Literaturforum Indien e.V.

The Worlds We Create — Poetry Reading

Literarisches Zentrum Göttingen, in cooperation with the Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) and Literaturforum Indien e.V., supported by Brot für die Welt.

Reading Tour: Syed Kashif Raza — »Vier Derwische und eine Schildkröte«

Passages in German, conversation in English.

• 4 May 2025, 16:00 — Mainz, Wohnzimmerbibliothek, Emrichruhstr. 7
• 6 May 2025, 18:00 — Frankfurt, Porzellan Museum im Kronberger Haus, Bolongarostraße 152
• 8 May 2025, 19:00 — Munich, Internationales Begegnungszentrum der Wissenschaft, Amalienstraße 38
• 10 May 2025 — Schwerte, Evangelische Akademie Villigst (Annual Conference)
• 13 May 2025, 18:00 — Heidelberg, CATS (Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies), University of Heidelberg

Reading Tour: Alka Saraogi — »Entwurzelt«

Novel, translated from Hindi by Almuth Degener, Draupadi Verlag 2024.

• 27 Jun 2024, 18:30 — Heidelberg, feeLit – International Literature Festival, Spiegelzelt, Universitätsplatz
• 29 Jun 2024, 19:00 — Mainz, Indien-Bibliothek, Emrichruhstr. 7
• 1 Jul 2024, 19:00 — Göttingen, Kunstverein, Nikolaistraße 22 (reading and conversation with curator Nicola E. Petek)

feeLit Festival Heidelberg

Alka Saraogi, photo: private

Göttingen, photo: A. Wais

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Reading Tour: Geetanjali Shree

• 29 Jun 2023, 21:00 — Heidelberg, feeLit – International Literature Festival, Spiegelzelt, Universitätsplatz
• 4 Jul 2023, 16:00 — Würzburg, University, Lecture Hall 4, Philosophy Building (in English)
• 6 Jul 2023, 19:00 — Göttingen, Literarisches Zentrum, Nikolaistraße 22 (in English)
• 7 Jul 2023, 19:00 — Hanover, Deutsch-Indische Gesellschaft (in English)
• 12 Jul 2023, 20:30 — Zurich, 11. Literaturfestival, Alter Botanischer Garten, Talstrasse 71

Photo: Gagan Brar

Reading Tour: Martin Kämpchen — »Mein Leben in Indien. Zwischen den Kulturen zu Hause«

Martin Kämpchen presents his autobiography published by Patmos Verlag: Publisher information

• 22 Apr — Hanover · 29 Apr — Aachen · 2 May — Vienna · 3 May — Salzburg
• 4 May — Dachau · 5 May — Munich · 10 May — Münster · 17 May — Aachen
• 18 May — Welkenraedt · 25 May — Schwarzach am Main · 29 May — Darmstadt · 20 Jun — Cologne

Staged Readings: Manuka Wijesinghe — »Ein Mann des Mittleren Weges«

With Jayantha Gomes (percussion).

• 9 Nov 2019, 18:00 — Mainz, Library of Indology, Gutenberg-Institut, Colonel Kleinmann-Weg 2 (Building SB II, ground floor, admission free)
• 21 Nov 2019, 19:00 — Darmstadt, Literaturhaus, Kasinostr. 3

International Literature Festival Berlin

As part of the Berlin Literature Festival (11–21 September 2019), two events featured authors from India:

• 14 Sep, 20:00: Meena Kandasamy — When I Hit You
• 15 Sep, 18:00: Benyamin — Goat Days

Reading Tour: Sara Rai — Winner of the Coburg Rückert Prize

• 5 May, 16:00 — Nossen (near Meissen), castle courtyard
• 10 May, 11:30 — Frankfurt, Indian Consulate General
• 13 May, 14:00–18:00 — Mainz, Library of Indology (reading and workshop)
• 14 May, 18:00 — Tübingen, Neue Aula, 1st floor, Lecture Hall 10
• 17 May, 19:30 — Coburg, Kunstverein, Park 4a
• 18 May, 19:30 — Wetzlar, »Phantastische Bibliothek«, Turmstraße 20
• 19 May, 17:30 — Heidelberg, Heidelberger Literaturtage
• 22 May, 17:00 — Neuss, Burgunderstr. 9
• 24–26 May — Schwerte, Evangelische Akademie Villigst (reading and workshop)

Photo: Sohail Akbar

Readings: Geetanjali Shree — »Im leeren Raum«

• 29 Apr 2019, 18:00 — Berlin, Indian Embassy
• 30 Apr 2019, 19:30 — Münster, Im alten Backhaus (DIG Münster)

Photo: Nicola Pozza

Reading Tour: Rahman Abbas — »Die Stadt, das Meer, die Liebe«

Following the annual conference of Literaturforum Indien e.V., Rahman Abbas presented his Mumbai novel together with his translator Almuth Degener.

• 29 May, 19:00 — Schönau, Pfälzer Hof
• 1 Jun, 11:00 — Frankfurt, Indian Consulate General
• 2 Jun, 19:30 — Mainz-Gonsenheim, Stadtteiltreff
• 8 Jun, 17:00 — Heidelberg, South Asia Institute
• 12 Jun, 18:15 — Bonn, University, Senate Hall
• 13 Jun, 19:00 — Frankfurt-Höchst, Café Mouseclick

Photo: Carla Peca

Uday Prakash in Bonn

The University of Bonn and Literaturforum Indien e.V. jointly invited guests to a reading of selected passages from Uday Prakash's works translated into German on 12 December 2017, 18:00. The author read brief excerpts in Hindi himself, then took part in a lively discussion in English.

Visitors were particularly interested in the author's controversy with the Sahitya Akademi (India's national academy of letters), whose award he returned in 2015 in protest against the academy's lack of solidarity following the politically motivated murder of another laureate.

Reading: Chudamani Raghavan — »Der Nagalingabaum«

The German-Indian Society Bonn/Cologne invited guests to a musical-literary evening on 11 September 2017, 19:00, at the Karl Rahner Akademie, Jabachstr. 4–8, 50676 Cologne.

Prof. em. Dr. Dieter B. Kapp, Indologist and laureate of the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz Medal and the Rabindranath Tagore Cultural Prize, read from his translation of Chudamani Raghavan's short story collection Der Nagalingabaum. The author critically examines entrenched social traditions in her stories.

Reading Tour: Geetanjali Shree — »Mai«, »Unsere Stadt in jenem Jahr«, »Weißer Hibiskus«

• 4 Nov — Munich, Alpines Museum, Praterinsel 5
• 5 Nov — Herrsching, Alte Schule, Luitpoldstraße 20
• 6 Nov — Stuttgart, Stadtbibliothek am Mailänder Platz
• 11 Nov — Katlenburg, 37191 Katlenburg-Lindau
• 14 Nov — Nuremberg, DIG, Königstrasse 64
• 19 Nov — Darmstadt, Literaturhaus, Kasinostraße 3
• 22 Nov — Krefeld, Südbahnhof, Saumstraße 9 (matinée)
• 24 Nov — Bochum, Bahnhof Langendreer, Wallbaumweg 108