Waterloo Centre for German Studies
Modern Languages building, Room 104
519-888-4567 ext. 39267
wcgs@uwaterloo.ca
German author and entrepreneur Marc Degens will be reading from his work in both German and English:
- God’s Busted Knee (Novel, Excerpt, Original: Das kaputte Knie Gottes)
- The SuKuLTuR Years (Short Story, Original: Die SuKuLTuR Jahre)
- Dorsten (Short Story)
Marc Degens, born in 1971 in Essen, Germany, has been living in Toronto since 2014. He’s a writer, publisher, program director of the publishing house “SuKuLTuR”, and e-book dealer (minimore.de). He studied German Literature and Sociology in Bochum, Germany. “Unsere Popmoderne,” his column about fictitious novels, ran from 2001 to 2012 in the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” and “Volltext.” In 2009, SuKuLTuR Verlag published the novel “Strobo,” which was the epicentre of a copyright infringement case about Helene Hegemann’s debut novel, “Axolotl Roadkill.” Marc Degens has published numerous books, including four novels. www.marcdegens.tumblr.com
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