Talking about Rodrian

This event commemorates the outstanding publisher and writer with a staged reading of texts, interviews and letters that reflect Rodrian’s (working) life. The musical backdrop is provided by poems set to music by Peter Hacks, a close friend of Rodrian’s.

Afterwards, Prof. Dr Kohl will place Fred Rodrian’s work and significance within the broader contemporary context and highlight the impact of his work, which continues to leave its mark to this day.

A small display case exhibition featuring Rodrian’s works and personal artefacts rounds off the evening.

Prof. Dr Eva Maria Kohl is a writer and retired professor of primary school didactics/German at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. As a young academic, she worked at the GDR Centre for Children’s Literature in East Berlin, and to this day she has remained enthusiastically committed to researching and promoting children’s and young adult literature. Professor Kohl is one of the few people who can assess and describe the GDR children’s book market and its background both from her own first-hand experience and, with the benefit of hindsight, from an academic perspective. Together with Michael Ritter, she published the volume *Kindheitsgeschichten: Eine Spurensuche in der ostdeutschen Kinder- und Jugendliteratur* in 2022.