Online-Lesung mit Olga Grjasnowa: Macht der Mehrsprachigkeit

In the organizer's words:

Moderated online reading with the well-known author Olga Grjasnowa from her book "The Power of Multilingualism - On Origin and Diversity"

In this event, we want to address one of the central topics of our globalized world: the importance and effects of multilingualism on individuals, societies and educational systems. At a time when migration, globalization and digital networking are bringing together more and more people from different cultures and linguistic backgrounds, the ability to speak and understand several languages is increasingly seen as a valuable resource.
Languages often open up a new world, but multilingualism is often valued differently in different contexts. On this day, we want to focus on the opportunities that multilingualism offers individually and socially, but also on the opportunities that are wasted due to racist attributions and devaluations of some languages and their speakers.
Olga Grjasnowa, born in 1984 in Baku (Azerbaijan), comes from a Russian-Jewish family. Her family moved to Hesse in 1996 as part of the Jewish contingent of refugees. Her debut novel "Der Russe ist einer der Birken liebt" was published in 2012. In her essay "Die Macht der Mehrsprachigkeit - Über Herkunft und Vielfalt" (The Power of Multilingualism - On Origin and Diversity), Olga Grjasnowa impressively addresses what a valuable resource multilingualism is and why this has only been very selectively promoted politically in Germany to date.

The reading is taking place as part of the "International Weeks against Racism" in cooperation with the Central Library of the City of Kiel and the State Commissioner for Refugee, Asylum and Immigration Issues.

Registration at www.foerde-vhs.de or by email to info@foerde-vhs.de