Writer and activist Martin Jankowski will hold a lecture titled: “How to win a Revolution without Bloodshed. East Germany, 1989 and the consequences”.
Martin Jankowsk is a Berlin based writer and poet who started in the 80ies as a singer-songwriter in the oppositional underground of Leipzig. His texts were banned by the STASI but nevertheless his songs and poems became popular during the “monday demonstrations” that led to the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of the GDR. After 1989 he published songs, four poetry books, tales and short stories, essaybooks, literary criticism, nonfiction on history and culture and a novel about 1989 (“Rabet” 1999).
His works were translated into 17 languages and got awards like the annual German Literary Science and Philosophy Prize (1998) or the Alfred Doeblin Scholarship of the German Academy of Arts (2006). He is a regular guest at international festivals and universities; as a cultural activist he curates international projects and festivals, chairs the internationally active Berliner Literarische Aktion e.V. and hosts several regular literary salons.
This event is co-organized with Portland State University’s Department of World Languages and Literatures and is part of “Wunderbar Together”.
7pm, Fariborz Maseeh Hall, Room 334, reception to follow
