Uwe Timm - Benefizlesung Kolibri Stiftung

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Uwe Timm

Benefit reading Kolibri Foundation

Uwe Timm recounts all his ghosts in his last autobiographical book: his apprenticeship years as a furrier, the creativity and precision of this extinct craft, the everyday mentality of the 1950s, his desire to write, his reading expeditions into new worlds and his political awareness - an "initiation novel of love, reading, working and dreaming".
The exploration of contemporary history, above all that which has been passed over, questions and scrutiny, the diversity of voices and different perspectives have characterized the narrative of many of his texts since his first novel Heißer Sommer (Hot Summer, 1974).
He tells of the student movement of 1968, the atmosphere of revolutionary awakening, the confrontation with the generation of fathers - 50 years later, he also recalls unfulfilled political expectations. Uwe Timm's storytelling always takes us into the depths in a skillfully light manner, opening up spaces of possibility and uncovering what has been kept secret.
In his magnificent second novel Morenga, for example, he addresses connections between colonial and ational-socialist crimes long before the post-colonial attention: in 1978, he was one of the first to write about the genocide of the Hereros and Namas 120 years ago in what is now Namibia - a pioneer in the examination of German colonial history. Uwe Timm shows how one can hold convictions without trusting certainties. The conversation with Uwe Timm will show other paths through the world of his texts.

Uwe Timm, born in 1940, is one of the most important contemporary authors, a member of several academies, has been translated into more than 20 languages and has received numerous awards.

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