Kapsel – Science-Fiction aus China – Sechs Geschichten von heute über morgen
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- Category: Book
- Topic: Literature
- Publisher: Kapsel, Maro Verlag
- Country: Germany
- Language: German
- Release: 2022
- Cover: Softcover
- Binding: Thread
- Size: 11.5 x 19.5 cm
- Pages: 160
An anthology edited by the Kapsel team – Lukas Dubro, Felix Meyer zu Venne, Frederike Schneider-Vielsäcker – with texts by six authors from China and the USA and five authors from Berlin.
Translation from Chinese and English: Felix Meyer zu Venne, Lukas Dubro, Chong Shen, Mengge Chen
Six stories from today about tomorrow –
the name says it all: This anthology gives an insight into China's diverse science fiction cosmos. The stories by internationally known authors such as Chen Qiufan and Regina Kanyu Wang pose questions of justice, explore genre boundaries, are loaded with surprising images and show a China far away from Western clichés. Five young authors from Berlin and students from the Berlin Weißensee Art Academy and the Lette Association respond to the six short stories.
The volume is based on a series of discussions at the Berlin Kunsthaus Acud, in which outstanding representatives of the Chinese science fiction cosmos were guests from September 2019 to October 2020 at the invitation of capsule magazine. The authors Chen Qiufan, Ken Liu, Xia Jia, Chi Hui, Jiang Bo and Regina Kanyu Wang discussed literature and the future with scientists such as Song Mingwei, Mao Yishu and Gao Xiaoxue, and Berlin artists. The starting point for the discussions was the stories in this anthology.
The anthology documents the artistic conversation about the six stories from China, which was conducted in two accompanying workshops. The Berlin writers Anja Kümmel, Rudi Nuss, Anja Engst, Julia Dorsch and Philipp Böhm respond to the stories from China. They spin the stories further, reflecting and commenting from a European perspective. The imagery from the stories is captured with pen and brush: the illustrator Christoph Köster as well as Ezequiel Hyon, Claudia Schramke, Christina Janjira Meyer, Isabel Rudek, Judith Weber and Bilge Emir. Marius Wenker designed the book.
