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13.00 – 15.00 Uhr / Halle 5.0 – E 969Tin Ujević – ein lyrischer Nachruf

Eröffnungsfeier am kroatischen Stand mit einem multime-dialen Programm zur Würdigung des großen kroatischen Lyrikers Tin Ujević zum 55. Todestag und zum bevorstehen-den 120. Geburtsjubiläum. Viktor Žmegač über Tin Ujević. Filmvorführung Tins Rückkehr nach Vrgorac und Rezital.Anschließend Buffet mit kroatischen Spezialitäten.mitveranstalter: Stadt Vrgoracteilnehmer: Goran Matović (Künstler), Alida Bremer (Übersetzerin), Svjetlan Lacko Vidulić (Moderator)

16.15 – 17.15 Uhr / FORUM DIALOG, Halle 6.1 - E 913Literatur und Demokratie

Welche Wirkungsräume hat, welche Wirkungsmöglich-keiten bietet die Literatur Kroatiens im sogenannten post-politischen Zeitalter? Kann sie als kleiner aber feiner Motor neuer Bewusstseinsformen und neuer Formen des poli-tischen Engagements in einer zaghaft sich entwickelnden Demokratie auftreten, wenn die Politiker versagen? Was hat der öffentliche Raum und das Recht auf die Stadt mit der Literatur zu tun? mitveranstalter: S. Fischer Stiftung/Tradukiteilnehmer: Alida Bremer und Svjetlan Lacko Vidulić (Moderatoren), Sanja Lovrenčić, Edo Popović, Clemens Meyer, Eugenia Ehgartner

ab 20.00 Uhr / Jazz Café Bar, Walter-Kolb-Straße 1-7, Frankfurt-SachsenhausenLiteratur und Jazz

Autoren lesen aus ihren Werken in entspannter Atmosphäre im Jazz-Café in Sachsenhausenmitveranstalter: Jazz Café Bar, Stadt Vrgoracteilnehmer: Svjetlan Lacko Vidulić (Moderator), Sanja Lovrenčić, Ivana Šojat-Kuči, Edo Popović, Clemens Meyer, Miro Gavran, Ludwig Bauer und Andere

11.00 – 12.00 Uhr / Halle 5.0 – E 969Kinderliteratur in West- und Südosteuropa

Gemeinsamkeiten – Unterschiede. Tradition - Themen – Tendenzen.mitveranstalter: S. Fischer Stiftung/Tradukiteilnehmer: Hans-Heino Ewers, Aylin Rieger, Sanja Lovrenčić, Janja Vidmar, Irena Miš Svoljšak, Jürgen Ehgartner und Andere

14.00 – 15.00 Uhr / Halle 5.0 – E969Streifzüge durch die aktuelle kroatische Literatur

Svjetlan Lacko Vidulić von der Universität Zagreb im Gespräch mit den kroatischen AutorInnen Sanja Lovrenčić (Zlatna riba i istočni Ariel /Der Goldfisch und der östliche Ariel), Ivana Šojat-Kuči (Unterstadt), Edo Popović (Ponoćni boogie / Mitternachtsboogie )und Ludwig Bauer (Zavičaj zaborav /Heimat Vergesslichkeit) teilnehmer: Svjetlan Lacko Vidulić, Alida Bremer (Moderatoren), Sanja Lovrenčić, Ivana Šojat Kuči, Edo Popović und Ludwig Bauer

ab 20.00 Uhr / Kunstverein Frankfurt, Raum B1Buchvorstellung: Edo Popović,“Mitternachtsboogie”

mitveranstalter: Verlag Voland & Quist teilnehmer: Edo Popović, Clemens Meyer, Alida Bremer, Leif Greinusveranstalter: OPEN BOOKS – Veranstaltungen zur Buchmesse im Frankfurter Kunstverein

11.00 – 12.00 Uhr / Halle 5.0 – E9694 Miro Gavran novels in 4 languagesGerman, Chinese, English and Spanish

mitveranstalter: S. Fischer Stiftung/Tradukiteilnehmer: Antje Contius, Maria Seifert, Eugenia Ehgartner, Miro Gavran

11.00 – 12.00 Uhr / Halle 5.0 – E969Buchvorstellung: Josip Vaništa, “Skizzenbuch 1932 – 2010. Iza otvorenih vrata” (Hinter der offenen Tür)

teilnehmer: Wolfgang Eschker, Gojko Borić, Nives Gajdobranski

13.00 – 15.00 Uhr / Halle 5.0 – E969Irena Vrkljan zum 80. Geburtstag

“… aber du fotografierst noch immer das Leben, glaub mir.”Präsentation und Lesung aus Irena Vrkljans Roman Sestra kao iza stakla sowie aus der deutschen Übersetzung Schwester wie hinter Glas. Filmvorführung (Helena Sablić Tomić und Davor Šarić) und Cocktailmitveranstalter: AMAC – Deutschland e.V. / Vereinigung ehemaliger Studenten und Freunde kroatischer Universitätenteilnehmer: Dragica Anderle, Aleksandra Brnetić, Eva-Maria Damasko, Katica Kiš

Croatian Association of Publishers and Booksellers at Croatian Chamber of Economy

Miro Gavran is a contemporary Croa-tian author of short stories, fiction and drama. His works have been translated into 32 languages, and his books have come out in 150 different editions at home and abroad. His dramas and comedies have had more than 200 theatre first nights around the world and have been seen by more than two million theatergoers. He has received some twenty awards in Croatia and abroad including The European circle award and the 1999 Central European time literary award.

Sanja Lovrenčić, (1961), who received her B.A. in the history of art, lives in Zagreb and works as a free-lance writer and translator. She has published several volumes of poetry, short stories, novels and books for children; and has received various literary prizes. Her poetry has been translated into Polish, Russian, German, English, Slo-venian and Hungarian. The German translation of her novel Martinove strune (Martin’s Strings) appeared in 2008.

Edo Popović was born in Livno, Bos-nia and Herzegovina, in 1957. He has lived in Zagreb since 1968. His previous books include San žutih zmija (Dream of Yellow Snakes, 2000), which was per-formed by Reeve Secondary Theatre in Calgary (Canada), Koncert za tekilu i apaurin (Concert for Tequila and Valium, 2002) and Plesačica iz Blue Bara (The Dancer from the Blue Bar, 2004). His fiction has been translated into German and Slovenian.

Ivana Šojat Kuči was born in Osijek in 1971. In 2000 she published Hiperbole (Hyperboles), her first book of poetry. She has also published novels (Unterstadt/Lower Town, 2009) and collections of poetry, short stories and essays. Her po-etry has been published in the Belgian literary review Le Fram and the British poetry magazine The Ugly Tree. She works as a literary translator, having translated over 30 books from English and French into Croatian.

Read Central 11.15 – 12.15 Uhr / FORUM DIALOG, Hall 6.1 - E913World Literature from Central Europe

participants: Maike Albath (moderator), Aleš Šleger, Seid Serdarević, Bence Sarkózy, Mátyás Dunajcsik, Ivana Šojat-Kuči, Mojca Kumerdej.supported by: Crotian Association of Publishers and Booksellers at CCE and others

Frankfurt Book Fair / Traduki16.30 – 17.30 Uhr / WELTFORUM, Hall 5.0 – D941Wie kommt der BETON in die Köpfe?

participants: Zvonko Maković, Alida Bremer, Ben Blushi, György Dalos, Saša Ilić

Frankfurt Book Fair, Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award office 16.00 – 18.00 Uhr / Hall 3.0 – K 389Presentation of the 2011 Nominees

participants: Miro Gavran (nominated candidate from Croatia Section of IBBY) & others

frankfurt book fair

HotSpots Education stage in hall 4.2Wed., 6 Oct. at 13.15 and Thur., 7 Oct. at 17.45Presentation of Geanium interactive chronological visualization (ICV) technology. Veljko Kukulj, creator of Geanium

1:00 – 3:00 pm / Hall 5.0 – E 969A Lyrical Homage speaks about Tin

Official opening of the Croatian booth with multimedia program dedicated to Croatia’s greatest poet, Tin Ujević, in commemoration of the 55th anniversary of his death and in anticipation of the 120th anniversary of Tin’s birth. Viktor Žmegač on Tin Ujević. Movie screening of Tin’s return to Vrgorac and poetry recital. The program will be followed by a reception featuring Croatian culinary specialties.co-organizer: The Town of Vrgoracparticipants: Goran Matović (dramatic artist), Alida Bremer (translator), Svjetlan Lacko Vidulić (moderator)

4:15 – 5:15 pm / FORUM DIALOG, Hall 6.1 - E 913Literature and Democracy

What are the spaces of Croatian literature and how can it function in the post-political era? Is it such that it can per-form in the role of a small but subtle initiator of new forms of consciousness and of new forms of political activity in a democracy that is still developing – even when politics fails? What is the connection between public space, the right to one’s city, and literature? co-organizer: S. Fischer Stiftung/Tradukiparticipants: Alida Bremer and Svjetlan Lacko Vidulić (moderators), Sanja Lovrenčić, Edo Popović, Clemens Meyer, Eugenia Ehgartner

8:00 pm / Jazz Café Bar, Walter-Kolb-Straße 1-7, Frankfurt-SachsenhausenLiterature in Jazz Café

Authors read excerpts from their work and have a discussion in the relaxed atmosphere of a jazz café.co-organizer: Jazz Café Bar, Town of Vrgoracparticipants: Svjetlan Lacko Vidulić (moderator), Sanja Lovrenčić, Ivana Šojat-Kuči, Edo Popović, Clemens Meyer, Miro Gavran, Ludwig Bauer and others

11:00 am – 12:00 noon / Hall 5.0 – E969Children’s Literature: Croatia, Slovenia, Germany.

Links – differences; traditions – themes – directions.co-organizer: S. Fischer Stiftung/Tradukiparticipants: Hans-Heino Ewers, Aylin Rieger, Sanja Lovrenčić, Janja Vidmar, Irena Miš Svoljšak, Jürgen Ehgartner and others

2:00 – 3:00 pm / Hall 5.0 – E 969A Conversation with the Authors: Introducing New Croatian Titles

Svjetlan Lacko Vidulić of the University of Zagreb talks with the Croatian authors Sanja Lovrenčić (Zlatna riba i istočni Ariel/Goldfish and the Eastern Ariel), Ivana Šojat-Kuči (Unterstadt /Lower Town), Edo Popović (Ponoćni boogie/Midnight Boogie) and Ludwig Bauer (Zavičaj zaborav/Homeland Forgetfulness)participants: Svjetlan Lacko Vidulić, Alida Bremer (moderators), Ivana Šojat-Kuči, Sanja Lovrenčić, Ludwig Bauer, Edo Popović

8:00 pm / Kunstverein Frankfurt, room B1Book Launch of the German translation of Edo Popović’s novel Ponoćni boogie (Midnight Boogie). co-organizer: Voland & Quist, Publishing house participants: Edo Popović, Clemens Meyer, Alida Bremer, Leif Greinus

11:00 am – 12:00 noon / Hall 5.0 – E 969Four Miro Gavran Novels in Four Languages:German, Chinese, English and Spanish.

co-organizer: S. Fischer Stiftung/Tradukiparticipants: Antje Contius, Maria Seifert, Eugenia Ehgartner, Miro Gavran

11:00 am – 12:00 noon / Hall 5.0 – E 969Book Launch: Josip Vaništa, Skizzenbuch 1932 – 2010. Iza otvorenih vrata (Sketchbook 1932 – 2010: Behind Open Doors)

participants: Wolfgang Eschker, Gojko Borić, Nives Gajdobranski

1:00 – 3:00 pm / Hall 5.0 – E 969Commemorating 80 years since the birth of Irena Vrkljan“. . . but you are still photographing life, believe me.”

Presentation and excerpts from Irena Vrkljan’s novel Sestra kao iza stakla (Sister, as if Behind Glass) and from the German translation Schwester, wie hinter Glas; Screening of movie by Helena Sablić Tomić and Davor Šarić. Cocktails.co-organizer: AMAC – Association of Former Students and Friends of the Croatian University.participants: Dragica Anderle, Aleksandra Brnetić, Eva-Maria Damasko, Katica Kiš

Josip Vaništa was born in 1924 in Karlovac. He graduated from the Aca-demy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in 1950 and is the founder of the Gorgona group. From 1951 to 1994 he taught at the Architecture Faculty, Univer-sity of Zagreb. He lives and works in Zagreb. His most recent work is Skizzenbuch 1932-2010. Iza otvorenih vrata (Sketchbook 1932-2010. Behind Open Doors, Zagreb 2010). Awards: J.G.Kovačić (2002), Vladi-mir Nazor (1974) and others.

Ludwig Bauer was born in 1941 in Sisak, Croatia. He received his B.A. in Slavic Studies from the University of Zagreb and attended post-graduate studies in Prague. His work includes over 30 fiction titles. His protago-nists are individuals who fall victim to history, frequently ethnic Germans/Austrians living in Croatia. Bauer’s novels are extremely critical of all non-democratic regimes, and they attack fanaticism and nation-alism. His most recent novel is Zavičaj zaborav - Heimat Vergesslichkeit (Homeland Forgetfulness; Zagreb, 2010).

Irena Vrkljan was born in 1930 in Belgrade. She studied archaeology and German in Zagreb. She has written several radio and television plays, but the focus of her work throughout her life has been lyric poetry. She lives in Berlin. Her most famous novel Svila, škare (Silk, Scissors, 1984 ) has been translated into Ger-man, English, Italian and Hungarian. The most recent novel Žene i ovaj suludi svijet (Women and this crazy world, 2010) appeared in 2010. Awards: Tin Ujević (1983),Vladi-mir Nazor (2009) and others.