Technical Note: We recommend arriving early for this event! Starting at 8:00 p.m., the Maschinenhaus will only be accessible via the KNAACKSTRASSE entrance. (Reception and tickets will then only be available at the ticket tent in the courtyard!) This is due to the public soccer broadcast taking place in the courtyard of the Kulturbrauerei…
With her unconventional, imaginative books full of whimsical ideas and human depths, Dora Kaprálová is currently the most important voice in Czech literature from Berlin. We introduce her and her work, and also take a closer look at her latest book, a magical portrait of a small European town—complete with a dictator and a hypnotist—as seen through the eyes of a housefly: *The Maribor Hypnosis* has just been awarded the 2026 EULP Grand Prize (European Literature Prize).
This sneak preview gives us our first look at the new novel—which is currently still being translated—in its German translation. *Die Mariborhypnose* has already won this year’s Magnesia Litera Prize in the Czech Republic—specifically, the main “Kniha roku” (Book of the Year) award—as well as the Luxor Litera za prózu (Luxor Litera for Prose). However, the book will not be published in German by mikrotext until September: The author will be reading from it together with her translator Nataša von Kopp!
Dora Kaprálová (Prose)
Nataša von Kopp (German translation)
Host Martin Jankowski
The event will be held in German with Czech passages (and translations).
Tickets: 5,-/reduced 3,-€ available only at the box office at the Maschinenhaus.
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