Nobel Prize Winner Herta Müller to Read in Jerusalem

Final Event of Joint Lecture Series of Freie Universität Berlin and Hebrew University of Jerusalem on German Literature on April 29. A year-long lecture series on German literature from the Middle Ages to the present that is being held jointly by the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Freie Universität Berlin is being concluded with an event devoted to the work of Herta Müller. On April 29, Herta Müller, the winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature will be reading excerpts from her work that have not yet been published in Hebrew. The text passages will be read in both German and Hebrew. Following the reading, Dr. Jürgen Brokoff, a professor of German at Freie Universität Berlin, will carry on a conversation with the author that gives the audience insight into her work. The main focus will be on the intercultural writing situation of the Romanian-born German writer. The reading and the discussion are part of the program of events that the two universities are holding during the anniversary year "Fifty Years of Diplomatic Relations between Germany and Israel." - During the past two semesters well-known scholars of German literature from Freie Universität Berlin and other German and international universities have been holding lectures as part of a course on German literature taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.