Reading and discussion
Petros Markaris
Reading and Conversation in the series Word Worlds
In Greek and German
Markaris Petros is of Greek-Armenian descent, grew up in Istanbul, studied in Vienna, and has lived in Athens for 40 years. Readers in 14 languages have been dazzled by his unforgettable character, Inspector Charitos. In his final case, "The Nanny", Charitos follows a murderous 90-year-old to Constantinople and into a past with a beautiful and ugly face.
Markaris offers us his, thus far, most personal book. His new work, "Straight through Athens: a Journey from Piraeus to Kifissia” is a travel guide to the Greek capital, but it is also about the construction boom, traffic chaos, corruption and coffee shops. In conversation with his translator Michaela Prinzinger, Markaris talks about cosmopolitan Istanbul, and reports on the current crisis in Greece, a problem he often discusses in public.
Moderator: Miltos Pechlivanos, FU Berlin
In cooperation with the Griechische und Lateinische Philologie der FU Berlin and the Diogenes-Verlag