Goethe Institut New York, Leo Baeck Institute, and Deutsches Haus at NYU present a reading and conversation with the author Lena Gorelik, and the literary scholars Saskia Fischer (Leibniz University Hannover), and Ela Gezen (University of Massachusetts Amherst).

Whether as a journalist, essayist, or author of novels, plays, and short stories, questions of belonging, migration, and the German memory culture, as well as the relationship between literature and sociopolitical engagement in general, play a central role in Lena Gorelik’s writing. In her texts, she not only draws attention to a pluralistic, post-migrant reality, but also presents it in all its ambivalence in an aesthetically complex manner. Her writing reflects on the possibilities of literature, but also on the voices and stories that receive little or no attention in the German public sphere.

Date and Time: Thursday, September 19, 6:00 to 8:00 PM

Location: Goethe Institut New York, 30 Irving Place, New York, NY 10003

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