Saint Hieronymus Day 2015
DAI - Gallery Upstairs
- Věra Koubová, Otto Engelhardt & Peter Staengle
- Finissage
- Vernissage
“… dabei liebe ich doch gar nicht Dich…“ (metaphor in Franz Kafka‘s letters to Milena Jesenská)
At this finissage event, Koubová will present Kafka’s so-called “Milena letters” and will reflect on the difficulties associated with the translation of metaphors. Otto Engelhardt, Franco-German Pianist, has composed a musical “translation” of the Milena letters for Koubová, Peter Staengle, a contributor to the “Historisch-Kritischen Franz-Kafka-Ausgabe”, edits three of the Milena letters into the form of a fax.
Speaker: Věra Koubová, Music: Otto Engelhardt, Moderation: Peter Staengle.
Organiser: Weltlesebühne e. V. in cooperation with DAI and Heidelberg library for the first Heidelberg Literature Autumn. With the support of Heidelberg Culture Office as part of the UNESCO City of Literature project.
Admission is free.