Tag: lyric
Anton G. Leitner: Coping with grief through poems – Bavaria
That’s the thing with printed obituaries. Most people walk away without much appreciation unless they were prominent. Or they had a poet for a son. The latter applies to the…
Reiner Kunze, poet and dissident in the GDR, is 90 years old – culture
In one of the short prose pieces in Reiner Kunze’s book “The Wonderful Years”, a schoolgirl would put up with a visual impairment in order to be able to wear…
Wolf Wondratschek on his 80th birthday – Culture
He pursued the literarization of the world, simply because he wanted it that way: for the young genius Wolf Wondratschek on his 80th birthday. At 26, Wondratschek was already so…
Tips: Audio books for the summer – culture
The fictional town of Seldwyla is home to people like “Pankraz, the sulky”, Wenzel Strapinski, the “poor little tailor” from “Clothes Make the Man” or Viggi Störteler, businessman and “very…
Yevgeniy Breyger’s “Peace Without War”: Language fights itself free – culture
After February 2022, the poet Yevgeniy Breyger had to rediscover his language again. Encounter with someone who tries not to lose sight of beauty in the face of violence. How…
Poetry: the end of the fairy tale
The World Cup is over for the German national soccer team. A farewell poem. source site
Munich: Poetry reading “My three lyrical I’s” – Munich
Listening to three up-and-coming German-speaking poets from all over the world and looking at art at the same time – roughly speaking, that is the concept of the series “My…
Culture Festival in Seeon Monastery – Bavaria
For a long time, C. Bernd Sucher was the newspaper’s chief theater critic, then he switched to the other side of the cultural scene, wrote even more books than before…
Obituary for Christian Quadflieg: charmer with subtlety – media
For twenty years he has made himself extremely rare on television and instead of focusing on German evening series, he has focused on something completely different, namely German poetry –…
Salon Luitpold: varied cultural program in the coming weeks. – Munich
What does summer do with writing? This is just one of many questions that will be asked in the Cafe Luitpold salon in the coming weeks. On Sunday, July 2,…