Han Kang met German readers in Berlin on Monday at the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie, appearing at the new Satzwechsel reading program. The event, jointly presented with the International Literature Festival Berlin, was sold out in advance. She read from Light and Thread and We Do Not Part and joked with the audience while discussing her work. The program mixed Korean, German and English and was designed to bring music and literature together.
Novelist Han Kang gives a reading at the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie in Berlin, Monday (local time). Korea Times photo by Jung Seung-im
BERLIN — Korean Novelist Han Kang met German readers for the first time since receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in Germany on Monday (local time), taking the stage at the Chamber Music Hall of the Berlin Philharmonie, one of the world's most renowned classical music venues.
The occasion was “Satzwechsel,” a reading performance jointly presented by the International Literature Festival Berlin and the Berlin Philharmonie. The German title can be translated as “changing sentences” or “changing movements.” The Berlin Philharmonie created the new chamber music program to bring music and literature together.
