{"id":525,"date":"2016-09-16T22:28:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T22:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/german\/?p=525"},"modified":"2017-04-16T22:35:53","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T22:35:53","slug":"workshop-lecture-by-simon-schwartz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/german\/workshop-lecture-by-simon-schwartz\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop & Lecture by Simon Schwartz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe German graphic novel artist and author Simon Schwartz visited Goucher College\u00a0on Sept. 12+13 2016. He gave a workshop on drawing techniques for interested students, and also lectured about his graphic novel dr\u00fcben!<\/em> (2009).\u00a0Born in Erfurt in 1982, Schwartz writes in dr\u00fcben!<\/em>\u00a0about his parents\u2019 difficult exit from the GDR to West Berlin (West Germany) in 1984. He recounts their lives in the GDR, their experiences with oppressions and state-surveillance, and how they came to the decision to leave. His\u00a0paternal grandparents who had been life-long\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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ardent supporters of the real-socialist state resented that decision and\u00a0refused all contact with their son and his family afterwards. In the lecture, Simon Schwartz gave insights into the production and writing process of the graphic novel, and also talked about his conversations with his parents and grandparents. Looking back, Simon Schwartz says that a tremendous rage at his family\u2019s inability to speak with each other was the motivation behind dr\u00fcben!\u00a0<\/i>His insightful lecture ended with a book signing that included original drawings by the author. This lecture was sponsored by the German program and the Evelyn Myers lecture fund.<\/p>\n

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The German graphic novel artist and author Simon Schwartz visited Goucher College\u00a0on Sept. 12+13 2016. He gave a workshop on drawing techniques for interested students, and also lectured about his graphic novel dr\u00fcben! (2009).\u00a0Born in Erfurt in 1982, Schwartz writes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":293,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31331,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lectures-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/293"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":536,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions\/536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.goucher.edu\/german\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}