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SUMMARY:Staged reading with Nefeli Kentoni
DESCRIPTION:On November 23\, a staged reading directed by Nefeli Kentoni will take place\, organized by the Austrian Embassy and the Goethe-Institut Cyprus. Selected literary texts from the German-speaking world will be performed live on stage. \nLimassol – a city in transition. Gentrification and rapid urban development shape its face\, transforming streets\, houses\, and ways of life. In this reading\, we invite you on a poetic journey through the city’s transformation: its construction\, its destruction\, and the traces it leaves within us. The selected poems and texts reflect the ambivalence of the urban\, between progress and loss\, hope and despair. \nFor this event\, Nefeli Kentoni has engaged deeply with city poems by the German poet Bertolt Brecht and with the work Awakening to the Great Sleep War by the Austrian author Gert Jonke\, combining them into a unique fusion. Let yourself be surprised by this exciting and extraordinary connection! \nDirected by: Nefeli Kentoni\nOn stage: Fatima Rodriguez\, Melina Koutsofta\nModerated by: Androula Kafa\n\nInformation about the texts and Nefeli Kentoni: \nBrecht’s city poems mirror the contradictory experience of the metropolis: they reveal the harshness and desolation of urban life\, yet at the same time\, a glimpse of another future shines through. Amid concrete and despair\, hope persists\, the idea that even from the deepest darkness\, a path to salvation can emerge. \nIn 1982\, the Austrian author Gert Jonke published Awakening to the Great Sleep War\, a virtuoso narrative in which the reality of a city disintegrates. Tram tracks shed their stops\, books flee from libraries\, stone figures detach themselves from facades. For this\, Jonke invents the “acoustic space designer” Burgmüller\, a poetic adventurer who conducts flocks of birds\, loves three women\, and philosophically observes: “Everything has become so transparent that nothing can be seen through anymore.” The work is considered one of the major achievements of the author\, who passed away in 2009. \nNefeli Kentoni (b. 1998\, Cyprus) is a London-based director\, writer\, and interdisciplinary artist whose work responds to the remains of a world that endlessly collapses and endlessly erects. The theatrical and cinematic form have been the platform in which she negotiates and explores the gaps between language and image\, the performer-viewer relationship\, and the performativity of space. Weaving together tenderness\, absurdity\, and humour\, she dismantles reality and rebuilds it within unpredictable landscapes. \nNefeli is a graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Central Saint Martins (UAL)\, where she was nominated for the MullenLowe NOVA Award. Her work has been showcased internationally at institutions and festivals including the Prague Quadrennial\, Tate Modern\, Barbican Centre\, Cyprus State Gallery of Contemporary Art\, The Place\, Nicosia International Festival\, Dance House Lefkosia\, and the Chengdu–Chongqing International Theatre Festival\, among others. \nIn 2020\, she served as Writer in Residence at Tate Exchange and took part in the Barbican’s Young Visual Arts Group for two consecutive years. Her short film Fragility of Language won the Screendance Short Film Competition at the 36th Leeds International Film Festival. Her performance Katabasis was a finalist at the Offies Awards 2025 and received the Best Director Award at the Chengdu–Chongqing International Theatre Festival in China\, where her performance Wall of Babel was also honoured with the Best Play Award. \n  \nTake the opportunity to engage with German-language literature. \nWe look forward to seeing you!
URL:https://www.wddscyprus.com/event/staged-reading-with-nefeli-kentoni/
LOCATION:Lanitis Carob Mill\, Limassol\, by the Medieval Castle Limassol
CATEGORIES:Events 2025,Staged Reading
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SUMMARY:Die Diplomatin (The Diplomat)
DESCRIPTION:Discussion with the author Lucy Fricke and the translator Theo Votsos at the 4th Limassol International Book Fair\nModerated by Constantia Soteriou.\n22 November 2025\, 15:00. Stage 5. Lanitis Carob Mills\, Limassol\nOn November 22\, German author Lucy Fricke and her translator Theo Votsos will speak about her novel The Diplomat\, at the invitation of the Goethe-Institut. \nIn her novel The Diplomat (Keimena Books)\, Lucy Fricke tells the story of Fred\, a seasoned and ambitious German consul who feels at home everywhere and nowhere—until she experiences her first professional failure in Montevideo. Her reassignment to Istanbul\, amid political tensions\, presents her with the greatest challenge of her career. Torn between diplomatic duties\, personal loneliness\, and moral dilemmas\, she begins to question the core values of her profession. \nWith biting humor and a sharp eye\, Lucy Fricke portrays a woman who loses faith in diplomacy – and in the patience that has sustained her until now. \nLucy Fricke\, born in Hamburg and now living in Berlin\, has received multiple awards for her literary work. Most recently\, she was awarded the Roswitha Prize in 2024\, a German literary award honoring outstanding achievements by women living in Europe. Her novel Daughters received the Bavarian Book Prize in 2018\, was translated into eight languages\, and successfully adapted for cinema. \nTheo Votsos\, born in Stuttgart to Greek guest workers\, works as a literary translator\, translating works from Greek and German. He is also a freelance editor for various print and online media in the fields of film and literature. \nConstantia Soteriou\, born in Nicosia\, is one of Cyprus’s most prominent contemporary authors. Soteriou’s literary work focuses on Cyprus’s recent history\, particularly the tensions between Greek and Turkish Cypriots and the consequences after 1974. \nTake this opportunity to engage with contemporary German-language literature.
URL:https://www.wddscyprus.com/event/die-diplomatin-the-diplomat/
LOCATION:Lanitis Carob Mill\, Limassol\, by the Medieval Castle Limassol
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