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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>The Centre for Irish-German Studies invites you to come to a
reading by German author Brigitte Burmeister tomorrow, Friday 3-4pm in room A1053.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Brigitte Burmeister (b. 1940) studied Romance languages and
literatures in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Leipzig</st1:place></st1:City>
and following her doctorate obtained a position at the Institute for Romance Languages
and Literatures at the Berlin Academy of Science. In 1983 she published a
critical study of the French ‘nouveau roman’ and left the institute.
Her first novel ‘Anders oder vom Aufenthalt in der Fremde’ (1987)
was well received and understood as a Stasi novel. She has also made a name for
herself as translater. She is recipient of the German critics prize (1994), was
writer-in-residence at the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Warwick</st1:PlaceName> and Poet-in-residence at <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Duisburg</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Her publications include<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#F3F3FF'><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Freiheit,
Gleichheit, Eigentum - zu einigen Problemen der Staats- und
Gesellschaftstheorien in der französischen Aufklärung</span></font></i><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>,
Diss. Berlin 1973 <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#F3F3FF'><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Streit
um den Nouveau Roman - eine andere Literatur und ihre Leser</span></font></i><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>,
Berlin 1983 <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#F3F3FF'><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Anders
oder Vom Aufenthalt in der Fremde</span></font></i><font size=2
face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>,
Berlin 1987 <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#F3F3FF'><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Das
Angebot</span></font></i><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, Berlin 1990 (under the name
Liv Morten) <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#F3F3FF'><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Wir
haben ein Berührungstabu</span></font></i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, Hamburg 1991 (with
Margarete Mitscherlich) <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#F3F3FF'><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Unter
dem Namen Norma</span></font></i><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, Stuttgart 1994 <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#F3F3FF'><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Abendspaziergang</span></font></i><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>,
Berlin 1995 <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#F3F3FF'><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Herbstfeste</span></font></i><font
size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>,
Stuttgart 1995 <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#F3F3FF'><i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:italic'>Pollok
und die Attentäterin</span></font></i><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, Stuttgart 1999 <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
margin-left:18.0pt;background:#F3F3FF'><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Translations<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<ul type=disc>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#F3F3FF'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Pierre Bergounioux: <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Das rosa Haus</span></i>, Berlin 1991 <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#F3F3FF'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Alain Corbin: <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Das Dorf der Kannibalen</span></i>, Stuttgart
1992 <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#F3F3FF'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Alain Nadaud: <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Der andere Tod</span></i>, Stuttgart 2000 <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#F3F3FF'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Alain Nadaud: <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Eisschmelze</span></i>, Stuttgart 2003 <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
<li class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:#F3F3FF'><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bernard Vinot: <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>Saint-Just</span></i>, Stuttgart 1989 (übersetzt
unter dem Namen Franziska Saalburg) <o:p></o:p></span></font></li>
</ul>
<p style='line-height:11.25pt;background:white'><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span lang=EN style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:windowtext'>In
her novel <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Unter dem Namen Norma</span></i>, praised
as one of the best German language books of the 1990s and her most successful
book to-date, Brigitte Burmeister suspends time in the summer of 1992.
Snapshots with flashbacks: a Berlin block of flats in the middle of the city,
already somewhat shabby; a first-person narrator, already somewhat battered,
describes the changes in Germany through the focus of two long days:
‘Four years ago, eternity collapsed; since then time has been unleashed
and we wander like ghosts through old rooms and reassure ourselves that we are
here, as if we knew where that is’. ‘Memory thus becomes the
archivist’, says Burmeister, both of the emotions and of the sensuously
tangible East German world of things, which has almost entirely disappeared. </span></font><i><span
lang=DE style='font-style:italic'>Ursula Escherig: „Die Erinnerung, ein
Archivar" © Der Tagesspiegel, 31.08.1994</span></i><span lang=DE> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><br clear=all>
The reading will be in German.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-IE style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Brigitte Burmeister will also do a workshop for
postgraduate students 5.45-6.45 pm in A1050. This is part of the 7<sup>th</sup>
Masterclass for postgraduate students of the Centre for Irish-German Studies,
organised this time as a joined event with the international postgraduate
colloquium at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Mary</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Immaculate</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">College</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
‘The Fall of the Berlin Wall Revisited’ on Saturday 14.11.2009.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-IE style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-IE style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Admission Free<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-IE style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>All Welcome<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>For more information contact Gisela Holfter, ext 2395.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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