Greetings from the Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore! The Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, in collaboration with Toto Funds the Arts (TFA), is happy to invite you to a Literary Evening with award-winning German author Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Treichel. The event takes the form of a Panel Discussion on Issues In Contemporary German and Indian Literatures. Dr. Treichel will interact with stalwarts from the Indian literary scene in what is expected to be a lively and stimulating discussion. Event: Panel Discussion: Issues In Contemporary German and Indian Literatures Date: September 29, 2009 Time: 6.30 p.m. Venue: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan, Bangalore Free Entry. All are welcome! The Panelists include: Dr. Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Professor at the German Literature Institute, Leipzig; Prof. A R Venkatachalapathy, Professor, Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai; Dr. Vanamala Vishwanatha, Former Professor, Dept. of English, Bangalore University; Mr. Arul Mani, Reader in the English Department at St. Joseph's College, Bangalore More details at the Bhavan (2520 5305/6/7/8) or visit our website: www.goethe.de/bangalore Dr. Hans-Ulrich Treichel: Dr. Hans-Ulrich Treichel was born in Versmold, Westphalia, Germany in 1952. He now lives in Berlin and Leipzig. He was a student of German studies at the Free University of Berlin and obtained his doctoral degree on Wolfgang Koeppen. Since 1995 he is professor at the German Literature Institute, Leipzig. Hans-Ulrich Treichel has quickly developed a literary reputation in Germany for writing which has been lauded as readable, humorous and yet challenging. He enjoyed huge popular and critical success with the publication of his first major prose work, Der Verlorene (translated into English as Lost), in 1998. This work is a poignant re-working of an experience through which Treichel's own family went towards the end of the Second World War. This familial struggle with the past forms the core of Der Verlorene in particular, but his subsequent novels, Menschenflug [ A Man's Flight, 2005] and Anatolin (2008) also tackle this theme. Dr. Treichel has published widely on German literature of the modern period. Among many other awards he has received the Hermann Hesse Prize (2005) and Eichendorff Prize (2006). We look forward to welcoming you at the Bhavan on September 29th at 6.30p.m. Best regards, Sheshagiri Kulkarni Librarian Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan 716 CMH Road Indiranagar 1st Stage Bangalore 560 038 Ph: +91 80 2520 5305/06/07/08-206 Fax: +91 80 2520 5309 kulkarni@bangalore.goethe.org www.goethe.de/bangalore www.goethe.de/india -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.