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Strong Through Weakness: Ahne Reads, Sings and Drinks

April 3, 2019

The German Department is pleased to host a reading with Ahne, a writer-performer from Berlin, Germany. He's also the Max Kade Writer in Residence for 2019. A reception will follow the reading.

Strong Through Weakness: Ahne Reads, Sings, and Drinks Ahne is a writer-performer from Berlin who co-founded one of the first "Lesebühnen" in the 1990s. A Lesebühne is literally a "reading stage," and many exist today all over Germany. Each of them is comprised of a regular group of authors and sometimes singers who present their own work in weekly events to each other and their audience. The presentation is performative, but in contrast to poetry slams, there is no competition -- rather there is collaboration. Ahne was trained as a printer in East Germany before he became unemployed, a squatter, a politician and ultimately a writer. For those reading German: Ahne is blogging about life and other happenings (also here in Carlisle) at www.ahne-international.de. A reception will follow the reading. This event is sponsored by the Department of German and the Max Kade Foundation.

Further information

  • Location: Tome 115
  • Time: 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Calendar Icon
  • Cost: Free