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"The Little Typewriter" chapbook launch

a reading and conversation with translator Johannes von Moltke
Thursday, May 25, 2017
6:00-7:30 PM
Off Campus Location
Come help us celebrate Harlequin Creature's chapbook!

Thursday, May 25, 2017 @ Ann Arbor Art Center // 6pm

a reading and conversation with translator
Johannes von Moltke

Originally published in 1927 in the Frankfurter Zeitung in German, "The Little Typewriter" appears for the first time in English. Written by Siegfried Kracauer, translated by Johannes von Moltke, and with illustrations by Vlad Beronja, this chapbook is all bound up in a little letterpressed bundle.

Want to know more? Read editor, Meghan Forbes' short article: http://www.michiganquarterlyreview.com/2017/03/object-of-desire/.

(We'll miss you if you can't make it to the launch, but you can purchase your copy online, too! http://harlequincreature.tumblr.com/post/158459866547/babys-first-chapbook-the-little-typewriter)
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Johannes von Moltke is a Professor of German Studies and Screen Arts & Cultures at the University of Michigan. He teaches and researches the history of German cinema, with a particular interest in our shifting understanding of film and more recent media. His latest book, The Curious Humanist, explores the encounter between German and American intellectual traditions through the figure of Siegfried Kracauer, the film theorist and critic who fled the Nazis in 1933 and spent the last quarter century of his life in New York, where he wrote several important books about film. Most recently, Johannes has been thinking about how the media (and media theorists) have changed our notions of what it means to be human.
Building: Off Campus Location
Location: Ann Arbor Art Center
Website:
Event Type: Lecture / Discussion
Tags: Books, German, Interdisciplinary, Language, Media, Translation, Visual Arts, Writing
Source: Happening @ Michigan from Germanic Languages & Literatures, Slavic Languages & Literatures