06.05.2024 - Dienstag, den 05. März 2024: This month we are introducing a book about childhood. The book is ‘Boyhood, Scenes from Provincial Life’, a fictionalized, autobiographical novel, by J.M. Coetzee, published in 1997. J.M. Coetzee is one of...
27.02.2024 - Assembly by Natasha Brown Today’s book is author Natasha Brown’s first novel. It caused quite a stir in the literary world when it was published in 2019. The book is set in the late summer of 2019. The blurb on the back cover of the novel...
25.02.2024 - Hörspiel nach einem Text von Stefan Schmitzer
08.01.2024 - Dienstag, den 02. Jänner 2024: The Latecomer by Jean Hanff KorelitzThe book we introduce this month is The Latecomer by Jean Hanff Korelitz, an American novelist, playwright, theatre producer and essayist. Published in 2022, it tells the...
28.12.2023 - Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud The book we introduce this month is Love After Love by Ingrid Persaud, published in 2020. Ingrid Persaud was born in Trinidad and moved to London at the age of 18. She studied law and pursued an academic career,...
13.11.2023 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 07. November 2023:On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean VuongThe book we introduce is On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, published in 2019. The author, Ocean Vuong, is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist...
13.10.2023 - V Ljubljani so predstavili Manifest o branju na višji ravni, ki bo eden od temeljev slovenskega programa v Frankfurtu. Manifest so poleg Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung v Nemčiji objavili številni evropski mediji. Manifest med drugim poudarja,...
09.10.2023 - Speziell zur Sendung am Dienstag, den 03. Oktober 2023: Reading Circle – summer programme This is the last of our three summer programmes when we are revisiting some of the books we read last year, while the Reading Circle has its summer...
09.10.2023 - Dienstag, den 05. September 2023: Reading Circle – Summer Programme During the summer months we have a break from our Reading Circle and so, for the three summer months we will be looking back at some of the books we have read in the last...
24.09.2023 - Das fröhliche Wohnzimmer und PS/ Politisch Schreiben präsentieren literarische O-Töne – dieses Mal von: # Erika Kronabitter: Gedichte aus dem “kleinen bunten Lyrikheft” (edition Das fröhliche Wohnzimmer) # Elke Steiner:...
07.08.2023 - Reading Circle – Summer Programme During the summer months we have a break from our Reading Circle and so, for the next three programmes we will be looking back at some of the books we have read in the last year. Today we are going to...
24.07.2023 - Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia Today’s novel was first published in 2021. It is the first novel by Gabriela Garcia, a fiction writer, poet and journalist. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award and a Steinbeck...
19.06.2023 - A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews The introduction on the back cover reads: ‘Sixteen-year -old Nomi Nickel longs to hang out with Lou Reed and Marianne Faithfull in New York City’s East Village. Instead she’s trapped in East Village,...
19.06.2023 - Roald Dahl Playlist (texts read and music played) 1. R. Dahl: ‘St.Ives’ 2. R. Dahl: ‘Hot and Cold’ 3. R. Dahl: ‘Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf’ 4. R. Dahl: ‘James and the Giant Peach’ 5. ‘Eating the Peach’ (film musical)...
