{"id":29393,"date":"2025-11-26T20:21:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globale-literaturfestival.de\/05-12-grass-grenzenlos-the-second-giving-doubt-7-00-pm\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:54:55","slug":"05-12-grass-grenzenlos-the-second-giving-doubt-7-00-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globale-literaturfestival.de\/en\/05-12-grass-grenzenlos-the-second-giving-doubt-7-00-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"05.12. Grass Grenzenlos – The Second: “Giving Doubt”, 7.00 pm"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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05.12. | Grass Grenzenlos - The Second: \"Giving Doubt\" | 7.00 pm<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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German Nobel Prize winner G\u00fcnter Grass broke boundaries with his work and influence. His eye, always directed towards the most precise description of the state of affairs, transcends artistic, political and geographical boundaries of thought and action and his efforts to promote artists of foreign literatures inspire a new series of events under the motto “Grass Grenzenlos” (Grass Without Borders). Renowned artists from different countries and generations will be brought together to talk about their work. <\/p>

The second event in the new series will take place on December 5, 2025 under the title “Giving Doubt” and will feature the Czech poet and diplomat Tomas Kafka and the Ukrainian writer Tanja Maljartschuk, who has won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, among others. The title was based on a self-positioning by G\u00fcnter Grass: “I have no lesson. I don’t know the solution. I give you doubt… so to be nervous, to be disturbed, to be among the losers, to know what you have lost… Usually the horizons of the homeless and uprooted are wider than those of the inhabitants of small and large inherited properties…”<\/em> Tomas Kafka experienced first-hand the exodus of dissidents, the suppression of literature and its underground existence in the former Czechoslovakia, as well as how cultures intertwined. Tanya Malyarchuk experiences the physical and intellectual threat posed by the Russian invaders on a daily basis. Is there still hope? Common European paths? <\/p>

The event series is a cooperation between the G\u00fcnter Grass Foundation Bremen, the Bremen Shakespeare Company, the Festival Globale and the City of Literature. The venue is the Silo-Hotel John & Will on the \u00dcberseeinsel. The talks will take place in a lounge atmosphere with a view over the Weser. The bar will remain open during the event. <\/p>

December 5: “Giving Doubt”: Czech poet and diplomat Tomas Kafka and Ukrainian Bachmann Prize winner Tanya Malyarchuk in conversation<\/p>

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Our guests on December 05, 2025:<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Tanya Malyarchuk<\/strong> is a Ukrainian writer and essayist. Her most recent German publications are the novel “Blauwal der Erinnerung” (2019) and the essay collection “Gleich geht die Geschichte weiter, wir atmen nur aus” (2022), both published by Kiepenheuer & Witsch. She has been awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize (2018) and the Jeanette Shocken Prize (2024), among others. In 2022, she curated the Munich Literature Festival with a focus on Ukraine. <\/p><\/div><\/div>

Co-editor of the eight-volume “Ukrainian Library” at Wallstein Verlag since 2025. She lives in Vienna and writes regularly for German-language media. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Tom\u00e1\u0161 Kafka<\/strong> was born in Prague, the son of the Germanist and translator (including “The Tin Drum” by G\u00fcnter Grass) Vladim\u00edr Kafka. He studied Russian and history at the Faculty of Philosophy at Charles University in Prague. Since 1990, he has worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, eight years of which he was “on loan” to the Czech-German Future Fund, where he worked as Czech co-managing director and was involved in the compensation of Czech Holocaust victims, among other things.<\/p><\/div><\/div>

After returning to the Foreign Ministry, he was repeatedly appointed director of the relevant territorial department and devoted himself to the situation in Central Europe. For a time, he was also national coordinator of the Visegr\u00e1d Group, which includes the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Slovakia. Together with Bernhard Schlink, he later processed his experiences in the joint play “Central Europe: History of a Monument”. During his diplomatic career, he also served as ambassador to Ireland (2008-2013) and Germany (2020-2024). For his work, he was awarded the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Bene Merito Medal of Merit of the Polish Foreign Minister, among others. He is the author of several volumes of poetry, one-act plays and, in particular, translations from German (e.g. Bernhard Schlink, Heinrich Hoffmann, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Wilhelm Busch, Thomas Brussig, Werner Schwab). Kafka lives with his family in Prague and is once again working as Director of the Central European Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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John & Will Silohotel by Guldsmeden
Room Boven 7
Auf der Muggenburg 50
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Please register at desk@grass-medienarchiv.de<\/a> or phone: 0176 53778500.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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