Join us for a reading by Emine Sevgi Özdamar, in German with Q&A. 

Friday, March 21, 2014 at 5 PM in the Benjamin Franklin Room, Houston Hall, 2nd Floor, 3417 Spruce Street.

We are proud to welcome Turkish-German playwright, novelist, dramaturge, and actress Emine Sevgi Özdamar--without whom cross-cultural theater in Germany would be unthinkable--to present a reading and participate in our conversations. In the 1970s, she worked with Brecht disciple Benno Besson and Matthias Langhoff and later with Claus Peymann, one of the most renowned theater directors in Germany, at the Bochumer Theater. Her immense contributions include the short story collection Mutterzunge (Mother Tongue, 1990), featuring an epic version of her theater playKaragöz in Alamania (premiered in 1986), and her critically-acclaimed novel Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei (Life is a Caravanserai, 1992). These texts are milestones in fostering the recognition and acceptance of ethnically diverse literature in Germany.

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