Selected Events 2009

Meet the Author George Ellenbogen

George Ellenbogen (left) and Dresden’s American Literature professor  Hans- Ulrich Mohr inspired by one of the poets motifs – travel – in front of Michael FischerArt’s mural painting “Transport”

May 6-May 7, 2009. Consulate General Leipzig took advantage of poet George Ellenbogen's two weeks of readings in Germany and France. The award-winning poet and former Creative Writing professor at Bentley College (until retirement in 2004) gave a lecture and reading for about 45 American Literature students of Dresden University (May 6) and delivered a public reading for a small group of about 25 poetry fans in Leipzig (May 7). Consulate Leipzig furthermore invited Ellenbogen's translator Hans Christian Oeser, one of Germany's best known award-winning literary translators, who in Leipzig became Ellenbogen's German voice and in addition conducted a seminar for 18 students at Germany's only creative writing center Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig (DLL).