PICADOR at School

The guiding principles underlying the Picador Guest Professorship for Literature are Democracy‚ Diversity and Creativity. The magnificent cultural diversity that the invited authors from the USA, Great Britain and Canada bring to Leipzig will provide these guiding principles with committed ambassadors. The spin-off project ‘Picador at School’ enables students to participate in this form of creative interchange with English-language authors. Classes in the form of creative writing workshops given in cooperation with teachers from the Anton-Philipp-Reclam School engender in students an understanding of the immense treasures to be found in cultural diversity.

The students, around 14 to 18 years old, meet every semester different authors like Oksana Marafioti, Megan Giddings, Josh Weil, Rita Bullwinkel, Morgan Jerkins, Rajesh Parameswaran, Daniel Gumbiner and many more!

Who you are can change and how you change is up to you. You create your own story.

Oksana Marafioti

Workshop-Impressions

The Partners

The motto of the Reclam Grammar School at the German French education centre in Leipzig is “Language connects. Culture communicates. Education unites.” It defines the school’s approach to education, blending lively engagement with a spirit of partnership that conveys to students a broad-based curriculum and enables a wide range of practical activities.

The Institute for American Studies at Leipzig University was refounded in 1994 after the reunification of Germany, but can look back on a rich tradition of American studies in Leipzig that extend back into the 19th century. The Institute now has three Chairs, among them Germany’s first and only Chair for Minority Studies.

Our heartfelt thanks to the U.S. Embassy for its generous support of this project in the last years.

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