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leaf triumphes again in Daniil Pashkoff Prize 2006 Once more newleaf authors triumphed at the Daniil Pashkoff Prize. On Friday, 2nd June, Silke Hartmann and Julia Scheit won first and second prize respectively for the prose section of the Daniil Pashkoff Prize 2006.In addition, the anthology of prize-winners 2003 to 2005, entitled Feel the Words Burning on your Tongue (124 pages), has finally appeared, containing texts by, in chronological order, Rosi Oelke, Katrin Oellerich, Tatjana Pfennig, Julia Scheit, Julia Boll and Franziska Kreuser. Congratulations!new
leaf goes erotic: We're cunning lingo.. At 8 p.m. on May 4th 2006, we'll have a reading of erotic texts in Cafe Ambiente. Finally, the newleaf team has found a title which will not have the magazine banned: Cunning lingo.There will be a selection of sensual and sensuous texts. Singer-songwriter Jan Stroeh, whoclaims to have erotic songs in his repertoire, will be providing the music. It'll cost 2 Euros admission (only 1 Euro for students and other reduced, of course).Check out the "Events" page nearer the time.newleaf author publishes crime thriller
newleaf congratulates Annette Freudling (author in newleaf 3 and 5) on the publication of her first crime thriller Blindgänger, which is largely set in Bremen, where Annette lived for ten years, studying English; German and Cultural Studies. She is now a newspaper editor in Lower Saxony.
You’ll find an interview with Annette Freudling about her book on the website of the Deutsche-Krimi-Autoren at www.deutsche-krimi-autoren.de/freuling.
Sonja Jung, a young History student, is found drowned under suspicious circumstances after failing her exam dissertation. Her blind father Hanno doesn’t believe the suicide theory and, in order to find the truth, travels from Wilhelmshaven to Bremen, where Kommissar Josch Adamis is hoping to go on holiday to forget the break up of his relationship...
Blindgänger is published by Schardt Verlag, Oldenburg and costs 12,80 € (ISBN 3898412008) Here, from newleaf 3, is Annette Freudling’s poem ‘Autumn Pause’:
Autumn Pause
I'm late again, as every morning I recall
and now I pedal through the park with speed.
I've fled the morning traffic luckily again.
Now, trying to relax my lungs and brain,
I breathe. Already sweaty, I remind my tired feet
to work, but then I stop to tighten up my shawl.
The trees are rustling from a distant winter-call
and, conscious of each second that I waste,
I curse the creeping coldness. Swirling, mocking me,
a leaf brushes my cheek. The drooping tree
will soon have cried its tears. This year my daily haste
has stolen summertime from me – and now it's fall!
Somehow I feel defeated by the year. With all
its months and days it's still too short. As I
move on I'm strangely certain that I felt the same
last autumn, yet I always thought my aim
in life was to enjoy each day. I wonder why
I pinned, at all, a carpe diem on my wall.
newleaf scores: Launch party with reading and music for newleaf 20
On Thursday, 19th January 2006, newleaf, the University of Bremen's English-speaking literary magazine, celebrates its 20th edition with the traditional launch party in KIOTO/Lagerhaus. Starting at 8 p.m., the programme features old and new newleaf authors, some of them prize-winning, presenting funny, serious and even droll prose and poetry. newleaf regular Diana-Maria Diehl creates the musical ambiente typical of our launches.