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Lecture: GREGOR HENS (Columbia, OH/Berlin)
4/26/2004
4:00 PM3335 Dwinelle Hall
The German Department's Bonwit-Heine Lecture Series and the Goethe Institut, San Francsico present
Gregor Hens
Lesung und Gespräch
(in German & English)
Monday 26 April
4:00 pm, 3335 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley or
7:30 pm, Goethe-Institut Auditorium, 530 Bush Street, San Francisco
Two opportunities to attend!
One of Germany's finest young authors, Gregor Hens, professor of German at Ohio State University, will read from his works, which have earned high praise from German critics. Himmelsturz (2002), acclaimed by Die Welt as the "best debut novel" of the year, tells the story of a German-American professor whose perfect marriage is called into question when he and his spouse hire an architect to build their dream house. Transfer Lounge (2003), a collection of transatlantic short stories, is a "literary answer to the terror attacks in New York" (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), dealing with passion, force, unexpected shocks, and sudden turns of events in the lives of the protagonists. And in his latest book Matta verläßt seine Kinder (2004), Karsten Matta, a post-conflict analyst for an international consulting company, decides one day, while waiting at the Pakistani embassy, to escape his past. "A book about love and despair, an original story, which goes to the heart of our time." (Fischer Verlag)
Contributing regularly to Die Zeit and other newspapers as well as publishing academic texts in linguistics, poetics, and composition, Hens divides his time between his two residencies in Ohio and Berlin.
For more information: http://germanic.osu.edu/people/person.cfm?ID=52