Kiều Lesen

Kiều Lesen – Reading Kiều · Session 1 · 12 September 2026 · parallelgesellschaft × Galerie Nord What can a poem from the early 19th century tell us today? That’s the question behind Kiều Lesen – Reading Kiều, and the first evening approached it through a single image: hoa trôi, the drifting flower. We met…

We wanted to make time to read Truyện Kiều together – in Vietnamese, German, and English, with people who know the poem and people discovering it. A reading group seemed a good place to start. The idea is simple: meet, read selected passages aloud in Vietnamese, German, and English, and talk about them. We’re curious…