BOOK TRAILER TO THE NOVEL "NENNEN SIE MICH DIENER" from Milena Oda /Director: Frank Nagel/ 2011
MILENA ODA IN THE TALKSHOW ON RADIO IN NEW YORK invited by Frank Ferrante (November 2011):
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lugaduga/2011/11/28/frank-talk-with-frank-ferrante-to-live-and-grow-up-in-germ
MILENA ODA READS HER ESSAY FOR THE RADIO IN NEW YORK: DOG´S FREEDOM: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/odamilena/2011/11/28/literary-critical-essay-dogs-freedom
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http://iwp.uiowa.edu/about/index.html
MILENA ODA´S BLOG ABOUT HER STAY IN IOWA CITY/ AT THE INTERNATIONAL WRITING PROGRAM and IN THE USA::
September 9th: in SHAMBAUGH HOUS in Iowa City
29th ADOBEBOOKS Bookstore in San Francisco
October 14th PANEL READING in PUBLIC LIBRARY in Iowa City. Essay in Englisch:
"Dog´s Freedom"
16th in GERMAN AMERICAN HERITAGE:http://gahc.org/MilenaOda.htm
November 3rd Reading at the COLLEGE GRINNELL /Iowa
Since 1967, over a thousand writers from more than 120 countries have attended the IWP at the University of Iowa. The project is designed for established and emerging creative writers — poets, fiction writers, dramatists, and non-fiction writers.
The University of Iowa is the nation’s premier center for creative writing. Giving and attending talks and readings, and meeting with well-known and emerging visiting American writers give the international writers broad exposure to currents in American literature. We also strive to give each writer the opportunity to present his or her work in a public forum. Televised and radio interviews with individuals and groups of writers are broadcast in the Iowa City and university communities.
NEW VIDEO WITH MILENA ODA. M.Oda reads in German her poems: Nobody and from her new novel: Please call me Servant by "Orange Ear", Berlin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnyKzE4uboc&feature=autofb
Video mady by Frank Nagel // http://www.fnag-video.de
APRIL 23 9pm: “Offener Raum”, Scharnweberstr. 47, 10247 Berlin / Friedrichshain - U-Bahn-Samaritenstr.
MILENA ODA´S NEW BOOKS:
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Debut-novel: "Nennen Sie mich Diener". Verlag Schumachergebler. Dresden, 2011 /// In English: Please call me Servant/
Two disturbed men, obsessed by their own rules and systems: Leonard believes he is an obedient servant but serves only himself, according to a system of serving rules he himself has determined. Professor King can only relate to the world through arithmetic; he is a numbers collector who has developed a system for measuring every footstep. He employs Leonard believing he can manipulate him. Leonard believes he has finally found a master he can serve. Both men founder on the rocks of their demands and desires. Milena Oda has created two extraordinary figures, authentically masculine, and with them a dysfunctional fairy tale with a bizarre and a surprising ending.
To buy the book by: www.verlag.schumachergebler.de
"I am delighted to see Milena Oda’s novel published, not least because it has revived a tradition which connects German, Czech and Jewish culture after decades in which no German literary voices have been heard from Prague. Milena Oda, who writes in German, yet speaks it with a Czech accent, has brought this accent back into German literature. A spirited, strange and stimulating pulse beats through her sentences. They remind us that writing can mean discovery, can reveal new depths. Above all she shows us the human weaknesses and defects which are actually obsessions, actually passions. She shows exceptional human beings, isolated within themselves, shows their abnormal needs, curious desires. They lay themselves bare and know no shame. But however perverse their disgrace might seem, it is simply the unbandaged wound we usually choose not to lick – we, the normal ones, who live without burdens and perish without dreams."
Volker Braun, German Writer
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Prose: "Ferenc. Die Liebeserklärung an die Schuhe" // Ferenc. Vyznání lásky k botám. In German and Czech. Verzone. Prague, 2011. To buy by: www.verzone.cz
THE BOOKS you can buy by www.bookolooker.de // www.AMAZON.com // www.BUCHHANDEL.DE
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- Thursday March 17th 2011, 6.30 pm, LESE-Café Puschkin, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 74, 04275 Leipzig
- Sunday March 20th 2011, 12-12,30 pm im Forum International int the Book Fair Hall.
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ONLINE PUBLISHING in the online magazine NO MAN´S LAND: An English excerpt of my novel in German "Nennen Sie mich Diener" now in English "PLEASE CALL ME SERVANT". Translated by Steph Morris. "no man's land features first-ever translations of fiction and poetry by some of the finest writers working in German today."************
