15.12.2022 - Elif Shafak’s ‘The Island of Missing Trees’ (2021) Blurb on back cover: “In 1974 , two teenagers, from opposite sides of a divided Cyprus, meet at a tavern in the city they both call home, Nicosia. The tavern is the only place that Kostas,...
13.12.2022 - Am 03. November 2022 feierte der Haymon Verlag sein 40 Jahre Jubiläum und ließ die Literatur hochleben. Im Treibhaus Innsbruck wurde zu diesem Anlass gemeinsam lyrischen Stimmen gelauscht.
27.11.2022 - Das fröhliche Wohnzimmer und PS/ Politisch Schreiben präsentieren literarische O-Töne – dieses Mal von: # Sarita Jenamani: „Ein offenes Fenster“ (Oriya/ Englisch/ Deutsch) aus: Splitter des Himmels, deutsche Übersetzung Uta...
22.11.2022 - St Andrews (1): History, Ghosts and Witches Playlist: texts read & music played 1. Andrew Lang: St Andrews by the Northern Sea 2. Robert Crawford: I love how…. 3. John Johnstoun: from ‚Poemata‘ 4. Tacitus, from...
18.11.2022 - welcome zur 51.sendung von trains&bells. wieder ein automatisches fließen von sinneseindrücken, die frei in worte umgewandelt werden. verwobene texte. music from dylan and anderen. treten sie ein in den imaginären raum. hören sie…
07.11.2022 - ‚Solar Storms‘ (1995), by Linda Hogan „In a novel with the feel of a richly woven pattern, Linda Hogan tells the story of five generations of Native American women in the harsh landscape of the Boundary Waters between Canada and...
31.10.2022 - Eva’s French PoemsTexts read & music played, celebrating Dr Eva Lavric’s retirement as Professor from the Institute for Romance Languages at the University of Innsbruck. At her retirement celebration in the Claudiana of the University of...
31.10.2022 - Hungarian Special Jozef Attila: By the Danube, O Europe, Mother/ Ady Endre: Leaving the Village/ András Imreh: The Bright Boys/ Monika Mesterházi: Wind Bela Bartok: Dance Suite / Zoltan Kodály: ‘Háry János’ Suite/ Zoltán Kodály:...
31.10.2022 - Ukraine (4): War vs. Peace 1. Carl Nielsen, in a letter to his wife (1914) 2. Carl Nielsen, writing to his friend Julius Röntgen (1920) 3. Carl Nielsen: Symphony no. 4 (‘The Inextinguishable’) – Allegro (finale) 4. ‘That which does not...
31.10.2022 - Our Reading Circle has been running now for 10 years. We have also offered Freirad one-hour Reading Circle programmes for these last five years. We now have a new schedule for the Reading Circle programme. The discussion of the monthly book still...
31.10.2022 - Castaway (1983), Lucy Irvine In 1981 Lucy Irvine answered an advertisement from a man seeking a wife: he wanted a companion to spend a year with him on a desert island. ‘G’ (Gerald Kingsland) intended to write a book about the experience. Lucy...
31.10.2022 - Violeta (2022), Isabel Allende ‘One extraordinary woman, 100 years of history, one unforgettable story’ Violeta Del Valle comes into the world on a stormy day in 1920, the first girl in a family of 5 boisterous sons. From the start, her life...
31.10.2022 - Julia Boyd (& Angelika Patel): A Village in the Third Reich (Elliott & Thomson, 2022) Welcome to the Reading Circle, with Sandra and Andrew Milne-Skinner. Over the last few months we have, as a group, read and discussed two books that have...
26.10.2022 - Lyrische Texte von Autor_innen mit Wurzeln in Kärnten und unserem slowenischen Nachbarland. Sieben Minuten zum Lauschen, Nachdenken, Spüren, Freuen. Vsak teden lahko prisluhnete liričnim besedilom avtoric in avtorjev s koreninami na Koroškem...