Tag: poetry
Autumn conference of the Academy for Language and Poetry – Culture
That virtue is only the heel under the shoes of the virtuous is an eternally valid image that Georg Büchner brought into the world with his revolutionary drama “Danton’s Death”.…
Ronya Othmann’s volume of poems “die Verbrechen”. Review. – Culture
Anyone reading Ronya Othmann’s first volume of poetry is roaming through a barren area. A landscape beyond set boundaries, somewhere between geography and history, myth and language. A “tired, tired…
Georges Brassens on his 100th birthday – culture
A mover with a dark mustache and anxious eyes wandering through the audience: Georges Brassens was born 100 years ago, the archetype of all chansonniers and songwriters. Why his erotic…
Martina Hefter’s poems in “Going into the woods …”. Review. – Culture
Such an ambitious and at the same time light-footed volume of poetry has not existed for a long time. Ambitious because “Going into the woods, stealing wood for a bed”…
700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death – Culture
On the night of September 13-14, 1321, the Italian poet and philosopher Dante Alighieri died in Ravenna. It was the end of a life in exile. After political power struggles…
“” Dune “is pure poetry that touches me deep in my soul” estimates Denis Villeneuve
Dune, it is first of all a monument of science fiction literature signed Frank Herbert (1943-2013). Denis Villeneuve dreamed for several decades of retracing the fate of Paul Atreides (played…
Nuremberg poetry: an interview with Fitzgerald Kusz – Bavaria
Fitzgerald Kusz, the poet of the Franks, presented a lyrical late masterpiece: “Sunnablumma”. A conversation about the birth of the poet out of angry speech, the primacy of poetry that…
Franconian poetry – Semmä ned alle Sunnäblummä? – Bavaria
Fitzgerald Kusz, the poet of the Franks, presented a lyrical late masterpiece: “Sunnablumma”. A conversation about the birth of the poet out of angry speech, the primacy of poetry that…
The John Clare anthology “A Language That Is Ever Green”. Review. – Culture
When John Clare wrote the poem “I am” (“I am”), he was 54 years old and had been admitted to a “lunatic asylum” for the second time, an institution that…
Mobile stage in Markt Schwaben – music, poetry and magic in the fresh air – Ebersberg
The culture is alive! The theater association Markt Schwaben invites you to nine events on the last two weekends in July. Ferdinand Maurer, who has been a director and author…