Pochhammer Memorial Lecture 2018

 

Rabindranath Tagore’s Love for God and the World – and German Romanticism

Speaker: Dr. Martin Kämpchen, Tagore scholar, translator and author

 

Rabindranath Tagore attempted a unique feat in his poetry; he praised and enjoyed the good things of the world like the beauty of nature, the love between man and woman, the love among family members and in society at large. At the same time, he nourished a deep love of Divinity calling It by different names. He combined these two and made it a life-long project not to renounce one for the other, but to celebrate God and the World together. The German reception of Tagore reflects the German Romantic Tradition in literature and the arts which had a similar agenda

 

Followed by 

Rabindra Sangeet

Presented by Debashish and Rohini Raychaudhuri, the only “Father-Daughter Duo of Bengali Music”

 

(Collaboration: Federation of Indo-German Societies in India; and Hanns-Seidel Stiftung)