An Ingo Shulce will be held at Moscow State University

On October 2, the writer Ingo Shulce will present at Moscow State University his novel “Peter Holz. His happy life told by himself ”, which was nominated for the German literary prize of 2017.

The presentation start at 11:00, the entrance is free by preliminary registration .

“The main character of the novel is brought up in an orphanage in the GDR and firmly believes in the values ​​of socialism. The naive by nature, Peter Holtsu is fantastically lucky even after the fall of the Berlin wall, he reaches incredible material well-being, trying to combine the socialist ideology with capitalism, ”the organizers of the meeting, Goethe Institute in Moscow tell about the book.

Ingo Shulce was born in 1962 in Dresden, studied classical philology in Jena, worked as a playwright at the State Theater of Altenburg. Ingo Shulce literary activities began in 1990, when he and his friends founded the Altenburg weekly. Three years later, in St. Petersburg, under his leadership, the Hello, Petersburg advertising newspaper began to publish. Since 1993, he has been living and working in Berlin.

The author of the books “33 Moments of Happiness” (1995), “ Simple Storys : Roman from the life of the East German province” (1998), “New Life” (2005), “Mobile phone” (2007), “Adam and Evelyn” (2008), “What do we want?” (2009), “Orange and angels: Italian sketches” (2010), “Our beautiful new clothes: against market-oriented democracy, for a market-oriented market” (2012) and “Peter Holz: His happy life told by him” (2017).

Ingo Shulce books are translated into 30 languages ​​and awarded national and international awards. The author is a member of the Berlin Academy of Arts, the German Academy of Language and Poetry and the Saxon Academy of Arts in Dresden.

The central topics of Ingo Schulce's works are life in the GDR and the mentality of citizens of the GDR, the unification of Germany and, as a result, a political and social transition from socialism to capitalism. The author born in Eastern Germany connects a lot with Russia. He lived for some time in St. Petersburg, which not only partially formed him as a writer and prompted him to create the book “33 Moments of Happiness”, but also influenced his political views.