“Peace without War” is the name of the volume of poems with which Yevgeniy Breyger recently attracted attention. The poet, born in Kharkiv in 1989, who emigrated to Germany with his family at the age of ten and recently moved to Vienna, has processed the history of his Jewish family in it. In view of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, he had to find a new attitude and a new language, as he told the SZ.
And so it is only logical that in a “Munich Speech on Poetry” he sees the need “to not just be a mirror of society, an enchanted box, whistle, rubber glove for single use and get rid of it.” In his letter, in his speech for the Poetry Cabinet, Breyger sets out to “understand the composition of the world.” And realizes: “All art is resistance, all poetry is political.”
Yevgeniy Breyger: Munich speech on poetry, Tuesday, December 5th, 7 p.m., Lyrik Kabinett, Amalienstr. 83, lyrik-kabinett.de