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European Literature Days 2018 | Day 4
Posted by llinca Florian | Permalink | filed under: European Literature Days: daily blogs, 2018
Accompanied by wonderful music from the “Contraston” trio, a chamber music ensemble from Budapest, whose creative repertoire includes both Baroque and Jazz, the European Literature Days 2018 draw to ...
European Literature Days 2018 | Day 3
Posted by llinca Florian | Permalink | filed under: European Literature Days: daily blogs, 2018
It is Saturday afternoon and there is plenty of lively activity again at Schloss Spitz after the initial effects have been overcome of a long night drinking wine by some more than others. Yesterday, ...
European Literature Days Day 02 – Back to school
Posted by llinca Florian | Permalink | filed under: European Literature Days: daily blogs, 2018
I was given full poetic licence for the presentation of this blog. Because – at least here in Spitz an der Donau, and in Krems and far beyond on all the small plots...
European Literature Days 2018 | Day 1
Posted by llinca Florian | Permalink | filed under: European Literature Days: daily blogs, 2018
It is seven o’clock in the evening and the opening of the European Literature Days 2018 is imminent. We – that means almost 40 writers, filmmakers, editors, several creative artists and journalists...
European Literature Days 2017 | Day 3
Posted by Rasha Khayat | Permalink | filed under: 2017, European Literature Days: daily blogs
After an eventful first day with plenty of topics to discuss, Saturday in Spitz happily continued at a gentler and more relaxed pace. Yet the programme was no less engaging.
European Literature Days 2017 | Day 2
Posted by Rasha Khayat | Permalink | filed under: 2017, European Literature Days: daily blogs
The first day’s programme here in Spitz was packed full to bursting. That doesn’t make the task of this chronicle writer any easier to give a retrospective account of the high-calibre panel ...
European Literature Days 2016: Daily Blogs / 6.11.
Posted by Peter Zimmermann | Permalink | filed under: 2016, European Literature Days: daily blogs
The “Frühling der Barbaren” or “Barbarians’ Spring” lasts all year round. It’s always...
European Literature Days 2016: Daily Blogs / 5.11.
Posted by Peter Zimmermann | Permalink | filed under: 2016, European Literature Days: daily blogs
Najem Wali tells me a story. In February, he was invited to Tunis with other European writers. The visit...
European Literature Days 2016: Daily Blogs / 4.11.
Posted by Peter Zimmermann | Permalink | filed under: 2016, European Literature Days: daily blogs
Last year, here in Spitz discussions revolved around the theme of the migrants – those writers who have left their homelands and mostly also...
The world must be romanticized/ Die Welt muss romantisiert werden
Posted by Peter Zimmermann | Permalink | filed under: 2015, European Literature Days: daily blogs
The world must be romanticized. Only in this way will one rediscover its original senses.