22 January 2024

Corinna Harfouch and Ingo Schulze read from Imre Kertész’s Kaddish for an Unborn Child

Reading to mark the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism
Saturday, 27 January 2024, 4 pm
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin

Imre Kertész’s Kaddish – the Jewish mourner’s prayer – is dedicated to a child who will never come into being. In a long monologue, the narrator explains why, after Auschwitz, he is unwilling to bring a child into the world. To mark the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism, Akademie members Corinna Harfouch and Ingo Schulze will read from Imre Kertész’s 1990 novel about the difficulties of surviving survival. Akademie President Jeanine Meerapfel will give a welcome address and introduce the event.

Imre Kertész (1929–2016) was deported in 1944 to Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps and liberated in 1945. In 2002 he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. He had been a member of the Akademie der Künste since 2003, and bequeathed his archive to the Akademie in 2002.

Event information
Corinna Harfouch and Ingo Schulze read from Imre Kertész’ Kaddish for an Unborn Child
Reading to mark the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism
Welcome and introduction: Jeanine Meerapfel
in German
Saturday, 27 January 2024, 4 pm
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
Admission €6/4
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