Tag: poetry
Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu is awarded the Georg Elser Prize – Munich
How closely emotions are connected was demonstrated at the Georg Elser Prize award ceremony. The Eritrean writer Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu was honored for her commitment against undemocratic structures. The city…
Ingo Schulze new President of the Academy for Language and Poetry – Culture
The German Academy for Language and Poetry elected a new executive board at its autumn meeting. With Ingo Schulze, a writer becomes president of the most important German institution for…
The new artists’ house “Villa Malkowski” in Brannenburg – Bavaria
Rainer Malkowski and his wife bequeathed their impressive house to the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in addition to foundation money for literary prizes. What the academy plans to do…
Job column: 2100 euros gross for the self-employed poetry slammer and author
Selina, 30, stands on stages with self-written lyrics. She explains why poetry slam doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with poems and talks about her most absurd performances. source site
Obituary: Poet Margret Hölle is dead – Bavaria
Years ago, a woman from Berlin announced after a reading by the writer Margret Hölle: “You know, I didn’t understand a word, but I felt a lot.” The audience did…
Obituary for Louise Glück: Comfortingly bleak – culture
Writing is dangerous, it costs some people their lives. Louise Glück, who endured years of anorexia and therapy, a domineering mother, two marriages including divorce, a few affairs and even…
Slovenian poetry: anthology “My Neighbor on the Cloud”. – Culture
In the first poem of this volume, the speaker develops a small portrait of the city in which he lives. We are in Ljubljana, probably in the 1960s. The man…
Marion Poschmann’s novel “Choir of the Erinyes”: Continuation of the marital dispute. – Culture
There are supposed to be the kind of marital disputes that one of the partners only deals with themselves. In a kind of internal dialogue that quickly escalates. When something…
Ukrainian diary: Front deployment instead of poetry reading
The young poet Yan was actually supposed to travel to Germany, but then he gets drafted while going to the authorities. source site
"To sing!" Exhibition in Marbach: Karaoke with Orpheus
The German Literature Archive owns thousands of manuscripts – including the original “Loreley”. To be seen in an unusual exhibition. source site