September Night of Literature 2014

A literary evening of contemporary writing in German, this event of prose and poetry includes conversations and readings by Heike Fiedler from Switzerland and Katharina Hagena from Germany.

A literary evening of contemporary writing in German, September Night of Literature is jointly hosted by the Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan and Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council. Moderated by the author Christopher Kloeble, this event of prose and poetry includes conversations and readings from books by German and Swiss authors.

Wednesday 24 September 2014 at 6:30 pm at
the Social 9A & 12 Hauz Khas Village, New Delhi - 110016
Entry open to all.

Programme:
8 pm Welcome note by Christopher Kloeble
8:10 - 8:55 pm Katharina Hagena in conversation with Manu Joseph
8:55 - 9:05 pm Tribute to Hugo Lötscher by Professor Rajendra Dengle
9:05 - 9:20 pm Break
9:20 - 9:30 pm Tribute to Urs Widmer by Professor Rekha Rajan
9:30 - 10:15 pm Heike Fiedler in conversation with Meena Kandasamy
10:15 - 10:30 pm Herta Müller readings in Hindi, German and English by Namita Khare, Ute Reimer and Chandrika Grover Ralleigh

Heike Fiedler / Switzerland 
Heike Fiedler, born in West-Germany (1963) is a Swiss author, multilingual poet, sound and visual artist living in Geneva. She performs her poetry with laptop, paper, modul8, realtime-electroncis, pencil. Since 2000, she is extensively performing in poetry festivals, music festivals, events for literature readings. (Schamrock - Festival der Dichterinnen, Munich; Notopos - Festival de poésies européennes, Val-de-Marne; @ptt, Geneva krikri - festival international de polypoetry, Gent; Internationales Lyrikfestival, Basel; Poésie en arrosoir, ; La Bâtie - Festival, Geneva etc). Heike collaborated in a research about performing authors (HKB, Bern, 2010). She gives workshops in field of creative and performance writing. She has collaborated with musicians of electro acoustic and improvisation, participated at the first edition of Festival Cotonou Jazz, member of IMO, shared stage with world's most important, international performing poets. Gender and condition of women's creation is an important topic in her work. She has been the recipient of the Fonds municipal d'art contemporain (Fmac) scholarship in Geneva and has received several awards from Geneva town and canton for her solo work, as well for the collaborative projects she realized. She has many publications in poetry magazines, anthologies, CD's. Her two last books are langues de meehr and sie will mehr (edition spoken skript, Luzern). Heike Fiedler has been awarded the Pro Helvetia artist in residency for three months from January till March 2015. Her homepage: www.realtimepoem.com 
Heike Fiedler will be in conversation with Meena Kandasamy
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Katharina Hagena / Germany Katharina Hagena was born in Karlsruhe in 1967. From 1986 until 1992 she studied English and German Literature in Marburg, London and Freiburg. 1994 she spent a research period at the James-Joyce-Foundation in Zurich and earned her doctorate on James Joyce's "Ulysses" in 1995. Until 1997 she lectured for the German Academic Exchange Service at Trinity College in Dublin and from 1998 until 2002 at the universities in Hamburg and Lüneburg also working as a translator. Since 2002 Katharina Hagena and her family live in Hamburg. Her first book Was die wilden Wellen sagen was published in 2006, followed in 2008 by Der Geschmack von Apfelkernen (The Taste of Apple Seeds). She has written two children's books Grausi schaut unter den Stein (2008) and Albert Albatros albert (2010). In 2012 Vom Schlafen und Verschwinden came out.
Katharina Hagena will be in conversation with Manu Joseph

Sound artist POL returns to collaborate with Mehneer Sudan

'Of Women' is a presentation by Indian choreographer and performer Mehneer Sudan in collaboration with Swiss sound artist POL.

Swiss musician and sound artist POL was on a residency awarded by Pro Helvetia - Swiss Arts Council in 2014. The opportunity gave him the chance to engage with Indian artists, one of them Indian choreographer, performer and teacher Mehneer Sudan who was working on her dance theatre piece, 'Of Women' for which POL has designed the sound.

'Of women' is a dance theatre piece that attempts to question the tension between expected gender roles and personal perceptions of feminine identity. The work has been created through an exploratory process that takes the form of an exhibition in the performance space.
Choreographed by Mehneer Sudan.
Sound design by POL

Performance
Friday 26 September & Saturday 27 September 2014 at 7:00 pm 
Venue: Goethe Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan 
Children below 16 years not allowed.

About the presentation 
What does it mean to be female? What does one do that makes her 'female'? How does one sit, stand, lie, kneel, walk, jump or represent the body in stillness or in action to be categorised as a 'woman'? How far is one's identity shaped by these expectations? 'Of women' is a dance theatre piece that attempts to question the tension between expected gender roles and personal perceptions of feminine identity. The work has been created through an exploratory process that takes the form of an exhibition in the performance space.

About POL 
Electronic music producer since the dawn of the nineties, nested between the persistant hammering of an electro dancefloor and the dark backstages of the post-industrial civilisation, POL infiltrates his music into the world by every mean. On screens, his productions have insinuated themselves in the arty zombies movie of cult director Bruce LaBruce and also in the very French Quand j'étais chanteur, with Cécile de France and Gérard Depardieu. He has co-written Water Lilly's music, electro-techno with a touch of pop glamour and cosmic atmospheres. Today, he pursues his conquest of space as a solo pilot.