Reading with Doron Rabinovici: 'The Burden of Memory' (in German language)

As part of the 9th Dialogforum Mauthausen 'Adressing the National Socialist Past in Art', the internationally renowned writer and historian, Doron Rabinovici, read from his novels 'Andernorts' (available in English as 'Elsewhere') and 'Suche nach M' and from previously unpublished short stories.

The event was moderated by Mercedes Echerer.

Programme:

08:00 pm

Reading with Doron Rabinovici

'Andernorts'

Origins, identity, belonging – Doron Rabinovici keeps the relationships in a Jewish family spinning round and round in his novel 'Andernorts', revealing old secrets and observing the creation of new ones. By the end of the gripping tale, all certainties have gone. Only one thing seems sure: home is where you feel at your most foreign.

'Suche nach M'

Combining the criminal and the surreal, the novel tells the fantastical story of Dani Morgenthau and Arieh Scheinowitz, the sons of Jewish Holocaust survivors from Krakow.

Unpublished short stories

09:00 pm

Audience discussion

Doron Rabinovici, a writer and historian, was born in 1961 in Tel Aviv and grew up in Vienna. His oeuvre includes short stories, novels and academic works. In Austria, he has frequently taken a prominent stand against racism and antisemitism. He was recently awarded the Anton Wildgans Prize and the Austrian Book Trade Prize for Tolerance in Thought and Deed for his work.

Organiser:

Mauthausen Memorial, with the generous support of the Volkshochschule Linz

Location:

Wissensturm Linz, Veranstaltungssaal E09, Kärntnerstraße 26, 4020 Linz

Contact:

Mauthausen Memorial
Minoritenplatz 9
1010 Vienna
Tel: +43 1 53126-3708
E-Mail: info@mauthausen-memorial.org