Samuel Beckett meets Peter Tuma: Finissage »La Fin« in Göttingen

Samuel Beckett meets Peter Tuma: A finissage between language, drawing, and silence

With »La Fin«, the ImFlurGalerie in Göttingen invites you to a literary-artistic evening where Samuel Beckett's narrative meets the drawings of Peter Tuma. The finissage on September 11, 2026, begins at 18:00 and leads the audience into that poetic zone where reduction, fragment, and visual precision form an intense unity.

Beckett in the resonance space of drawing

Samuel Beckett is among the great stylists of modernity. His laconic, often radically condensed language has shaped 20th-century literature like few other voices. In »La Fin«, this linguistic art encounters a visual translation that does not illustrate the existential core of the text but continues to think it. Peter Tuma's drawings open the space for stillness, movement, and the fragile resonance of meaning.

An exhibition format with literary depth

The exhibition shows how powerful a reading can be in an extended sense: not just as a lecture, but as a cultural event between text, image, and atmosphere. The accompanying program addresses the fragmentary nature of Beckett's writing and raises questions about identity, loneliness, language barriers, and the poetic weight of the unspoken. It is precisely in this that the special literary quality of this evening lies.

The reading atmosphere in the ImFlurGalerie

The ImFlurGalerie at Geiststraße 11 is not a large house but a focused place for art and encounter. This spatial proximity enhances the literary experience: one steps in, stays still, looks, reads, listens, and feels how the encounter between Beckett and Tuma transforms into a quiet, intense form. However, access is not barrier-free, which should be considered in the planning.

Why this evening appeals to literature lovers

»La Fin« is aimed at people who do not just consume literature but want to interpret, feel, and discuss it. The combination of exhibition, narrative, and artist talk creates an encounter with the present of classical modernity. Those who appreciate Beckett will find here not a museal repetition, but a contemporary approach to his radical linguistic world.

Conclusion: This finissage promises a quiet, intellectually dense evening full of linguistic tension and visual elegance. Those who want to see Beckett anew and experience Peter Tuma's visual language in dialogue with literature should visit »La Fin« live in Göttingen.

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Sources:

• kulturis.online – La Fin
• Göttinger Verlag der Kunst – Events
• Göttinger Verlag der Kunst – About us
• Samuel Beckett Society – Biography
• NobelPrize.org – Samuel Beckett