Friday, March 16, 2007, 2:00pm, Tory Building, Room 210
Public Reading:
Esther Dischereit, Author and poet.
Mama, Am I Allowed to Sing the Germany Song?
Based in Berlin, author Esther Dischereit is one of the most prominent Jewish and feminist intellectual voices in contemporary Germany. Dischereit’s novels, poems, plays and essays explore what it means to be Jewish in postwar and post-Holocaust Germany. Her works include Joëmi‘s Table, Merryn, When My Golem Opened the Door, Hoarfrosted Mouth and Other News, A Slice of Bread Sits in the Toaster, Exercises in Being Jewish, and With Eichmann at the Stock Exchange. Together with director Michal Otlowski, she co-wrote the screenplay for the film A Dress from Warsaw a German-Polish co-production which recently premiered in Berlin.