Storie : Festival
Literature
Stories under the olive tree
When
22. Aug
09:00
Where
In the olive grove – near the church
Matinee in the olive grove
Literature in the morning
From 9:00 a.m. Coffee, tea and croissants
9:00–10:00 a.m.
Readings
Austrian writers (invited) with partial translation into Italian
10.00–11.00
Reading:
Cornelius Hell – The Austrian author, literary critic and translator reads texts written in Umbria/Preggio. .
11.15–12.15 Uhr
Reading & Music:
Words like music
Teresa Indjeinreads poems by Renzo Gheradini
(Deutsch & Italienisch)
Musik: Harpe
Reading and concert in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum in Rome.
Words like Music/ Parole come Musica (2011, zweitraumverlag – translated from Italian by Teresa Indjein)
9:00–10:00 a.m.
Readings
Austrian writers (invited) with partial translation into Italian
10.00–11.00
Reading:
Cornelius Hell – The Austrian author, literary critic and translator reads texts written in Umbria/Preggio. .
11.15–12.15 Uhr
Reading & Music:
Words like music
Teresa Indjeinreads poems by Renzo Gheradini
(Deutsch & Italienisch)
Musik: Harpe
Reading and concert in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum in Rome.
Words like Music/ Parole come Musica (2011, zweitraumverlag – translated from Italian by Teresa Indjein)
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Cornelius Hell, born in Salzburg in 1956, lives in Vienna as an author, critic and translator from Lithuanian.
His book ‘Lesezeichen und Lebenszeiten. Streifzüge durch Bücher und Biografien’ (Bookmarks and Lifetimes: Ramblings through Books and Biographies) was published in 2025.
Among other honours, he was awarded the Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation in 2018, an Elias Canetti scholarship in 2019-21 and the City of Vienna Journalism Prize in 2025.
Cornelius Hell stayed in Preggio in 2018 and will read texts that were written there or relate to it.
After studying law and music in her home city of Vienna,Teresa Indjein set off to live abroad, spending time in Milan, Nice, Warsaw, Washington, Berlin and Rome. Her work focuses on cultural diplomacy – building international bridges for Austria through the arts. Numerous publications. The book ‘Worte wie Musik’ is the first translation of Renzo Gherardini’s poetry into German.
