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BOH Cameronian Arts Awards

"If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed."

- David Hockney
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Title : Folke Tegetthoff: Story Telling
Venue : Various Venues
Date & Time : Tue 14 - Wed 15 Oct 2008
Tickets : Free Admission
Phone :03-2164 2011
Email : director@kualalumpur.goethe.org
URL : http://www.tegetthoff.at/en/e_erzaehler.htm
Synopsis : Born in Graz, Austria, Folke Tegetthoff's first book of modern fairy tales was published in 1979 when he was 25.

To date, he has published 31 books with over 1.4 million copies sold, which have been translated into several languages, including Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Folke is the organiser of the world’s biggest storytelling festival Graz Erzaehlt - Tales of Graz, (since 1988) and he has given over 3500 performances (in German and English) in 38 countries around the world.

In 1984, the Folke Tegetthoff Collection, the first official archive worldwide about his work was opened at Murray State University in Kentucky, USA.

He lives with his wife and four children in an old, former nunnery in the south of the Austrian province of Styria.

Folke will be making several appearances:


Tue, 14 Oct 2008:

3pm

German-Malaysian Institute, Bangi Campus (in German)

8pm
Soka Gakkai Malaysia (in English)


Wed, 15 Oct 2008

10am
German School KL (German)

3pm
IPBA (Foreign Language Teachers Institute) (Eng)

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Presented by the Goethe-Institut KL in cooperation with the Austrian Embassy.

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