'Literature in New Zealand Aotearoa -
From Tuning Up to Many Voices'
Introduction into New Zealand's Literature
- Prof. Dr. Dieter Riemenschneider (Photo: Jan Kemp)
- Neuseeland fürs Handgepäck (Release in Autumn 2012)
Lecture by
Prof. Dr. Dieter Riemenschneider
Without literature only available on prescription the Berleburger Literaturpflaster would be unimaginable. Prof. Dr. Dieter Riemenschneider grants an insight into the literature of the host country.
Plenty of his publications deal with modern and the literature of the Maori in New Zealand. His enthusiasm and expertise are shown in his new work "Neuseeland fürs Handgepäck" and a collection of poems.
All guests can expect an exciting evening, that is literary promising and informative. The tradition of the literary appetizer is continued in the friendly atmosphere of the literature-drugstore.
Place:
Kur-Apotheke Wolter, Poststraße 15
Wednesday, September 26th 2012
Start:
8 p.m.
Entrance fee:
4,- € / 2,- €
Prof. Dr. Dieter Riemenschneider
From 1971 till 1999 Prof. Dr. Dieter Riemenschneider taught Commonwealth Literature, New English Literature and Culture at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University and founded a Research and Learning Center in 1993. His central interest is up to the English literature of India and Africa as well as the Australian Aborigines and New Zealand’s Maori literature.
In 1977 he constituted the Newsletter ACOLIT, which he published until 1999. From 1989 till 1993 he was the chairman of the company of New English Literature.
Prof. Dr. Riemenschneider: Lyric anthology Wildes Licht: Gedichte aus Aotearoa Neuseeland (2010; reprint 2012) He went for several lecture journeys and expeditions to Canada, West- , East- and Southeast-Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand and taught in India, New Zealand and France.
Publications
Publications of Riemenschneider are the co-publishing of Aratjara: Aboriginal Culture and Literature in Australia (1997), Andere Länder – andere Zeiten: Zeitgeschichten aus aller Welt (1997); a revised version of Shiva tanzt: Das Indien-Lesebuch (1999) as well as a collection of articles about the culture and literature of the Maori and Oceania.
He also published Postcolonial Theory: The Emergence of a Critical Discourse. A Selected and Annotated Bibliography (2004); Reise nach Indien: Kulturkompass fürs Handgepäck (Release in Autumn 2012) and the historic-critical survey The Indian Novel in English: Its Critical Discourse 1934-2004 (2005). The English-German lyric anthology Wildes Licht: Gedichte aus Aotearoa Neuseeland (2010; reprint 2012) was arranged by him and translated into German.
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