Guest lecture/discussion with Dr. Maddalena Fingerle entitled: "Italian, German and South Tyrolean in experimental writing"

As part of the seminar Südtirol/Alto Adige: Literarische Aushandlungen im kulturellen Spannungsfeld by Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Tiller, we would like to invite you to a guest lecture with Dr. Maddalena Fingerle. In her novel Lingua madre (2021), Maddalena Fingerle, who hails from Bolzano, takes us right into the heart of the difficult multilingualism of Bolzano/South Tyrol – where administrative regulations may seem to pacify the coexistence of the language groups, but do not resolve the inner turmoil of the speakers. The example of Paolo Prescher, a young man from Bolzano who moves to Berlin to escape having to speak Italian, only to return to start afresh, brings home the language issue with all its identity-shaping force.