Erstpräsentation: "Sterben lernen auf Japanisch" von Milena Michiko Flašar

Reading with conversation & music: about beginnings, finiteness and hope. Music: The Third Kijimuna

Why death is constantly accompanied by Milena Michiko Flašar often asked. In approaching her second home Japan, high above the clouds, she catches up with this question. And she does not evade her, but can be guided by her: Why should we quarreling living open to the transience? What is the distinctive core that remains of us when we are no longer? During her foray from ōsaka to Kyoto to Tokyo, in the shining thermal baths that have fallen from the time and in the vertebrae neon lighting party mile, Flašar meets with curiosity, calm and openness to the omnipresent preliminary of our finiteness - and is one of the main life:

Milena Michiko Flašar studied German studies and Romance studies in Vienna and Berlin. She is the daughter of a Japanese mother and an Austrian father. Her novel "I called him tie" was sold over 100,000 times, premiered as a play at the Maxim Gorki Theater. He was on the longlist of the German Book Prize and was translated into numerous languages. Finally, the novel "Above Earth, Below Heaven" and the short story band "The Hase in the Moon" appeared. (Photo: Luiza Puiu)

The duo the third kijimuna (Sigrid Hofmeister-Watanabe and Isabelle Prochska) mixed with traditional music from Okinawa Viennese songs and pop songs. The Sanshin is loyal: This three -string instrument has a special position in Okinawa as a medium for cultural cycling, peace activity, exchange and celebrations. (Photo: The Third Kijimuna)