Popnami's Salon Series features book readings, music performances, and art talks in the intimate space of our home in Munich's historic Alt Schwabing!
ARNO SCHMIDT Biography
POPNANAMI! IS PLEASED TO PRESENT SVEN HANUSCHEK READING FROM HIS LATEST BOOK ABOUT GERMAN LITERARY LEGEND ARNO SCHMIDT!
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Sven Hanuschek is a professor at the Institute of German Philology at the Ludwig Maximilian-University in Munich. With his latest book, a biography of Arno Schmidt, we get to understand this solitary figure’s life better. From the legal accusations of blasphemy in the 1950's; his marriage with his steadfast partner Alice Schmidt; to the development of his experimental writings, such as “Leviathan”(1949) and “Zettels Traum” (1970), among others.
WHEN: DECEMBER 9, 7PM 2022
WHERE: MÜNCHNER FREIHEIT, SCHWABING
SVEN HANUSCHEK
Hanuschek studied modern German literature, philosophy, psycholinguistics and theater studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich. In 1993 he received his doctorate there.
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In 2003 he also completed his habilitation at the LMU Munich, where he then worked as a private lecturer.
Since 2004, Hanuschek has been the managing director of the Department of German Studies, Comparative Literature, Nordic Studies and German as a Foreign Language at the Faculty of Linguistics and Literature at the LMU Munich.