Gabriele Petricek
…Ich ging und dachte nach. Über die Liebe, Begehren und über das Leben im Allgemeinen. Über Shella und über Herrn Wenzel. Über meine Rolle in diesem Spiel. Zunächst ging ich zu der Optikerin. Für die Multifokalbrille, die ich zurückgab, weil sie in den Sehbereichen des Überganges Unschärfen zuließ, hat mir die Optikerin zwei neue Brillen geschliffen. Eine für die Nähe. Und eine für die Ferne. (aus “Die Optikerin”)
LITERATURE READING
in German and English
by
Austrian writer
GABRIELE PETRICEK
on
Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007
Time
5 p.m
in the
MAX KADE CENTER for GERMAN STUDIES
(Pardee 429)
Refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by the Max Kade Foundation and
the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
L I T E R A T U R E R E A D I N G
in German & English
by
Austrian writer Gabriele Petricek
Gabriele Petricek is the Fall 2010 Max Kade writer-in-residence in German Studies. She is an award-winning novelist and author of short stories. During her residency at Lafayette College, she is working with students in advanced German classes and working on a second trilogy.
Gabriele Petricek was trained as a fashion designer before moving into journalism and creative writing. She now lives and works in Vienna as an author and journalist, with a particular focus on art and architecture. She has won several literature awards and grants. In 2005, she was nominated for the Ingeborg Bachmann Award by jury member Burkhard Spinnen, and has since been invited as a writer-in-residence in Italy, Slovenia, Great Britain and the USA . Petricek’s most recent book, Von den Himmeln, Triptych, a series of three interlinked short stories, followed the collection of short stories entitled Zimmerfluchten, which was published in 2005.
English translation read by Meredith Castor ‘ 10
(current Marshall Scholarship Finalist)
Thu, NOVEMBER 18, 2010
4:00pm – 6:00pm
Max Kade Center for German Studies
Pardee 429
Refreshments will be served.
Sponsored by Max Kade Center for German Studies and the Dept. of Foreign Lang. & Literatures.
Contact Information: Prof. Margarete Lamb-Faffelberger, lambfafm@lafayette.edu