Literary Serial and Goethe-Institut present:

Joint Text-performance of Enthusiasten

Enthusiasten:

Jochen Schmidt

“Showing remarkable timing I was born on 9.11.1970 in East-Berlin, so this day became of special importance for our nation. In my childhood I
was shifted as a wrestler, a weight-lifter, a swimmer, a mathematician, but never as a football-player, since football was too extensive for the GDR sports-system (11 players and only 1 possible gold-medal…) Neither in school we played football, because only teamsports for girls and boys where allowed, so we had to play some
sort of hockey with a rubber-ring and a stick. how could I nevertheless have become such a good player as we had only concrete-pitches in our neighbourhood, like in Malta, and that was the
hardest school. I studied romane and slavian languages and since it's impossible to
make a living of philology or other serious matters, I had to write books. From 1999 on I am reading weekly new stories in my lesebuhne
(reading-show) Chaussee der enthusiasten (www.enthusiasten.de)”

Curriculum Vitae:

•2000 "Triumphgemuse" C.H.Beck
•2002 "Muller haut uns raus", C.H.Beck
•2003 "Seine grossen Erfolge", DTV
•2003 "Literaturtandem" – scholarship in Sarajevo
•2004 "Gebrauchsanweisung fur die Bretagne", Piper
•2004 Award of the "Kasseler Literaturpreis for grotesque humor"
•2005 "Chaussee der Enthusiasten - Anthologie", Verlag Voland&Quist
•July, 2006 – January, 2007 "Schmidt reads Proust", Blog (www.vertr.antville.org)
•2007 "Meine wichtigsten Korperfunktionen", C.H.BECK

Andreas Kampa

Andreas Kampa is born in 1970 in Berlin and had studied computer science. Since 2002 is a member of the "Chaussee der Enthusiasten” He has publications in the anthology "Chaussee der Enthusiasten" as well as other publications in the “Taz” newspaper and the “Salbader” magazine. He is presented in the Chaussee der Enthusiasten‘s magazine “Brillenschlange". Since 2002 he is mainly acting as a performing reader of short humorous stories.

VBV

VBV is born in 1977, Sofia and is an author of all kinds of poetry and prose, and of the book "Th:is." (2000). He has several national awards. VBV is particularly interested in the Near East and its archives. More: vbv.bg

Angel Igov

Angel Igov is a fiction writer, literary critic and translator. He is author of two books with short stories “Meetings on the road” (2002) and “K” (2006). Angel is a cofounder of the Liturne – an initiative of street readings by group of young authors. He is currently a literature observer of the Culture weekly and TV7.

Art Group “Ustata” ("The Mouth)"

Kamelia Spassova is born 24.04.1982, Sofia. Student of Bulgarian Philology, Faculty of Slavic Philologies, Sofia University with a M.A. degree of Literary Theory, 2006. She is a PH.D student of Literary Theory at the same University. A cofoundation member of an art-group “Ustata” (’The Mouth’).

Maria Kalinova is born 11.06.1983, Sliven. Student of Bulgarian Philology, Faculty of Slavic Philologies, Sofia University with a M.A. degree of Literary Theory, 2006. She is a PH.D student of Bulgarian Literature of the Revival Period at the same University. Her first poetry book “Okoto” (’The Eye’) is published in 1994. A cofoundation member of an art-group “Ustata” (’The Mouth’).

May 19 (Saturday), 8.00 p.m.
Red hall
In German and Bulgarian.

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