Esther Dischereit

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She was a fellow at the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European and Jewish Studies and has lectured widely in the United States; she has been a fellow at the Deutsches Haus New York in 2004, readings and lectures 2006 Princeton University, MIT Boston, also in Canada. She has won stipends from the Hessian Ministry for Science and Art, the Stiftung Preussische Seehandlung in Berlin, the Berlin Senate and the Ernst-Strassmann-Stiftung.

In the 1990s she founded the WordMusic Group (together with Raymond Kaczynski, perc, and others). Published in English: Joëmi`s Table in Contemporary Jewish Writing in Germany – An Anthology by Leslie Morris and Karen Remmler, 2002 by the University of Nebraska Press.

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She also is presented in: Nothing makes you free – Writings by Descendants of Jewish Holocaust Survivors by Melvin Bukiet, 2002, W.W.Norton & Company; Jewish Voices German Words by Elena Lappin, 1994, Catbird Press; No Exit From This Jewry in Reemerging Jewish Culture in Germany Life and Literature since 1989, edited by Sander L. Gilman, Karen Remmler, 1994, New York University Press; The Cyclist Poems translated by Iain Galbraith in Dimensions 2/3 Contemporary German-Language Literature by Ingo R. Stoehr, Louise E. Stoehr, 2003; Aimée and Jaguar: A Love Greater than Death, The History behind the Story of Aimée & Jaguar, Dependence, Prostitution and Resistance (about the German film Aimée und Jaguar by Max Färberböck premiered at the

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Berlinale 1999. Translated by Inga Jablonsky – haGalil onLine - http://www.hagalil.com/alenu/editor.htm); A day or a day translated by Katharina Hall/Tom Cheesman in Index on cencorship, 2005 - Esther Dischereit by Katharina Hall, August 2007, UK. ISBN-13 978-0-7083-1991-8; White Wax Man - Poem in Oposiciones by Adolfo Siurana, Valenica, Spain, 2007; 07./08.05.2005 Berlin - Part. in the commemoration on the 60th anniversary of the end of the war and the Nazi period in Lost Panorama by Susanne Weck/Ulrike Mohr, Berlin, 2007 - "Mama, am I allowed to sing the Germany Song?" et. al. A dress from Warsaw - screenplay together with Michal Otlowski, nominated

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for Prix Geneve, Europe (Best Fiction Script) 2007 - Self-Interview in "Women in German Yearbook", 2007, Nebraska - last production; radio-play Nothing to Know but Coffee to go, premiered 2/2008.

A symposion about Esther Dischereits work was held at the University of Wales, Swansea, in 2003 – readings and lectures at the University of Illinois, Chicago; Madison, Tufts/ MIT, Brandeis, Boston; Cornell University, Ithaca; University of California, Berkeley – writer in residence at Deutsches Haus New York University, 2004 etc. etc. Guest at the Festival de poesia, Medellin, Columbia in 2002. guest of honor, wig conference, USA, 2006; luncheon speaker gsa conference, Pittsburgh, USA, 2006; reading in Princeton University, USA, 2006; Washington-University, St. Louis, 2006 - USA-Tournee, organized by the Auswärtiges Amt der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Washington, 2006, participated in KISUFIM, First international

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conference of Jewish writers, Jerusalem, 2007, 5th Poetry World Festivall Venezuela, may, 2008, writer in residence, Oberlin College, Ohio/USA, 2008, Visiting professor, Dartmouth College, USA, 2009