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Irena Vrkljan: Im Gegenlicht

The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program organises a one-day seminar about Irena Vrkljan. This is very interesting and important because in Croatia Irena Vrkljan is first of all known as a famous writer, and not so much acknowledged as a great documentary film-maker, too.

Foto of Irena Vrkljan: Dario Njavro, HRT

Irena Vrkljan (born 1930 in Belgrade, died 2021 in Zagreb) was an extremely productive writer, audiobook and television author, filmmaker and translator, who moved in her life and in writing between Germany, Yugoslavia, and Croatia. She left behind a bilingual, rich, aesthetically and politically significant body of work that has been received very differently historically in Germany and (the former) Yugoslavia, but whose cross-disciplinary diversity is still largely unexplored.

Slavenka Drakulić, Marko Pogačar and Leon Rizmaul will discuss her life and work. See the whole programm, available in English and German: https://www.berliner-kuenstlerprogramm.de/en/events/irena-vrkljan-im-gegenlicht/

The DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program is a residency program for international cultural practitioners that facilitates and supports creative processes, encounters, and collaborations.

In 2001., Slavenka Drakulić wrote an essay on Irena Vrkljan and the meaning of Irena’s literature for her own literary expression for Eurozine: https://www.eurozine.com/a-personal-reflection/

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