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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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.

The polyvocal opening of the poesiefestival berlin. Poets from all parts of the world read, sing and perform in seven different native languages.

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.

“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.

Greeting by H.E. Stéphane Dion, Ambassador to Germany and Special Envoy to the European Union and Europe.

Greeting by Elisa Valentin, Delegate General of Québec in Germany.

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.

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.

Project organisers: Karla Montasser, Anja Silovšek (assistant)

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Video Workshop | for ages 18–99

e-teaching with video workshop, taught by poet and poetry educator Crauss

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.

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.

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.

Can poetry be used to fight for good? Under what circumstances can activism succeed and contribute to better coexistence?

“superpowerpoetry” is the combined power of Spoken Word heroes for using voices and bodies to give words a new dynamic beyond the printed page.

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.

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.

Opposites attract: the various different styles, languages and forms of poetry and jazz meet this evening to take us on a fascinating journey.