Tijan Sila: Werkgespräch (Poetikdozentur NEUE DEUTSCHE LITERATUR)

In the organizer's words:

Is there even an "arrival in peace" for people who have experienced war, or is life afterwards inevitably characterized by suffering?

Tijan Sila has been dealing with this question since his debut Tierchen unlimited and also in his text Der Tag, an dem meine Mutter verrückt wurde, for which he received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. In Radio Sarajevo, he uses the example of ten-year-old Tijan and his friends to describe the fragile, war-torn 'forgotten' generation of Bosnian children, to whom he wants to create a literary monument.

In conversation with Laura Beck, the author gives an insight into the origins, language and motivation behind his literary writing.

Tijan Sila was born in Sarajevo in 1981 and came to Germany as a refugee in 1994. He studied German and English language and literature in Heidelberg.

Laura Beck has been a research assistant in the Department of Modern German Literature and Comparative Literature at the University of Hanover since 2023.

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A JOINT PROJECT OF THE LITERATURHAUS HANNOVER AND THE GERMAN SEMINAR OF THE LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY OF HANNOVER.