Kai Focke und Meinhard Saremba

In the organizer's words:

Fleeting paradises and paradises of the future

New stories by authors from the regional group of the Association of German Writers

Literature

The idea of a paradise is what connects the latest works by Kai Focke and Meinhard Saremba - be it a fleeting moment in the present, a memory or even a glimpse into a possible future.

Meinhard Saremba's book Flüchtige Paradiese (Fleeting Paradises), published in 2024, shows in eleven stories how passing encounters become formative experiences. The Mannheimer Morgen wrote: "These are multi-layered and exciting stories, spiced here and there with poetic wit. The author succeeds in creating imaginative depictions that become literary gems.

The anthology Campus 2049 , which was published to mark the 50th anniversary of the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW) in Mannheim, looks to the future. Authors from Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland present science fiction stories about universities in the year 2049 and ask themselves, for example: who will be teaching then - a human, an AI? What effect will "Rainbow Flash" have on exams?

The book has been nominated for the Kurd Laßwitz Prize (KLP), the best-known German science fiction prize, in the category "Special Prize for Unique Outstanding Achievement in German-language Science Fiction 2024".

Meinhard Saremba is a writer, musicological publicist and translator; in addition to readings, he also gives lectures and introductions to concert programs and works for radio and television.

Kai Focke, professor at the DHBW Mannheim, is co-editor of the anthology Campus 2049.

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