A Reading from Stimme und Atem. Out of Breath, Out of Mind
Academy alumnus Peter Wortsman reads from his new book, “Stimme und Atem. Out of Breath, Out of Mind.”
In this collection of stories—some of them quasi-autobiographical and nearly all written originally in German and then translated or adapted by the author into English—Peter Wortsman creates a compelling, if disturbing, portrait of himself and the contemporary age. Throughout, he harbors a hope: “Perhaps we Germans and Jews of the postwar generation, as children of a shattered cultural union, can still achieve something productive together; perhaps we can pick a few rags of reason from the ruins of the past and therewith pitch a tent big enough to hold all our dreams.”
Moderated by Andrew Gross, Professor of American Studies, Universität Göttingen
In cooperation with the U.S. Embassy Berlin, The English Theatre Berlin | International Performing Arts Center, and PalmArtPress
Meet the speaker
Peter Wortsman is a translator and writer living in New York whose English rendering of Posthumous Papers of a Living Author, by Robert Musil, now in its third edition, has been called “a classic in itself.” Wortsman is the author of a book of short fiction, A Modern Way to Die (Fromm International, 1991); two…
