The organizers of the 73rd edition of the Frankfurt Book Fair have all reason to be satisfied. Despite the ongoing pandemics and after last year’s digital version…
Whom do we find when we look behind the scenes of the Slovak literary podcast aimed at German readers and publishers? Petra Mikulášová is responsible for the…
The theme of being a stranger is key in the life and work of the award-winning author Irena Brežná. Born in Slovakia, she has been living in the German-speaking…
Dr. Ema Ďurišová was born and grew up in West Slovakia. Since 2006, however, she has been living with her family in Dresden where she works as a doctor at…
The Slovak language plays an important role in the professional life of professor Alexander Wöll, especially when it comes to comparative linguistics; he talks…
Translator Stefanie Bose got in touch with the Slovak language by chance. In 2004/2005, she wanted to travel to South America as a volunteer. Life had a different…
The Czech – and by now also a bit German – writer Jaroslav Rudiš reminisces about his relationship to Slovak language when he was growing up in the northern…
Axel Helbig, the co-publisher and editor of the Magazine for Literature and Art OSTRAGEHEGE, published since 1994, talks about how Saxony – particularly the…
Since 1980s, Angela Repka has been translating from Slovak (and Russian) as well as a tirelessly promoting various forms of Slovak literature in German-speaking…
In the 16th edition of Lit_cast Slowakei Mirko Moritz Kraetsch talks to Peter Deutschmann, who studied Slavic studies and German philology at the Karl-Franzens…
