Brockley Gazette - West End Final
Top German Writer Secured by London Universityby the editor
One of Britains top universities in the centre of London has been able to secure a reading slot for the sell-out autumn tour of a major German author, the Brockley Gazette has learned.
Writer Dietrich zur Nedden will read from his highly original novelle "Strafplanet Erde" (losely translated as 'penal colony earth') (Wehrhahn Verlag) hopefully to packed audiences.
This is not the first time zur Nedden, who also writes regularly for a newspaper, hits the UK with his poetry. "It's probably 10 years by now" zur Nedden recalls, "I landed in a lovely little art college in south east London, Goldsmiths, with a small but captive audience. You know, to paraphrase a great German artist, 'I like London and London likes me".
Well, this time might be more of a challenge with the reputation of German literature being shattered once more by the country's current eclectic taste for sub-erotic writing like the bestseller 'feuchtgebiete' ('Wetlands', published in the UK by Fourth Estate Ltd) zur Nedden will have to assure the UK that not all German writers are smelly. "I'll do my best so that everything's coming up roses " he promises. The audience at King's College will be the judge...
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