Fotomuseum Winterthur | Guided Tours, Events | Sunday, 27.03.2022, 15:00–16:00
Tour and Talk: Literature, Transformation and the Power of Translation
Zackary Drucker, Rosalyne, 2019 © Zackary Drucker and Luis De Jesus, Los Angeles
During an exhibition tour and talk, Antje Rávik Strubel, writer and translator, and Gesa Schneider, director of Literaturhaus Zürich, discuss the history of Orlando, queerness, transformation and the power of translation.
Antje Rávik Strubel lives and works as a writer in Potsdam. She received the German Book Prize 2021 for her novel Blaue Frau. She is an expert on Virginia Woolf's work and has translated numerous of her texts into German.
Gesa Schneider has been the director of Literaturhaus Zürich since 2013. From 2015 to 2018, she was co-director of Museum Strauhof.
The event takes place in German.
Admission: CHF 15.– (for members and reduced CHF 12.–)
Subject to change.
This event takes place in the framework of the exhibition Orlando – Based on a Novel by Virginia Woolf. The 1928 novel Orlando tells the story of a young noble person in the age of Queen Elizabeth I who lives for centuries without ageing and has the mysterious ability to switch gender. In 1992, film-maker Sally Potter devised what has become a classic adaptation of the book with actress Tilda Swinton in the title role. The exhibition of the same name, developed by Swinton, shows the work of contemporary artists and photographers who explore the main themes dealt with in Orlando’s story: gender fluidity, the idea of boundless consciousness and the prospect of living forever.
Antje Rávik Strubel lives and works as a writer in Potsdam. She received the German Book Prize 2021 for her novel Blaue Frau. She is an expert on Virginia Woolf's work and has translated numerous of her texts into German.
Gesa Schneider has been the director of Literaturhaus Zürich since 2013. From 2015 to 2018, she was co-director of Museum Strauhof.
The event takes place in German.
Admission: CHF 15.– (for members and reduced CHF 12.–)
Subject to change.
This event takes place in the framework of the exhibition Orlando – Based on a Novel by Virginia Woolf. The 1928 novel Orlando tells the story of a young noble person in the age of Queen Elizabeth I who lives for centuries without ageing and has the mysterious ability to switch gender. In 1992, film-maker Sally Potter devised what has become a classic adaptation of the book with actress Tilda Swinton in the title role. The exhibition of the same name, developed by Swinton, shows the work of contemporary artists and photographers who explore the main themes dealt with in Orlando’s story: gender fluidity, the idea of boundless consciousness and the prospect of living forever.
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