Performance, Reading
Poets’ Corner becomes Poets’ Home and fills computer screens with poems: 32 Berlin poets and performers present short videos from their Poets’ Homes.
Spandau | In co-operation with the Kulturamt and the Zitadelle Spandau
with Ron Winkler (Germany), Tim Holland, Georg Leß, Aurélie Maurin, Dilek Mayatürk (Turkey), Thien Tran, Judith Zander
Performance, Reading
Poets’ Corner becomes Poets’ Home and fills computer screens with poems: 32 Berlin poets and performers present short videos from their Poets’ Homes.
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg | In co-operation with the Pablo Neruda Bibliothek
with Eva Brunner, Andreas Bülhoff, Yıldız Çakar, Eugene Ostashevsky, Hannah Schraven
Performance, Reading
Poets’ Corner becomes Poets’ Home and fills computer screens with poems: 32 Berlin poets and performers present short videos from their Poets’ Homes.
Mitte | In co-operation with the Instituto Cervantes
with Tomás Cohen, Sandra Rosas, Pablo Jofré
Performance, Reading
Poets’ Corner becomes Poets’ Home and fills computer screens with poems: 32 Berlin poets and performers present short videos from their Poets’ Homes.
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf | In co-operation with the Kulturamt und Schoeler.Berlin
with Sonja vom Brocke, Maru Mushtrieva, Mathias Traxler, Maya Kuperman, Dean Ruddock, Anja Engst
Performance, Reading
Poets’ Corner becomes Poets’ Home and fills computer screens with poems: 32 Berlin poets and performers present short videos from their Poets’ Homes.
Treptow-Köpenick | In co-operation with the Kulturamt and NOVILLA
with Zafer Şenocak, Johannes Jansen, Uljana Wolf, Jumoke Adeyanju, Christian Hawkey
Performance, Reading
Poets’ Corner becomes Poets’ Home and fills computer screens with poems: 32 Berlin poets and performers present short videos from their Poets’ Homes.
Pankow | In co-operation with the Kulturamt and Brotfabrik
Performance, Reading
Poets’ Corner becomes Poets’ Home and fills computer screens with poems: 32 Berlin poets and performers present short videos from their Poets’ Homes.
Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg | In co-operation with KUIR
Poetische Bildung
“look, here comes the poison queen! her children carry / swarms of gnats in their hearts, how does she do that? that is art!”
Get people excited about poetry! But how? This further training webinar provides the opportunity to familiarise yourself with the latest procedures for analysing and disseminating contemporary poetry. This year the focus is on the work of poet Birgit Kreipe.
Greeting by Prof. Monika Grütters MdB, Staatsministerin für Kultur und Medien
Greeting by Klaus Lederer, Senator für Kultur und Europa.
Reading, Translation
The polyvocal opening of the poesiefestival berlin. Poets from all parts of the world read, sing and perform in seven different native languages.
with Mircea Cărtărescu (Romania), Michael Donhauser (Liechtenstein), Athena Farrokhzad (Iran), Yanko González Cangas (Chile), Luljeta Lleshanaku (Albania), Ariana Reines (United States), Katharina Schultens (Germany), Yi Won (South Korea), Koleka Putuma (South Africa), Tracy September (South Africa), Christian Kesten (Germany)
Reading
The readings in the Buchengarten are a fixed feature of the poesiefestival berlin. In the virtual Buchengarten (“Beech Garden”) they will be broadcast as video readings with poems, music, translations and performances spread over the whole festival.
with Hannes Bajohr, Carla Cerda, Donna Stonecipher, Christian Formoso
Interview, Reading, Translation
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world” (Wittgenstein). A conversation about borders and limits, literature and politics and poets as activists.
with Nada Al Khawwam (Iraq), Manal Al-Sheikh (Iraq), Faraj Bayrakdar (Syria), Alice Veil (Germany)
Canada
Greeting by H.E. Stéphane Dion, Ambassador to Germany and Special Envoy to the European Union and Europe.
Canada
Greeting by Elisa Valentin, Delegate General of Québec in Germany.
Canada, Reading, Translation
A trilingual reading is the end product of this year’s VERSschmuggel/reVERSible translation project featuring poetry from Canada and Québec. In virtual space, six German-speaking poets meet six Canadian poets writing in French and six writing in English.
with Martine Audet (Canada), Monique Deland (Canada), Adam Dickinson (Canada), Daniel Falb (Germany), Armand Garnet Ruffo (Canada), François Guerrette (Canada), Nancy Hünger (Germany), Aisha Sasha John (Canada), Maren Kames (Germany), Natasha Kanapé Fontaine (Canada), Canisia Lubrin (Canada), Tristan Malavoy (Canada), Pierre Nepveu (Canada), Kerstin Preiwuß (Germany), Sandra Ridley (Canada), Lisa Robertson (Canada), Levin Westermann (Germany), Ron Winkler (Germany)
Poetische Bildung
for ages 18–99 | 15 min.
in English and German
Setting poems to sounds. Tutorial for music and poetry, taught by musician and songwriter Josepha Conrad.
Poetische Bildung, Reading
Project organisers: Karla Montasser, Anja Silovšek (assistant)
with Leander Beil (Germany), Clara Heinrich (Germany), Lisa James (Germany), Şafak Sarıçiçek (Turkey), Maë Schwinghammer (Austria), Lilith Tiefenbacher (Germany), Lea Wahode (Germany), Carlo Spiller (Germany), Laura Kunz (Austria), Johanna Hühn (Germany), Elena Kaufmann (Germany), Katia Sophia Ditzler (Germany), Patty Nash (Germany), Ole Schmitter (Germany), Sarah Borowik-Frank (Germany), Anja Silovšek (Slovenia), Sophie Stroux (Germany)
Poetische Bildung
Video Tutorial | for ages 18–99| 12 min.
in English and German
Breath. Movement. Sound. Language. Tutorial for poetry as whole body experience. With text extracts by Anne Carson, taught by poet and physical poetry teacher Shannon Sullivan.
Interview, Reading
How are public discourses and memories changing in the course of digitalisation? What role does poetry play between historically sensitive exploration of language and a digital poetry operating with algorithms?
Canada, Reading, Translation
13 short and mini-talks, poetological and philosophical forays taking us into the worlds of Antiquity and Carson’s own childhood. The Lecture will be given in English, with a German translation by Anja Utler available.
Canada
Hans Jürgen Balmes and Anja Utler on Anne Carson, the undertow of her voice, the negative space of her poems, the modular invention of a world in verse, narrative, essay and drama and about her Berlin Poetry Lecture.
Reading
The readings in the Buchengarten are a fixed feature of the poesiefestival berlin. In the virtual Buchengarten (“Beech Garden”) they will be broadcast as video readings with poems, music, translations and performances spread over the whole festival.
LUNA LUNA im JUNIVERS: Marina Agathangelidou and Kamilla Raffo translate Maren Kames, Birgit Kreipe and Monika Rinck read translations of Gwendolyn Margaret MacEwen, Marko Pogačar, Ali Abdollahi.
with Maren Kames (Germany), Birgit Kreipe (Germany), Marina Agathangelidou, Kamilla Raffo, Monika Rinck
Music, Performance, Reading, Translation
Europe is colourful, Europe is black, Europe is Jazz! The young voices of the black diaspora spread a musical and poetical sound carpet out across Europe.
with Simone Atangana Bekono (Netherlands), Kayo Chingonyi (United Kingdom), Patrick Dunst (Austria), Raquel Lima (Portugal), Steve Mekoudja (Germany), Fiston Mwanza Mujila (Austria), Grilli Pollheimer (Austria)
Reading
A short film about the myth of the Perseus statue in Florence, made in 1554, the sonnets written for it at the time and their first translation into German.
with Asmus Trautsch (Germany), Daniel Bayerstorfer (Germany), Victoria Lorini (Italy), Theresia Prammer (Austria), Moritz Rauchhaus (Germany), Tobias Roth (Germany), Andrea Schmidt (Germany)
Reading
The readings in the Buchengarten are a fixed feature of the poesiefestival berlin. In the virtual Buchengarten (“Beech Garden”) they will be broadcast as video readings with poems, music, translations and performances spread over the whole festival.
Poetische Bildung
Video Workshop | for ages 18–99
e-teaching with video workshop, taught by poet and poetry educator Crauss
with Crauss (Germany)
Performance, Reading
The works being presented are threefold born-digital – they are generated by and with the machine. They explore the possibilities of language, poetry and communication in the digital age. And they draw attention to the problems, be it with an explanatory gesture or by way of activism, inherent in the social, political and social accompanying phenomena of the digital age.
with Kathrin Passig (Germany), Álvaro Seiça (Portugal), Nick Thurston (United Kingdom)
Music, Performance
Caroline Bergvall is a politically thinking and acting poet in the emphatic sense. This is demonstrated in her new multi-lingual work Sonic Atlas, which reacts to the refugee crisis and modern extremism.
Reading
The readings in the Buchengarten are a fixed feature of the poesiefestival berlin. In the virtual Buchengarten (“Beech Garden”) they will be broadcast as video readings with poems, music, translations and performances spread over the whole festival.
Interview, Reading
Can poetry be used to fight for good? Under what circumstances can activism succeed and contribute to better coexistence?
with Kadhem Khanjar (Iraq), Bernadette La Hengst (Germany), Franck Leibovici (France), Maud Vanhauwaert (Belgium)
Reading, Translation
“superpowerpoetry” is the combined power of Spoken Word heroes for using voices and bodies to give words a new dynamic beyond the printed page.
with Dean Bowen (Netherlands), Julian Heun (Germany), Yunus (Germany), Deborah Emmanuel (Singapore)
Reading
The readings in the Buchengarten are a fixed feature of the poesiefestival berlin. In the virtual Buchengarten (“Beech Garden”) they will be broadcast as video readings with poems, music, translations and performances spread over the whole festival.
with Alexandru Bulucz, Sabine Hassinger, Armin Steigenberger
Interview, Reading
What is the social power of poetry? Can poetry be an instrument for mobilising people? How does a political topic affect and influence the language of poetry and how can poetry influence politics?
After the screening, the poets will answer your questions in a live zoom stream on poesiefestival berlin’s Facebook page.
with Dean Bowen (Netherlands), Frank Keizer (Netherlands), Lea Schneider (Germany), John Kinsella (Australia)
Music, Reading
Opposites attract: the various different styles, languages and forms of poetry and jazz meet this evening to take us on a fascinating journey.
with Artur Becker (Poland), Ulrich Beckerhoff (Germany), Maria Pia de Vito (Italy), Tord Gustavsen (Norway), Michele Rabbia (Italy), Simin Tander (Germany), Natalio Mangalavite (Argentina), Julian Fischer (Germany)