidelberg University 
  
• July 10-11:
  Conference “The Continuity of Change” - Graduate School of JFK Institute at JFKI 
  

Poetry Festival Berlin (Poesiefestival Berlin 2009)

June 27-July 5. The 10th Poetry Festival Berlin (Poesiefestival Berlin 2009), organized by the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin and supported by the U.S. Embassy, will take place at the Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg). One of this year's focal points at the program will be poetry and literature in the United States. While on July 4, "American Day", a series of readings, workshops, concerts will feature American poets and artists like Rita Dove, Christian Hawkey, Claudia Keelan, Sherwin Bitsui, Saul Williams and Edwin Torres, the American guests will be present throughout the whole festival. Rita Dove will participate in the opening "Night of Poetry" as well as in workshops on July 3. For the complete schedule, please go to: www.literaturwerkstatt.org

"History in Literature: Fact and Fiction" – a Reading and Discussion with Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz

The U.S. Embassy Literature Series presents Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Geraldine Brooks and Tony Horwitz. The writing couple will discuss the interplay of historical fact and literary fiction.

• Frankfurt, July 7, 2009
  19:30, Bibliothekszentrum Sachsenhausen, Hedderichstraße 32, 60594 Frankfurt am Main
• Heidelberg, July 8, 2009
  20:00, Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Sofienstr. 12, 69115 Heidelberg, (06221) 60 73 0
• Hamburg, July 9, 2009
  Amerikazentrum, Hamburg-America-Center, Am Sandtorkai (Hafen City), (040) 7038 3688
• Wittenberg, July 10, 2009
  Zentrum für USA-Studien der Universität Halle-Wittenberg (closed to the public)

IAAF Athletics World Championships

August 14: IAAF Athletics World Championships / Tag der Nationen (performance by American singer Lisa Doby)

Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures

This widely acclaimed exhibition comes from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and was put together by LACMA and "Kunstprojekte Berlin". Next the show will be presented here:

• May 23 - Sep. 06, 2009 Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg
• Oct. 03 2009 - Jan 10, 2010 Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin

The June 16-18 conference “Deutsche Kunst im Kalten Krieg” (German Art in the Cold War), part of the additional program, was supported by the U.S. Embassy’s Public Affairs Section.

Randa Jarrar

Ms. Jarrar will read from her award winning novel A Map of Home (German: “Weiße Lügen“)
Randa Jarrar is a novelist, short story writer, and translator. Her first novel, A Map of Home, won the Hopwood and Geoffrey James Gosling Awards at the University of Michigan, where she received her MFA. Her translations from the Arabic have appeared in numerous anthologies including Words Without Borders: The World Through the Eyes of Writers. Jarrar translated the acclaimed Lebanese novel, Year of the Revolutionary New Bread-Making Machine (Saqi/Telegram Books). She is also a columnist for Make/Shift magazine.

Tour Dates 2009:

Munich, September 14, 19:30 (tbc.)
Karonlinenplatz 3, 80333 München

Tuebingen, September 15, 19:30 (tbc.)
Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Karlstr. 3, 72072 Tübingen

Berlin, September 16, 20:00
Museum für Islamische Kunst, Museumsinsel, Bodestr. 1 -3, 10178 Berlin
in cooperation with the Literaturfestival Berlin and the Ramadan Kulturfest
Tickets: (Tel. 030 2090-5401)

Kiel, September 17, 19:00
Literaturhaus Schleswig-Holstein, Schwanenweg 13, 24105 Kiel
organized by Amerika-Gesellschaft

Hamburg, September 18, 19:30 (tbc.)
Amerikazentrum Hamburg, Sandtorkai

Preview

September 30: Paul Beatty, writer: 20^th anniversary fall of the wall series, Kulturwerkstatt

October 10: Lisa See, writer: Frankfurt Book Fair program at Hessische Landesvertretung Berlin

Also check out our archive of past events in 2008.