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CTF discusses about Thomas Melle
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Screening of documentary film ‘’The World at your back” (Thomas Melle’s Die Welt imRücken – Novel and Theatre production) followed by discussion will be conducted as a part of Colombo Theatre Forum at 5 pm on onwards at the Goethe Institut Hall on Marfch 26.
If you are bipolar, your life has no continuity from anymore. The illness has wrecked your past and it looms over your future even more threateninly.
This book offers exceptional insights into what sufferers go through, offering an arresting chronicle of a disrupted broken life.
And also it talks about the illness of his mental disorder and incidentally paints an atmospheric picture of the present pop culture.
A radical autobiography of extraordinary literary power.
Shortlisted for the German Book Prize 2016. It was also selected for the Merk Social Translating Project 2017 testing a new social practice for literary translation.
Born in 1975, Thomas Melle studied applied literary studies and philosophy in Tübingen, Austin, Texas and Berlin. His 2012 debut novel, Sickster, was nominated for the German Book Prize. 2014 saw the publication of 3,000 Euros, which was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. In 2015, Thomas Melle received the Berlin Arts Prize, awarded by the city in which he lives.
Curator of the Colombo Theatre Forum is M. Safeer and speakers are Ashani Shalika Ranasingha and Indeewara Thilakarathna.
Colombo theatre forum is a space created for those who are seeking new dimensions in Sri Lankan theatre. Scholars, Directors, Script writers, Actors & Actresses, Critics, Lighting Directors, Back stage creators, Stage managers, students and spectators can join this forum in order to widen their horizons in the field of theatre.
Colombo Theatre forum organized by Inter Act Art theatre and Goethe – Institut Sri Lanka was re-commenced 2017 with the Participation of many young theatre lovers and foreign delegates. The forum will be held last Monday of this month at the Goethe Institut Hall from 5.00 pm onwards.