„Schreib den wahrsten Satz, den du kennst.“ Ein Abend über Ernest Hemingway – mit Devid Striesow und Paul Ingendaay

In the organizer's words:

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) influenced post-war literature like no other and brought laconic clarity to the waft of general prose solemnity. No one shaped 20th century English like him, no one was so many things at once: grandiose stylist, bestselling author, reporter in three wars. He was the embodiment of classic masculinity before 1968 came along and a cool new kind of writing seemed to supplant him. But Hemingway was never completely gone. Today, the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is being rediscovered: five of his most famous books are available in new German translations, and no fewer than 17 volumes of his complete letters are being published in the USA. One hundred years after the first publication of "In Our Time" (1925), we are celebrating the cultural icon Ernest Hemingway, the only author in his country who can hold his own alongside Mark Twain.
German text: Devid Striesow, concept and narration: Paul Ingendaay

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