Reading and workshop with author Christopher Kloeble

The German Department welcomed author and former Max Kade Writer-in-Residence Christopher Kloeble back to the department! Mr. Kloeble presented a reading from his newest novel Das Museum der Welt (The Museum of the World) on April 20, which has recently been translated into English. On April 21, he hosted a workshop titled “Changing your perspective on the colonial past & retelling history through stories.”

Christopher Kloeble is a German novelist, playwright, and scriptwriter. He studied at the German Creative Writing Program Leipzig and at the University for Film and Television in Munich, and he has held teaching assignments and residencies in Germany, the US, the UK, and India, among others. Kloeble is the author of numerous additional novels, including Unter Einzelgängern, Wenn es klopft, Meistens alles sehr schnell, and Die unsterbliche Familie Salz. His first non-fiction book, Home Made in India, was published in 2017. He lives in Berlin and Delhi.