Corinna Harfouch and Ingo Schulze read Imre Kertész Kaddisch für ein nicht geborenes Kind (Kaddish for an Unborn Child)
On the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism
Imre Kertész’s Kaddish – the Jewish prayer for the dead – is dedicated to a child who will never be born. In a large monologue, the narrator explains his refusal to reproduce life after Auschwitz. To mark the Day of Remembrance for the Victims of National Socialism, Akademie members Corinna Harfouch and Ingo Schulze read from Imre Kertész’s novel about the difficulty of surviving the survival.
Imre Kertész (1929 - 2016) was deported to the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps in 1944 and liberated in 1945. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2002. He had been a member of the Akademie der Künste since 2003, to which he handed over his archive in 2002.
Welcome and introduction
Jeanine Meerapfel, President of the Akademie der Künste
Reading
Corinna Harfouch and Ingo Schulze read from Kaddisch für ein nicht geborenes Kind (Kaddish for an Unborn Child) (1990), translated from Hungarian by György Buda and Kristin Schwamm