Martin Dean to visit Delhi and Pune

Martin Dean, writer of Meine Väter (My Father) will read excerpts from his book and talk about his work to students in Delhi and Pune.

Martin Dean, writer of Meine Väter (My Father) will read excerpts from his book and talk about his work to students in Delhi and Pune. The work and the novel of Martin Dean will be introduced by Prof. Alexander Honold, well-known expert in German literature.  

Programme:

Monday, 2 March 2009   Department of Germanic and Romance Studies Arts Faculty, Delhi University

Martin Dean reading in German from his novel Meine Väter.

Introduction and moderation by Prof. Honold.

Time: 1430 - 1600 hrs

Tuesday, 3 March 2009  

Centre of German Studies, School of Lanugages, Literature and Culture Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Martin Dean reading in German from his novel Meine Väter.

Introduction and moderation by Prof. Honold.

Time: 1400 - 1600 hrs

Wednesday, 4 March 2009   Committee Room, School of Lanugages, Literature and Culture Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi   Lecture by Prof. Honold in Englsh: Music as Site and Tool in Edward Said's Postcolonial Critique" Time: 1100 - 1300 hrs 

Thursday, 5 March 2009 Department of Germanic and Romance Studies Arts Faculty, Delhi University  International Conference on “Imagined Horizons” – moderation by Prof. HonoldTime: 1415 hrs 
Friday, 6 March 2009   Goethe Institute Max Mueller Bhavan Goethe Insitute, Boat Club Road, Pune Martin Dean Reading in German from his novel Meine VäterIntroduction and moderation by Prof. Honold. Time: 1130 - 1300 hrs Teachers training workshop by Martin Dean and Prof Honold Time: 1830 - 1930 hrs 
Saturday, 7 March 2009 Ranade Institute, University of Pune Fergusson Road, Near Deccan Gymkhana, Pune Teachers training workshop for teachers of German as a Foreign Language Time: 1000 - 1300 hrs
Dean lives and works as a free writer and publicist in Basel. In 1976, he obtained his university entrance diploma at grammar school in Aarau. In 1977, he began studying German, philosophy, and ethnology at Universität Basel. In 1986, he finished his studies with a licentiate work about Hans Henny Jahnn’s novel "Perrudja", and graduated summa cum laude.  

He travelled extensively and lived abroad for many years, in places such as South America, Portugal, France, Greece and Italy. From 1990 to 1998, he taught at the Schule für Gestaltung (School for Design) in Basel. In 1999, he started teaching German and philosophy at the grammar school in Muttenz.    

Awards 1983 "Rauriser Literaturpreis" for Die verborgenen Gärten 1988/89 Stipend at "Istituto Svizzero" in Rome 1994 Complete work price of the Swiss Schiller Foundation 1997 Guest lecturer as "Poet in residence" at the “Gesamthochschule Essen”2003 Single work price of the Swiss Schiller Foundation  

Works Die verborgenen Gärten, novel, 1982 Die gefiederte Frau. Fünf Variationen über die Liebe, 1984 Der Mann ohne Licht, novel, 1988 Außer mir. Ein Journal, 1990 Der Guayanaknoten, novel, 1994 Die Ballade von Billie und Joe, novel, 1997 Monsieur Fume oder Das Glück der Vergeßlichkeit, 1998 Meine Väter, novel, 2003

Zwischen Fichtenbaum und Palme. Kommentierte Textsammlung für den interkulturellen Deutschunterricht an Mittelschulen, 2005  

For more information on Martin Dean visit: www.mrdean.ch