Black Forest Writing Seminars: July 26 – August 6, 2010
Applications for the Summer Session 2010 are now being accepted on a rolling basis through May. Please check back with us periodically for new course listings, faculty, and program highlights.
faculty
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| Sieglinde Lemke, Director |
Emily Lundin, Co-Director |
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| Bastian Günther | Courtney Zoffness |
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| Annika Reich | Graham Smith |
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| Megan O’Grady | Ann Hostetler |
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| Steve Kettmann | Kirk Nesset |
Bastian Günther has a degree in filmmaking from the “German Film and Television Academy Berlin“ (DFFB). He writes his own screenplays. With his DFFB – graduation film, “End of a Trip,“ a 26-minute short film, he won the “First Steps Award“ in 2006. /Autopilots/, his first narrative feature, premiered at the Berlinale in 2007 and went on to numerous international festivals (Shanghai, Montreal, Madrid, Banff). The film won the MFG-Star in Baden-Baden in 2007. He has worked as an assistant director to Christian Petzold and Marin Martschewski.
Megan O’Grady is the literary critic for American Vogue and a contributor to the New York Times Book Review. She divides her time between New York and Berlin.
Courtney Zoffness’ fiction has appeared in Washington Square, St. Ann’s Review, Tampa Review, and the Fish Prize Stories anthology and elsewhere, and has been honored by Best New American Voices, the UA Foundation, and the Breadloaf Writer’s Conference. The former managing editor of the UN-sponsored Earth Times, Zoffness has also contributed dozens of features and reviews to the New York Metro, MTV Networks, and Ladies’ Home Journal. She studied writing at the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and at the University of Arizona, and has taught at University of Pennsylvania and Yale University. Currently she’s a visiting assistant professor at Allegheny College.
Annika Reich hat Ethnologie und Philosophie studiert und arbeitet als freie Schriftstellerin, Essayistin und Gastdozentin an der Freien Universität Berlin. Ihr Prosadebüt Teflon erschien 2003 im Suhrkamp Verlag, wo voraussichtlich 2010 auch ihr neuer Roman Weiß ist keine Farbe sowie der Erzählungsband Play it again! erscheinen wird, für den sie ein Stipendium des Berliner Senats bekam. 2001 gewann sie den 1. Literaturpreis von MAX und dem Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. Ihre Essays, die an der Schnittstelle Literatur/ Kunst/ Wissenschaft angesiedelt sind, erschienen in diversen kulturwissenschaftlichen Büchern, Ausstellungskatalogen und Kulturzeitschriften.
Emily Lundin initially came to Freiburg in 2006 on a Creative Writing Fulbright Fellowship. She earned her M.A. from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, her M.F.A. from the University of Arizona, and currently teaches literature and creative writing at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where she helped found the Black Forest Writing Seminars. Some of her recent fiction can be read in Bordercrossing-Berlin, Cutthroat: a Journal of the Arts, the extra room, and Oregon Literary Review. She’s finishing a novel set in Mississippi, where she grew up.
Sieglinde Lemke is a professor at the English Departement at the Universität of Freiburg. She also taught at the John F. Kennedy-Institute (FU Berlin) and at Harvard. The author of /Primitivist Modernism; Black Culture and the Origins of Transatlantic Modernism/ (Oxford University Press, 1998) and /Vernacular Matters: A Comparative Approach to American Literature/ (Palgrave McMillan, 2009), she is currently working on a book entitled /Facing Poverty/.
Steve Kettmann is an American writer living in Berlin. A former staff reporter for New York Newsday and the San Francisco Chronicle, he is now apolitical columnist for the Berliner Zeitung, and has contributed to publications including Der Spiegel Online, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, GQ, and the New Republic. A finalist for the 2001 Online Journalism Award in commentary for writing in Salon.com and Wired.com, his book One Day at Fenway was nominated for a Quill Award. He has co-authored or ghosted a number of books, including the New York Times No. 1 best-seller, Juiced — the Jose Conseco steroid tell-all, and What a Party!, co-written with Hillary Clinton campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe, a No. 1 best-seller on the Washington Post nonfiction list.
Kirk Nesset is author of two books of short stories, Paradise Road (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007), and Mr. Agreeable (Mammoth press, 2009), as well as a nonfiction study, The Stories of Raymond Carver (Ohio University Press, 1995). His books of poems and translations are forthcoming: St. X (Lewis Clark Press) and Alphabet of the World (University of Oklahoma Press). He was awarded the Drue Heinz literature award and has received a Pushcart Prize and numerous grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His stories, poems, and translations have appeared in The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Agni, The Sun, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He teaches creative writing and literature at Allegheny College.
Ann Hostetler is a Professor of English at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana where she teaches American literature and Creative Writing. During her sabbatical in 2009-2010 she was a Guest Professor at the University of Freiburg and taught a course on “American Selves and their Communities.” She is the author of Empty Room with Light: Poems (Pandora Press 2002) and editor of A Cappella: Mennonite Voices in Poetry (University of Iowa Press 2003). Her essays and poems have appeared in PMLA, The American Scholar, The Valparaiso Poetry Review, and many other places. Her work is featured in Making Poems: Forty Poems with Commentary by the Poets (SUNY Press, 2010).