Who would like to patent life? For and against GMO in Bulgaria A political and public debate is taking place today concerning GMO, aiming changes in the legislation, namely its liberalization. Teodora Litrova moderated the discussion in the Canetti Society. She is a member of the first ecological organization in Bulgaria and former member of More...
A workshop about movie subtitles was organized for university students. “Polar”, the 29-minute film by Michal Koh was chosen for the seminar. The translations were supervised by Franziska Sleier, teacher at Robert Bosh Foundation and Goethe Institute and by Gabriele Timann, a DAAD lecturer in the University of Veliko Tarnovo. Read more...
Ten pictures in seven cities taken in 24 hours: this was the aim of the SouthEast 24-7 photo marathon, in which the citizen of Banja Luka, Osijek, Pécs, Pristina, Ruse, Sibiu and Skopje took part. The winning photos were presented on exhibitions in these cities and published as post cards.
Claudia Barico, scholarship holder of the Robert Bosch foundation, came to Ruse for the translation of the novel “Apostoloff” by Sibylle Lewitscharoff. He has already translated several German authors such as Hanna Arendt and Bertolt Brecht in Spanish.
The Elias Canetti Society invited young artists for a photo-seminar. The only condition was the availability of a camera, desire and inspiration. The seminar was managed by Yavor Sedyankov, a freelance professional photographer with experience in journalistic photography and participant in number of contests and exhibitions.
„Bulgarians and Romanians – partners or neighbours with their back turned to each other?” was the title of the discussion, that was organized in the Austrian library. The main was the historical development of the Bulgarian-Romanian relationship. Different factors that might hinder the relationship were analyzed, as well as those, that can be seen as More...
The recent bulgarian history was the focus of two bookpresentations in January and February. ‘Prijatel na Franzija‘ (‘Friend of France‘) from Kercho Georgiev is a book on socialism. The author was born in the 1930s and in the age of 13 he has been accused of organizing a sabotage group against the regime. This marked More...
The International Elias Canetti Society was a partner of "Across Europe", a large-scale two year literary project. Four writers were sent on a journey throughout Europe with the task to draw an up-to-date map of the European cultural space. "Across Europe" drew a geographic and ideollogic line through this cultural space and posed questions regarding More...
