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Literárny salón so žijúcim klasikom Christophom Ransmayrom
Literary salon with the living classic Christoph Ransmayr
Event by: Goethe-Institut Bratislava, Nadácia Volkswagen Slovakia, Rakúske kultúrne fórum Bratislava / Österreichisches Kulturforum Bratislava
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Christoph Ransmayr: Cox or the passage of time
Moderated by: Michal Hvorecký
Christoph Ransmayr has become a living classic of Austrian, but also of all German written literature. He was born in 1954 in Wels, Upper Austria, and grew up in the pre-Alpine town of Roitham near Gmunden on the banks of the Traunsee. He studied philosophy at the University of Vienna, and after years spent in Ireland and traveling, he now lives mainly in Vienna. His prose debut Desy mrazu a temnoty (1984) was also published in Czech. His most famous novels are Posledný svet and Morbus Kitahara, which were translated into many languages and the author won prestigious awards for them. Ransmayr traveled the remote world with the mountaineer Reinhold Messner and went on several expeditions with his faithful companion Martin Pollack, together they also wrote a book of short stories about Poland.
In 2025, a novel translated into Czech by Jiří Pondelíček was published by the SPHERA publishing house. In the story, the Chinese emperor calls an English watchmaker to the Forbidden City to measure his love, death and eternity. A book about power, time and an impossible task written in a captivating author's style and original poetic language.
The event is organized by the Goethe-Institut, the Austrian Cultural Forum Bratislava, the cultural department of the City of Bratislava-Staré Mesto and the Old Town Centers of Culture. With the kind support of the Volkswagen Slovakia Foundation as part of the Literary Salon series.
In German with Slovak interpretation.
Photo: Robert Brembeck
Christoph Ransmayr: Cox or the passage of time
Moderated by: Michal Hvorecký
Christoph Ransmayr has become a living classic of Austrian, but also of all German written literature. He was born in 1954 in Wels, Upper Austria, and grew up in the pre-Alpine town of Roitham near Gmunden on the banks of the Traunsee. He studied philosophy at the University of Vienna, and after years spent in Ireland and traveling, he now lives mainly in Vienna. His prose debut Desy mrazu a temnoty (1984) was also published in Czech. His most famous novels are Posledný svet and Morbus Kitahara, which were translated into many languages and the author won prestigious awards for them. Ransmayr traveled the remote world with the mountaineer Reinhold Messner and went on several expeditions with his faithful companion Martin Pollack, together they also wrote a book of short stories about Poland.
In 2025, a novel translated into Czech by Jiří Pondelíček was published by the SPHERA publishing house. In the story, the Chinese emperor calls an English watchmaker to the Forbidden City to measure his love, death and eternity. A book about power, time and an impossible task written in a captivating author's style and original poetic language.
The event is organized by the Goethe-Institut, the Austrian Cultural Forum Bratislava, the cultural department of the City of Bratislava-Staré Mesto and the Old Town Centers of Culture. With the kind support of the Volkswagen Slovakia Foundation as part of the Literary Salon series.
In German with Slovak interpretation.
Photo: Robert Brembeck