February offers numerous moving and sometimes highly political readings and discussions in the Literaturhaus, the Lyrik Kabinett and many other places. The spectrum ranges from the poet Selma Merbaum to the essayist Max Czollek, from the politician Marina Weisband to the activist Lea Bonasera.
“Look, life is so colorful,” once wrote Selma Merbaum, and: “Why do the guns roar? Why does life die for glittering crowns?” What she couldn’t believe killed her: the Jewish author from Czernowitz died in 1942 as an 18-year-old Nazi forced laborer in road construction. Once you have heard Nora Gomringer perform her poems, you will never forget the name again, and so we strongly recommend that you quickly reserve a place for February 5th Poetry Cabinet to reserve. Merbaum would have been 100 years old that day.