5 June 2025, 6:00 pm, by AAI Webmaster

Photo: OSTASIEN Verlag using a photo by Barbara Brouwer, cropped

We kindly invite you to this book presentation on Thursday, June 5th, 2025, at 18:00–20:00 h (CEST/MESZ).

"Zwischen zwei Kontinenten: Ein literarischer Abend mit Lyrik von Sitor Situmorang"

A collaboration between IASI – Deutschland, MNI – Hamburg, and Austronesian Studies – Uni Hamburg

Speaker:
   Dr. Martina Heinschke

Music by:
   Gondang Batak

Date:
    Thursday, June 5, 2025

Time:
    18:00 – 20:00 p.m. (MESZ/CEST)

Location:
    Asia-Africa-Institute (AAI)
    University of Hamburg
    Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, Flügel Ost ("East Wing"), room O-122
    20146 Hamburg

Language:
   German

Open to public! – No entrance fee!

Sitor Situmorang was an Indonesian poet, author, and playwright. Martina Heinschke is a German translator and Indonesianist who has translated Sitor Situmorang’s poems. She published a selection of his poetry under the title "Zwischen zwei Kontinenten" ("Between Two Continents", 2024, bilingual: Bahasa Indonesia – German).

Sitor Situmorang was born in 1924 in Harianboho, North Sumatra, Indonesia, and passed away in 2014 in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. He is considered one of the most important poets of the 20th century in Indonesia.

Martina Heinschke worked for over three decades in Austronesian studies in Hamburg. Her translation of Sitor Situmorang’s poems is currently available at the library of the University of Hamburg.

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