Events
22.11.2024, 7:00 PM Edgar Selge: Hast du uns endlich gefunden (‘Have you found us at last’)
Book presentation
Edgar Selge: Hast du uns endlich gefunden (‘Have you found us at last’)
In cooperation with the German Embassy in Rome, the Italian publisher Carbonio, the German publisher Rowohlt Verlag, the Biblioteca Europea and the Goethe-Institut have jointly extended an invitation to the German actor and author Edgar Selge. He will introduce his debut novel Finalmente ci hai trovati (Hast du uns endlich gefunden, ‘Have you found us at last’) to his Roman audience, and discuss the book with presenter Loretta Cavaricci, a journalist at RAI.
Hast du uns endlich gefunden – Edgar Selge’s literary debut
Selge’s childhood was spent around the 1960s in a town that was neither big nor small, and in a middle-class household in which there was a lot of music. His father was a prison governor. It wasn’t all that long since the end of the war, and Selge’s parents tried to make up the deficit of what they called their lost years by devoting themselves to literature and classical music. The boy was aware of multiple fractures in this seemingly orderly world. Though transfixed by the animated political discussions between his older brothers and his parents that he hears at the supper table, he takes no part in them, instead taking refuge more and more in the world of his own imagination.
Hast du uns endlich gefunden (Rowohlt, 2021) has been published in Italy as Finalmente ci hai trovati (Carbonio Editore, 2024) in a translation by Angela Ricci. The translation was funded by the Vera and Volker Doppelfeld Foundation in association with Litrix.de.
Edgar Selge (born 1948) is one of Germany’s leading character actors. He grew up in Herford in Eastern Westphalia as the son of a prison governor. He completed his acting training in Munich in 1975 after studying Philosophy and German Studies as well as classical piano. He has won numerous awards for his work. Edgar Selge shares his life with the actress Franziska Walser; they have two children. Hast du uns endlich gefunden is his literary debut.
Language: German/Italian, with translation
Entry is free of charge
info-roma@goethe.de
Venue:
Auditorium of the Goethe-Institut
Via Savoia, 15
00198 Rome
In cooperation with the German Embassy in Rome, the Italian publisher Carbonio, the German publisher Rowohlt Verlag, the Biblioteca Europea and the Goethe-Institut have jointly extended an invitation to the German actor and author Edgar Selge. He will introduce his debut novel Finalmente ci hai trovati (Hast du uns endlich gefunden, ‘Have you found us at last’) to his Roman audience, and discuss the book with presenter Loretta Cavaricci, a journalist at RAI.
Hast du uns endlich gefunden – Edgar Selge’s literary debut
Selge’s childhood was spent around the 1960s in a town that was neither big nor small, and in a middle-class household in which there was a lot of music. His father was a prison governor. It wasn’t all that long since the end of the war, and Selge’s parents tried to make up the deficit of what they called their lost years by devoting themselves to literature and classical music. The boy was aware of multiple fractures in this seemingly orderly world. Though transfixed by the animated political discussions between his older brothers and his parents that he hears at the supper table, he takes no part in them, instead taking refuge more and more in the world of his own imagination.
Hast du uns endlich gefunden (Rowohlt, 2021) has been published in Italy as Finalmente ci hai trovati (Carbonio Editore, 2024) in a translation by Angela Ricci. The translation was funded by the Vera and Volker Doppelfeld Foundation in association with Litrix.de.
Edgar Selge (born 1948) is one of Germany’s leading character actors. He grew up in Herford in Eastern Westphalia as the son of a prison governor. He completed his acting training in Munich in 1975 after studying Philosophy and German Studies as well as classical piano. He has won numerous awards for his work. Edgar Selge shares his life with the actress Franziska Walser; they have two children. Hast du uns endlich gefunden is his literary debut.
Language: German/Italian, with translation
Entry is free of charge
info-roma@goethe.de
Venue:
Auditorium of the Goethe-Institut
Via Savoia, 15
00198 Rome