{"id":7334,"date":"2017-05-11T10:58:43","date_gmt":"2017-05-11T09:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=7334"},"modified":"2017-05-11T14:40:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-11T13:40:42","slug":"robert-seethaler-reading-at-austrian-cultural-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/05\/11\/robert-seethaler-reading-at-austrian-cultural-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Seethaler reading at Austrian Cultural Forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/staff\/kunzelmann.html\">Dr Heide Kunzelmann<\/a>, Lecturer in German in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/modern-languages\/index.html\">Department of Modern Languages<\/a>, has co-organised with the Austrian Cultural Forum a reading by Robert Seethaler, as part of her role as Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk\/ingeborg-bachmann-centre-austrian-literature\">Ingeborg Bachmann Centre for Austrian Literature and Culture<\/a> at the Institute of Modern Languages Research (School of Advanced Studies, University of London). The reading will take place on Tuesday 16 May 2017 at the Austrian Cultural Forum, London.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Seethaler was born in Vienna in 1966. He is the author of five novels, including <em>The Tobacconist <\/em>(Picador, 2016) and the Internationally acclaimed <em>A Whole life <\/em>(Picador, 2015) which was shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize in 2016. He also works as an actor in film, TV and theatre, most recently in Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s film <em>Youth<\/em>\u00a0(2015).<em>\u00a0<\/em>Seethaler divides his time between Vienna and Berlin and will be the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre\u2019s writer-in-residence in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The way the lives and deaths of Seethaler\u2019s unassuming heroes, intertwined with the history of Austria in the 1920s, 1930s and post-War times, present us with a rich canvas of ordinary lives devoid of sentimentality, where fictional encounters with famous Austrians like Sigmund Freud are not all that strange.<\/p>\n<p>Seethaler and UK actor Joseph Kloska (<em>The Crown, Made in Dagenham<\/em>) will read in German and English followed by a panel discussion moderated by Heide Kunzelmann\u00a0with Robert Seethaler and his\u00a0translator Charlotte Collins.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acflondon.org\/booking\/?event=robert-seethaler-reading\">www.acflondon.org\/booking\/?event=robert-seethaler-reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Heide Kunzelmann, Lecturer in German in the Department of Modern Languages, has co-organised with the Austrian Cultural Forum a reading by Robert Seethaler, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2017\/05\/11\/robert-seethaler-reading-at-austrian-cultural-forum\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5829,"featured_media":7335,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[135858,124],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7334"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7357,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7334\/revisions\/7357"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}