Martin Dean to visit Delhi and Pune

Martin Dean, writer of Meine Väter (My Father) will read excerpts from his book and talk about his work to students in Delhi and Pune.

Martin Dean, writer of Meine Väter (My Father) will read excerpts from his book and talk about his work to students in Delhi and Pune. The work and the novel of Martin Dean will be introduced by Prof. Alexander Honold, well-known expert in German literature.  

Programme:

Monday, 2 March 2009   Department of Germanic and Romance Studies Arts Faculty, Delhi University

Martin Dean reading in German from his novel Meine Väter.

Introduction and moderation by Prof. Honold.

Time: 1430 - 1600 hrs

Tuesday, 3 March 2009  

Centre of German Studies, School of Lanugages, Literature and Culture Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Martin Dean reading in German from his novel Meine Väter.

Introduction and moderation by Prof. Honold.

Time: 1400 - 1600 hrs

Wednesday, 4 March 2009   Committee Room, School of Lanugages, Literature and Culture Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi   Lecture by Prof. Honold in Englsh: Music as Site and Tool in Edward Said's Postcolonial Critique" Time: 1100 - 1300 hrs 

Thursday, 5 March 2009 Department of Germanic and Romance Studies Arts Faculty, Delhi University  International Conference on “Imagined Horizons” – moderation by Prof. HonoldTime: 1415 hrs 
Friday, 6 March 2009   Goethe Institute Max Mueller Bhavan Goethe Insitute, Boat Club Road, Pune Martin Dean Reading in German from his novel Meine VäterIntroduction and moderation by Prof. Honold. Time: 1130 - 1300 hrs Teachers training workshop by Martin Dean and Prof Honold Time: 1830 - 1930 hrs 
Saturday, 7 March 2009 Ranade Institute, University of Pune Fergusson Road, Near Deccan Gymkhana, Pune Teachers training workshop for teachers of German as a Foreign Language Time: 1000 - 1300 hrs
Dean lives and works as a free writer and publicist in Basel. In 1976, he obtained his university entrance diploma at grammar school in Aarau. In 1977, he began studying German, philosophy, and ethnology at Universität Basel. In 1986, he finished his studies with a licentiate work about Hans Henny Jahnn’s novel "Perrudja", and graduated summa cum laude.  

He travelled extensively and lived abroad for many years, in places such as South America, Portugal, France, Greece and Italy. From 1990 to 1998, he taught at the Schule für Gestaltung (School for Design) in Basel. In 1999, he started teaching German and philosophy at the grammar school in Muttenz.    

Awards 1983 "Rauriser Literaturpreis" for Die verborgenen Gärten 1988/89 Stipend at "Istituto Svizzero" in Rome 1994 Complete work price of the Swiss Schiller Foundation 1997 Guest lecturer as "Poet in residence" at the “Gesamthochschule Essen”2003 Single work price of the Swiss Schiller Foundation  

Works Die verborgenen Gärten, novel, 1982 Die gefiederte Frau. Fünf Variationen über die Liebe, 1984 Der Mann ohne Licht, novel, 1988 Außer mir. Ein Journal, 1990 Der Guayanaknoten, novel, 1994 Die Ballade von Billie und Joe, novel, 1997 Monsieur Fume oder Das Glück der Vergeßlichkeit, 1998 Meine Väter, novel, 2003

Zwischen Fichtenbaum und Palme. Kommentierte Textsammlung für den interkulturellen Deutschunterricht an Mittelschulen, 2005  

For more information on Martin Dean visit: www.mrdean.ch  

when kulbhushan met stockli

"when kulbhushan met stockli" is an experiment in telling short graphic tales, which, individually and together, create a local universe. [ dated March 2009]

Fumetto International Comix-Festival Lucerne An exhibition around the theme of the project will be held with hand drawn images from the experiences of the 19 artists, involved in the project. Glimpses of some pages from the book will also be on display.

Exhibition venue: Sic! Raum für Kunst , Baselstrasse 72, 6003 Lucerne. Opening / book launch - Saturday 28 March from 2 - 5 pm. Exhibition dates: March 29th - April 5th 2009 ( open daily from 12 - 8 pm )

Panel discussion Venue: Aula der Hochschule Luzern, Design & Kunst, Sentimatt1/Dammstrasse, 6003 Lucerne (Illustration School of Lucerne) Date: 31 March 2009 Time: 5 - 6 pm

Participants: Sekhar Mukherjee( NID Ahmedabad) Anindya Roy( Editor of the book) Kati Rickenbach (artist)

Contributors: Andrea Caprez, Andreas Gefe, Ashish Padlekar, Christophe Badoux, Christoph Schuler, Kati Rickenbach, Orijit Sen, Samit Basu, Sekhar Mukherjee, Vishwajyoti Ghosh, Anindya Roy, Rajiv Eipe, Sunaina Coelho, Michael Husmann Tschäni, Pascale Mira Tschäni, Fahad Faizal, Samrat Choudhury, Esther Banz and Harsho Mohan Chattoraj

The project 
Thematically, the project explores hidden urban themes, opens the psychic core of cities in Switzerland and India and constructs a conversation channel between the two. Artefacts of the cities themselves give rise to the stories. The structure follows connections that are obvious, connections that are ephemeral and connections that don't exist.

The participants from both cities create stories and within stories, which either bear a relationship with the other or are set independent of each other, yet belong to a single meta-narrative. This way we explore the natural possibilities of the hypertext in comics, and fully use the non-linearity of the form.

Through the graphic lexis we simulate a natural conversation that could exist between urban centres, in India and Switzerland. We explore the idea that a city is essentially a jumble of associations. It is a spectacle of imaginary spaces and people, enmeshed with the real, expressed by text and image.

This project will generate interest in the graphic novel form in artists and readers in both countries, who in the future could use this project as an example to create further collaborations using the form.

It will create strong professional networks across two cultures, furthering creative practice on both sides. In India this is an emerging art form and the Swiss collaboration will be both enriching and enabling.