Writers of Europe Season 1
In eleven episodes we get to know eleven countries through one or more literary greats and the works they created. Diverse archives as well as reports by writers filmed in emblematic places form these kaleidoscope portraits of Europe and national belonging. Four authors with converging perspectives on a Germany that is at the center of all questions of identity: Christoph Hein, Wladimir Kaminer, Bernhard Schlink and Emine Sevgi Özdamar. In Iceland we meet Arni Thorarinsson, one of the masters of the crime novel, Jon Kalman Stefánsson, more in the romantic tradition, and Audur Ava Olafsdottir with offbeat humor and modernity. Through the strength of their literary identity, we understa
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Writers of Europe
2013In eleven episodes we get to know eleven countries through one or more literary greats and the works they created. Diverse archives as well as reports by writers filmed in emblematic places form these kaleidoscope portraits of Europe and national belonging. Four authors with converging perspectives on a Germany that is at the center of all questions of identity: Christoph Hein, Wladimir Kaminer, Bernhard Schlink and Emine Sevgi Özdamar. In Iceland we meet Arni Thorarinsson, one of the masters of the crime novel, Jon Kalman Stefánsson, more in the romantic tradition, and Audur Ava Olafsdottir with offbeat humor and modernity. Through the strength of their literary identity, we understa
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The works of leading writers Péter Nádas and Péter Esterházy share the theme of the central place history plays. "Great history and personal history cannot exist without each other” considers Péter Nádas (A Book of Memories, Parallel Stories). Péter Esterházy is a former footballer descended from a well established Magyar family, whose fantastical and overwhelming past he revisited in Harmonia cælestis. At the end of the 1970s, he embodied the new Hungarian literature. His sharp eye scans a wide range, from seriousness to mischief. Péter Nádas displays intense sensitivity, which translates into his books as unruly narration, haunted by the idea of chaos.
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