29 August
2013
18:00 hrs

Auditorium
Embassy of India
Tiergartenstr. 17
10785 Berlin
Bus 200 Tiergartenstraße

Please show your valid identity card or passport at the entry point!
Free admission
for a maximum of 200 guests. Bags and eatables should not be brought inside the premises of the Embassy.
Information:
030-25 79 54 -03/ -05

Commemoration
GELEBTE WACHHEIT
Roland Beer
(1938 - 2012)

Commemoration
GELEBTE WACHHEIT
Gedenkveranstaltung für den Indologen und Verleger
Commemorative event for Indologist and Publisher
Roland Beer (1938 - 2012)
anlässlich seines 75. Geburtstages
on the occasion of his 75th birth anniversary

Ein Erinnerungs- und Lesestreifzug mit Texten von Roland Beer, Fritz Bennewitz, Nirmal Verma u.a.
Musikalische Begleitung: Laura Patchen (Tabla) und Mila Morgenstern (Flöte)
Moderation: Rajvinder Singh

Late Roland Beer, one of the greatest friends of India in Germany, dedicated his life to strengthen the Indo-German cultural exchange.
Born in 1938 in Munich, he started studying Sanskrit philology and history of old Indian literature at the Jena University from 1958 on. During the sixties to eighties, he was engaged as lecturer and research assistant at Jena and Humboldt University (Berlin) and as editor of Kiepenheuer publishing Weimar and Leipzig.
In 1991, Mr Roland Beer founded his own publishing house ‘Lotos Verlag’ – entirely dedicated to Indian literature. Here, he brought out German versions of books from India and about India – innumerable Indian classics and eminent modern authors.
Roland Beer also supported Indo-German theatre co-productions, including the immensely fruitful cooperation between Fritz Bennewitz and Vijaya Mehta.
In 2000, he has been awarded the prestigious Gisela-Bonn Award.