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• Feridun Zaimoglu in Swansea (2008 and 1998)
• Esther Dischereit in Swansea (2003)
• Earlier Writers in Residence:
  • Herta Müller (1996)
  • Jurek Becker (1995)
  • Uwe Timm (1994)
  • Sarah Kirsch (1994)
  • Volker Braun (1994)
  • Peter Schneider (1993)
• British Comparative Literature Association: Plenary Lectures (2001)
• Other

Feridun Zaimoglu in Swansea (2008 and 1998)

In June 2008 the leading Turkish-German writer Feridun Zaimoglu came to Swansea as guest writer in residence at the Centre for Contemporary German Literature. On 25 June he gave a powerful reading from his novel Liebesbrand (2008). The event was recorded not only by SU Media Resources but also by a film crew from Avanti Media, making a documentary featuring Zaimoglu and Thees Uhlmann in the ARTE series 'Into the Night with ...', broadcast in September 2008. Following the reading, Zaimoglu answered questions on Romanticism and religion, musicality in prose, the novel as social comment, and his football allegiances. This was the afternoon before the Germany-Turkey football match at Euro 2008.

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Zaimoglu first came to Swansea a decade earlier, in November 1998, when the Centre for Contemporary German Literature hosted a conference on 'Postmigrant Turkish-German Culture: Transnationalism, Translation, Politics of Representation'. The conference was organised by Dr Tom Cheesman, Lecturer in the Department and Co-ordinator of the 'Axial Writing' Research Project.

On the first evening of the conference, Zaimoglu gave a sparkling reading from three of his books: Kanak Sprak: 24 Mißtöne vom Rande der Gesellschaft (1995), Abschaum: Die wahre Geschichte von Ertan Ongun (1997) and Koppstoff: Kanaka Sprak vom Rande der Gesellschaft (1998).

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Esther Dischereit in Swansea

In September 2003 the Department's Centre for Contemporary German Literature hosted a colloquium on the work of Esther Dischereit, organised by Dr Katharina Hall, Lecturer in the Department.

As a prelude to the Colloquium, at which she was also present, Esther Dischereit was Writer in Residence at the Centre in July/August 2003. During her visit she gave a bilingual reading in the Department, of an extract from her 1988 novel Joëmis Tisch, poems from the collections Als mir mein Golem ?ffnete (1996) and Raureifiger Mund (2001) - with English translations by, respectively, Tom Cheesman and Iain Galbraith - and an extract from her most recent collection of writings, Eichmann an der B?rse (2002).

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Earlier Writers in Residence

Herta Müller

• 3 October 1996: Reading and Discussion, Hunger und Seide (97 mins)
  Introduced by Professor Rhys Williams.
• 8 October 1996: Reading and Discussion, Reisende auf einem Bein (48 mins)
  Introduced by Dr Brigid Haines.
• 8 October 1996: Reading and Discussion, Niederungen (48-96 mins)
  Introduced by Dr Mererid Hopwood.

Jurek Becker

• 10 October 1995: Jurek Becker steht Rede und Antwort in GR-120 ("German Society and Fiction since 1945") (0-50 mins)
  Introduced by Dr David Basker.
• 12 October 1995: Reading from Amanda herzlos, followed by discussion (50-123 mins)
  Introduced by Dr Rolf Jucker.
• 12 October 1995: Jurek Becker steht Rede und Antwort in GR-420 ("The Novel and Society in the GDR, 1945-1990") (123-170 mins)
  Introduced by Professor Rhys Williams.

Uwe Timm

• October 25, 1994: Uwe Timm reads from his work (50 mins)
  Introduced by Professor Rhys Williams.

Sarah Kirsch

• 23 May 1994: Poetry Reading (51 mins)
  Introduced by Professor Rhys Williams.

Volker Braun

• 30 March 1994: Reading from his work and discussion (83 mins)
  Introduced by Professor Eda Sagarra, President of the Conference of University Teachers of German in Great Britain and Ireland.
  The event took place during the Swansea meeting of the CUTG.

Peter Schneider

• 2 December 1993: Research Seminar, 'Wiedervereiningung - das Ende der beider deutschen Literaturen?' (92 mins)
  Introduced by Professor Rhys Williams.

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British Comparative Literature Association: Plenary Lectures

In July 2001 the Ninth International Conference of the British Comparative Literature Association was held in Swansea, co-organised by Professor Large. The plenary lectures - by Gillian Beer, Margaret Anne Doody, Anthony Nuttall, Adam Phillips and John Sutherland - are available here.

Other

Professor Julian Preece's paper "Literarische Portraits von G?nter Grass", presented 28 September 2007 to the international conference "MedienGrass", Jacobs University, Bremen (26 mins).

BBC TV documentary "Human, All Too Human: Friedrich Nietzsche" (1999, 50 mins), including excerpts from interview with Professor Large.