Poetry reading by the Eketahuna German Literature Society

“German Poems and that, aye”.

© Astrid Wolter

What a fun evening we had at the book launch of Eketahuna German Literature Society - A Poetry Collection!

Assisted at times by members of the Auckland Goethe Society and the audience, curators and translators Cordelia Black and Robbie Ellis read several of their collected German poems, together with their very ‘kiwi’ interpretations.

Goethe, Schiller, Hölderlin, Heine, Rilke, Schumann and other well-known German poets have never before been translated into quite the English of these talented, unconventional and humorous young Kiwis.

A superb evening… and many copies of their book were sold, with gratefully accepted personalised messages from Robbie and Cordelia.

Wendy Thomson

© Astrid Wolter