LESUNG & DINNER mit Autor Elyseo da Silva

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Born in Nuremberg, Elyseo da Silva has lived in Lisbon, Portugal, since 2016. In the year he left Germany, he published his debut novel "Mosaic of Lost Time", followed by the essay collection "Paincakes and Other Curiosities" in 2020. Between 1998 and 2000 and between 2011 and 2016, da Silva lived in Cologne and began his research for the Luk-und-Galiano project. His search for clues led him back to the time of the student movement, a time characterized by a spirit of optimism and belief in a better future, but also the time of a strictly patriarchal Federal Republic of Germany, in which homosexuals had to reckon with prosecution for their sexual orientation under Paragraph 175, which had been tightened by the Nazis. 

On November 28, Elyseo da Silva will read from his two Luk-und-Galiano novels "Ein Regenbogen für den Schah" (August 2024) and "Phoenixwalzer" (November 2024) at the Literaturcafé Goldmund.

From the blurb for "A Rainbow for the Shah": Shortly before the Shah's visit and the rise of the 1968 movement, the two loners Lukas von Freystein and Maximilian Galiano meet. A tender friendship develops between the young men over a period of months. For Lukas, this also offers a way to gradually escape his father's strict regiment. He would much rather sit under the roof with Max and listen to the latest records by Frank Zappa or The Doors. When Roswitha Janisch, a new classmate, joins Luk's class and introduces him to the circles of the Socialist Student Union, this not only changes Luk's life, but also the relationship between him and Max. The latter has to reluctantly admit to himself that the feelings he has for his best friend may go beyond friendship. But what does this mean in a time when the Nazi laws against same-sex love were still in force and gays not only faced social ostracism for their inclination, but even prison? Let us take you on a journey back in time to the 60s and 70s - when Cologne was not yet the center of the German LGBTQ movement - and listen to the adventures of Luk and Galiano as they try to emancipate themselves despite all the adversities in society at the time. Beforehand, you can indulge in the excellent Goldmund cuisine.