Supporting Musical Programme: GOLDBERG-Trio Bonn

Thursday, 12. May 2005, at 7:30 p.m. in the Foyer of the Arithmeum Admission: 7 EURO (reduced: 5 EURO). Advance booking: Bonn-Ticket

The reading by György Konrád is part of the series of readings entitled "Six Decades after the End of the War" and organized by the Centre for Language and Literature. György Konrád was born in 1933 near Debrecen in Eastern Hungary. He studied literature, sociology and psychology in Budapest and is today considered to be one of the foremost writers and essayists of his country. With his first novel entitled "Visitor" he became internationally known overnight. Numerous uncompromisingly socio-critical works followed. Particularly after his arrest in Hungary in 1974, he received study grants and travelled extensively in Western Europe and USA. Konrád was president of the international PEN-Club from 1990 to 1993 and received, among other awards, the German Book Trade Peace Prize. From 1997 to 2003 he was president of the Arts Academy in Berlin. "Solar Eclipse on the Mountain" is a continuation of his autobiographical childhood novel "Happiness". It is the personal report of a politically committed writer spanning the period from 1945 to the end of the millennium, and is written in the laconic and gripping style so characteristic of Konrád .