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Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Große Bühne The Georg Dehio Book Prize 2008 Awards Ceremony
The authors, who have profoundly and sophisticatedly dealt with the traditions and interrelations of German culture and history, will be awarded the Georg Dehio Book Prize.
The German Cultural Forum, Eastern Europe will be conferring their first prize on Richard Wagner for his complete works and the honorary award on Andreas Kossert for his publication “Ostpreußen. Geschichte und Mythos”. The awards will be given by the representative of the Cultural Minister of State Ingeborg Berggreen-Merkel. The laudatory speech for Richard Wagner will be delivered by the Hungarian writer and historian György Dalos, and the speech for Andreas Kossert by the British historian Christopher Clark.
In cooperation with the German Cultural Forum, Eastern Europe
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Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Große Bühne A Tribute to Mahmud Darwisch
“Mahmud ist gone. Exile is over“, wrote Breyten Breytenbach shortly after the death of the great Palestinian poet Mahmud Darwisch. “For all of us”, according to Breytenbach, “he was a gauge. Perhaps we will stand still somewhere because we hear the beating of wings over our heads, and we will hold our hands to protect our eyes while we look heavenwards. For me, he will live on in this rhythm of the birds.” Frank Arnold, Volker Braun, Margarita Broich, Leila Chammaa, Tina Engel, Kathleen Gallego Zapata, Astrid Gorvin, Qassim Haddad, Amal al-Jubouri, Marel Khalifa, Adel Karasholi, Naomi Krauss, Jutta Lampe, Geno Lechner, Marie Löcker, Julia Malik, Chun Mei Tan, Friedhelm Ptok, Joachim Sartorius, Roland Schäfer, Nina West and others will read Darwisch poems in German translation. Claudia Ott will tell of his life. Translations by Hakam Abdel-Hadi / Rüdiger Vorbrüggen, Evelyn Agbaria, Mustafa Al-Sleiman / Volker Braun, Christine Battermann, Farouk S. Beydoun, Johanna and Moustapha Haikal, Adel Karasholi, Khalid al-Maaly / Heribert Becker, Stephan Milich, Angelika Neuwirth, Günther Orth, Claudia Ott, Annemarie Schimmel and Stefan Weidner will be read. Two-part event with interval
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