Berlin writer to read at the corridor magazine launch

THE launch of an exciting new magazine takes place on Friday at 7pm in Roe River Books, Park street. Produced by the people behind the corridor arts project, the publication contains a look back on their events of the past year with exclusive images by Vera Drebusch and Seán Hillen, amongst others. There is also a preview to the future of the corridor and new essays and stories by Garett Carr, Evelyn Conlon, Marcel Krueger and Paul Scraton.

The magazine will be launched by Berlin-based writer Paul Scraton to Dundalk. Paul is a British-born writer and editor who has lived in the German capital for over a decade, and has extensively written about places, borders and European identities. His latest book ‘Ghosts on the Shore: Journeys along Germany’s Baltic coast’ explores the German coast and the GDR history of his wife’s family through a partially fictionalized travelogue.

On the launch night, Paul and Marcel Krueger will read from the publication. Paul will introduce ‘Ghosts on the Shore’ and discuss the old borders of Louth and Berlin (also from the Brexit perspective of a British citizen living in Germany) with Roe River Book’s Tom Muckian and Anne Mager, independent curator and co-initiator of the corridor.

Admission to the launch and reading is free and copies of the publication will be on sale. 2

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