(April 3, 2017) One of the most popular Italian and European literature names: Claudio Magris is the first protagonist, in Germany, of DediKa, project promoted by the Italian Institute of Culture in Berlin with the aim of offering an annual organic cycle of meetings around an emblematic figure of contemporary Italian culture. From March 20 to 25 meetings, readings, theater performances, film screenings, concerts, exhibitions and moments of study illustrated the different aspects of his work. The show will resume in May with three days dedicated to Magris. On May 11, the Freie Universität Berlin will confer him an honorary doctorate in Philosophy and Humanities and the next day there will be a study day in honor of – and with – Magris titled “Literature and World: the literary dimension of Claudio Magris works”. Speakers Natalie Dupré (Lovanio), Irene Fantappiè (Berlin), Bernhard Huss (Berlin), Renate Lunzer (Vienna), Ludger Scherer (Bonn), Gisela Schlüter (Erlangen, Germany). For Italy will intervene Ernestina Pellegrini, Professor of Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature at the University of Florence and Maria Carolina Foi, a professor of German literature at the University of Trieste. On May 13, finally, the Feuerle Collection will stage the show “You will understand, therefore,” with actress Angela Winkler. (Red)
