Thomas Medicus is a Berlin author and journalist who has done research on the subject of the “family novel” and the ways history is reflected in such works. At this event, he will read – in English – from his recent book In den Augen meines Großvaters (In My Grandfather’s Eyes), a geographical and historical journey in the search for his grandfather, the Wehrmacht general Wilhelm Crisolli, who was killed by partisans in Italy in 1944.

Dr. Thomas Medicus is an author, journalist and historian is in Toronto as the Second Munk-Goethe Writer-in-Residence. Born in 1953, he studied German, Political Science and Art History in Marburg/Lahn, finishing his PhD dissertation in 1982. He has worked as a freelance journalist and editor for several German newspapers, was a guest researcher at Hamburg’s “Institut für Sozialforschung” and its department “The Society in the Federal Republic of Germany” in 2001 and 2006 and is now a Berlin-based freelance arts editor based for the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

Time: 12:30 – 2:00 pm
Location: 230 York Lanes