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"It muffles. It shrouds. Like the sheet a magician lays over their assistant before taking out the saw – when it is whisked away, the miracle is not that anything has changes, but rather that everything has stayed the same."

Nancy Campbell - Fifty Words for Snow

The Library of Ice

Nancy Campbell in conversation with Florian Werner

 Due to unforeseen circumstances, the event »The Library of Ice« has been canceled.

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Nancy Campbell, Salvador Plascencia and Svenja Gräfen in conversation 

This event took place on June 8 at Galerie für Zeitgenössiche Kunst in Leipzig.


Samuel Fischer Guest Professor Nancy Campbell met Picador Guest Professor Salvador Plascencia for a conversation about the art of writing and the interplay of design and literature. Svenja Gräfen hosted the conversation that took place on June 8 at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig. More about the event on picadorprof.de.

The event is a collaboration between the Samuel Fischer Guest Professorship and the Picador Guest Professorship and took part for the 25th anniversary celebration of the Samuel Fischer Guest Professorship. Partners of #sfischerprof are: Freie Universität Berlin, DAAD, S. Fischer and Holtzbrinck Berlin - Inspire Together.


"It muffles. It shrouds. Like the sheet a magician lays over their assistant before taking out the saw – when it is whisked away, the miracle is not that anything has changes, but rather that everything has stayed the same."

Nancy Campbell - Fifty Words for Snow


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Literatures of the World

The Samuel Fischer Visiting Professorship for Literature was established on the initiative of Prof. Dr. Gerd Mattenklott at the beginning of the summer term 1998. It is funded by S. Fischer publishers, Freie Universität Berlin, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and Holtzbrinck Berlin - Inspire Together. Each semester an author is invited to teach at the Peter Szondi Institute of Comparative Literature. In addition to a seminar at the Freie Universität Berlin public readings and events with the guest professors are organized in Berlin and other German cities.


    News

    Summer Semester 2023

    Nancy Campbell

    We are delighted to announce that Scottish writer Nancy Campbell will be the Samuel Fischer Guest Professor for the upcoming summer semester. On May 4, she will give her public lecture »Hot Metal Frozen Paper« at the Peter Szondi Institute for General and Comparative Literature at Freie Universität Berlin. More information about the lecture is available here and you can find more information on Nancy Campbell here.

    Winter Semester 2022/23

    Notes On Love

    On November 30, Xiaolu Guo and Divya Ghelani discussed craft, language, humour, and home in Guo's novels and shared personal experiences as writers. The conversation took place at daadgalerie Berlin. 

    SUMMER SEMESTER 2022

    On Becoming A Feminist: Writing Here And Now

    A conversation between Lina Meruane (Chile-USA) and Priya Basil (UK-Germany) about how increasing attention to female characters in their early fiction made them aware of gender troubles and about how, later on, becoming feminists influenced their non-fiction writing. Conversation in English. Click here for the recording on YouTube.

    September 29 to October 10, 2021

    Festival International New Drama 2021

    The 20th FIND took place in Berlin from September 29 to October 10! Part of the festival is the Schaubühne production »Qui a tué mon père« (»Who killed my father«) by our former Samuel Fischer Guest Professor Édouard Louis, which Thomas Ostermeier brought to the stage together with the author. In this production, Éduoard Louis was on stage for the first time as a performer of one of his texts.


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    Nancy Campbell and Salvador Plascencia in conversation with Svenja Gräfen at the Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst

    © Andreas Lamm

    Notes On Love: A Conversation with Xiaolu Guo.

    Xiaolu Guo 郭小櫓 in conversation with Divya Ghelani at Literaturhaus Berlin

    © Phil Dera

    Five Men And A Caravaggio - Screening & Talk

    Xiaolu Guo 郭小櫓 in conversation with Giuliana Kiersz

    © Phil Dera

    On Becoming A Feminist: Writing Here And Now

    Lina Meruane in conversation with Priya Basil at Literaturhaus Berlin

    © Phil Dera

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