‘Geschwindigkeit der Literatur’

Public Lecture by Writer Ilma Rakusa, Winner of the 2017 Berlin Literature Prize of the Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung and Visiting Professor of German Literature: May 18. ' 122/2017 from May 16, 2017 The writer Ilma Rakusa, Visiting Professor of German Literature sponsored by the Preußische Seehandlung Foundation, will give her inaugural lecture at Freie Universität Berlin on Thursday, May 18, at 6:15 p.m. The lecture will be in German. It is entitled "Die Geschwindigkeiten der Literatur - Sondierungen auf dem Gebiet der Poetik und Prognostik." It is public, and admission is free. An introduction to the lecture will be given by Michael Gamper from the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin. Ilma Rakusa was born in Slovakia in 1946 as the daughter of a Slovenian man and a Hungarian woman. She spent her early childhood in Budapest, Ljubljana, and Trieste. She then moved with her family to Zurich, where she spent her school years and began studying Slavic and Romance languages at the university.