Haus für Poesie

Lection & Talk

With the poets Milan Děžinský CZE and Steffen Popp DEU | Pavel Kolmačka CZE and Nadja Küchenmeister DEU | Pavel Novotný CZE and Léonce W. Lupette DEU/ARG | Jan Škrob CZE and Tom Bresemann DEU | Božena Správcová CZE and Birgit Kreipe DEU | Marie Šťastná CZE and Carl-Christian Elze DEU
Presenter: Jonáš Hájek CZE curator, poet

The Czech Republic is close. On a racing bike you can cover the 320 km between Berlin and Prague in around three days. Three days is also the length of the VERSschmuggel/reVERSible translation workshop, for which six Czech poets are coming together with six German-speaking poets during the poesiefestival berlin. VERSschmuggel/reVERSible is an artistic and communication adventure and a hub for cultural crossovers and poetic traditions. In pairs and supported by language mediators the poets translate each others’ texts into each others’ languages, working on the basis of gloss translations.

The poems resulting from this German-Czech collaboration will be read on this evening in a bilingual reading. They will also appear in an anthology in the Czech Republic (published by Protimluv) and in Germany (published by Das Wunderhorn) which will be launched at the 2019 Leipzig Book Fair, at which the Czech Republic will be the featured country.

With the able assistance of the language mediators Lena Dorn DEU | Kathrin Janka DEU | Mirko Kraetsch DEU | Martina Lisa DEU | Eva Marková CZE | Michaela Škultéty CZE

VERSschmuggel/reVERSible – Překladiště: Czech-German is sponsored by the German-Czech Future Fund, the Czech Literature Centre, Section of the Moravian State Library in Brno, the Goethe Institute Prague and the Czech Centre Berlin and is taking place in co-operation with the Czech Writers’ Association (Asociacespisovatelů) and with the kind assistance of the House of History/Museum in the Culture Brewery Foundation

Location:
Akademie der Künste

Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin

Entrance fee:
10/7 €

Tickets online

13/8 € Kombiticket inkl. Poesiegespräch:

https://frontoffice.paylogic.nl/?event_id=123113&point_of_sale_id=9758