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7:00 PM,
Katerina Poladjan - A Reading from her Work
Reading|Achill Heinrich Böll Memorial Weekend
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St. Thomas' Church, Acaill, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Language English
- Price €30
The Annual Heinrich Böll Memorial Weekend takes place on Achill Island 3 - 5 May 2024 with an international panel of writers and speakers.
Wiebke Acton (with Goethe-Institut Irland) will read from Katerina Poladjan's Upheaval, with musical accompaniment by Brian Acton.
The book: Upheaval
This is a story of change: in the vast Siberian expanse, one thousand versts east of Moscow, a grandmother, mother, daughter, and granddaughter live together in one room of a communal apartment, beneath crumbling plaster that hearkens back to bygone days. It is 11 March, the start of a new era that no one can yet anticipate. Life continues as normal. The engineer next door tries to sort his life into little boxes; Varvara helps deliver a baby; Maria dreams of love; and Yanka wants to sing in the kitchen at night. Upheaval is a powerful novel about four lives on a turning-point, a lost world whose tremors we can still feel today.
In this incisive chronicle of our time, Katerina Poladjan shows once again that German literature is, above all, European literature. Upheaval is a timeless novel replete with tender humour that turns to the age-old, yet ever-pressing question of how we should live.
"One could say that [Katerina Poladjan] has written the 'book of the hour' that must be read now, in the face of Russian Great Power fantasies." - Der SPIEGEL, Xaver von Cranach
"Katerina Poladjan has written one of the very great contemporary German novels, which is read differently now in times of war than it was in times of peace." — ARD, Denis Scheck
“Upheaval is the quintessence of a novel: as powerful and beautiful and clear as thirty novels.” — Monika Rinck
The author: Katerina Poladjan
Katerina Poladjan was born in Moscow, grew up in Rome and Vienna, and lives in Germany. She is an author, and former actress who writes theatre texts and essays. Her prose debut In einer Nacht woanders was followed by Maybe Marseille, and together with Henning Fritsch, she wrote the literary travelogue Hinter Sibirien. She was nominated for the Alfred Döblin Prize as well as for the European Prize of Literature, and took part in the Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt in 2015. For Hier sind Löwen, she received scholarships from the German Literature Fund, the Berlin Senate and the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbal. In 2021, she was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize of the City of Dortmund. Katerina Poldjan was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Far Prize 2022 with Zukunftsmusik and was awarded the Rheingau Literature Prize 2022.
The reader: Wiebke Acton
Upheaval will be read by actress and translator Wiebke Acton. Originally from Germany, now based in England, Wiebke has been performing on stage for 20 years. Her work spans a range of theatre forms including devised, physical and site-specific theatre as well as theatre for young audiences. As an associate artist at the Globe Berlin, she regularly performs Shakespeare and German classics in both German and English languages. Wiebke holds an MA in Literary Translation. As part of her dissertation, she translated Charles Way’s play The Gift which is now published in Germany. Currently, Wiebke is a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds investigating ‘Transnational Theatre-Making’.
The musician: Brian Acton
Wiebke will be accompanied by her husband Brian - a skilled musician who has distant roots in the live music scene of Ireland. After moving to England in 2002, he established himself as a versatile guitarist and an imaginative jazz arranger. Brian now creates immersive audio environments in non-traditional places such as forests and urban centres.
Book your tickets here.
Wiebke Acton (with Goethe-Institut Irland) will read from Katerina Poladjan's Upheaval, with musical accompaniment by Brian Acton.
The book: Upheaval
This is a story of change: in the vast Siberian expanse, one thousand versts east of Moscow, a grandmother, mother, daughter, and granddaughter live together in one room of a communal apartment, beneath crumbling plaster that hearkens back to bygone days. It is 11 March, the start of a new era that no one can yet anticipate. Life continues as normal. The engineer next door tries to sort his life into little boxes; Varvara helps deliver a baby; Maria dreams of love; and Yanka wants to sing in the kitchen at night. Upheaval is a powerful novel about four lives on a turning-point, a lost world whose tremors we can still feel today.
In this incisive chronicle of our time, Katerina Poladjan shows once again that German literature is, above all, European literature. Upheaval is a timeless novel replete with tender humour that turns to the age-old, yet ever-pressing question of how we should live.
"One could say that [Katerina Poladjan] has written the 'book of the hour' that must be read now, in the face of Russian Great Power fantasies." - Der SPIEGEL, Xaver von Cranach
"Katerina Poladjan has written one of the very great contemporary German novels, which is read differently now in times of war than it was in times of peace." — ARD, Denis Scheck
“Upheaval is the quintessence of a novel: as powerful and beautiful and clear as thirty novels.” — Monika Rinck
The author: Katerina Poladjan
Katerina Poladjan was born in Moscow, grew up in Rome and Vienna, and lives in Germany. She is an author, and former actress who writes theatre texts and essays. Her prose debut In einer Nacht woanders was followed by Maybe Marseille, and together with Henning Fritsch, she wrote the literary travelogue Hinter Sibirien. She was nominated for the Alfred Döblin Prize as well as for the European Prize of Literature, and took part in the Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt in 2015. For Hier sind Löwen, she received scholarships from the German Literature Fund, the Berlin Senate and the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbal. In 2021, she was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize of the City of Dortmund. Katerina Poldjan was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Far Prize 2022 with Zukunftsmusik and was awarded the Rheingau Literature Prize 2022.
The reader: Wiebke Acton
Upheaval will be read by actress and translator Wiebke Acton. Originally from Germany, now based in England, Wiebke has been performing on stage for 20 years. Her work spans a range of theatre forms including devised, physical and site-specific theatre as well as theatre for young audiences. As an associate artist at the Globe Berlin, she regularly performs Shakespeare and German classics in both German and English languages. Wiebke holds an MA in Literary Translation. As part of her dissertation, she translated Charles Way’s play The Gift which is now published in Germany. Currently, Wiebke is a PhD researcher at the University of Leeds investigating ‘Transnational Theatre-Making’.
The musician: Brian Acton
Wiebke will be accompanied by her husband Brian - a skilled musician who has distant roots in the live music scene of Ireland. After moving to England in 2002, he established himself as a versatile guitarist and an imaginative jazz arranger. Brian now creates immersive audio environments in non-traditional places such as forests and urban centres.
Book your tickets here.
Location
St. Thomas' Church
DUMHA GOIRT
Acaill, Co. Mhaigh Eo
F28 NY97
Ireland
DUMHA GOIRT
Acaill, Co. Mhaigh Eo
F28 NY97
Ireland