Manuel Alegre Manuel Alegre (b. 1936 in Coimbra, Portugal) became an opponent of the Salazar regime while he was a law student. He was arrested during his military service for taking part in a coup. After a ten-year exile in Algeria and Paris, he returned to Portugal in 1974 at the beginning of the Carnation Revolution. He has been a Member of Parliament for the Portuguese Socialist Party and is currently the Vice-President of the Parliament. In his work, Alegre deals with the experience of loss of homeland a ... more
Ricardo Aleixo Ricardo Aleixo (born in 1960 in Belo Horizonte) is a decidedly interdisciplinary artist. He is a poet, essayist, editor, visual artist, sound designer, singer, composer and performer. He co-founded and curates the FAN (Festival de Arte Negra), the major art and culture festival of the African Diaspora in Brazil.His poetry shows a concern with formal research and multi-media experimentation nd approaches the Concrete Poetry of Augusto de Campos. Ricardo Aleixo has been awarded many prizes includi ... more
Eugenijus Ališanka Eugenijus Ališanka (born in Barnaul, Russia in 1960) is a poet, translator and essayist. Since he was 2 he has lived in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, where he studied Mathematics and was for many years a researcher in the Institute for Culture and Art. From 1995 to 2002 he was the managing director of the international Poetry Spring poetry festival and director of the international programme of the Lithuanian writers’ association. Eugenijus Ališanka is a member of the Lithuanian PEN Club and s ... more Eugenijus Ališanka (c) Ricardas Ileika
Ghayath Almadhoun Ghayath Almadhoun (born in Damascus in 1979) is a Palestinian poet and film maker. He was born in a Palestinian refugee camp and studied Arabic Literature at the University of Damascus. He has published three volumes of verse in Arabic, the most recent of which was published in Beirut in 2014. In 2008 Almadhoun emigrated to Sweden where he now lives and works. He has collaborated with Swedish poet Marie Silkeberg on two books of poetry, most recently Till Damaskus. They have also produced severa ... more Ghayath Almadhoun (c) Cato Lein
Ghayath Almadhoun Ghayath Almadhoun (born in Damascus in 1979) is a Palestinian poet and film maker. He was born in a Palestinian refugee camp and studied Arabic Literature at the University of Damascus. He has published three volumes of verse in Arabic, the most recent of which was published in Beirut in 2014. In 2008 Almadhoun emigrated to Sweden where he now lives and works. He has collaborated with Swedish poet Marie Silkeberg on two books of poetry, most recently Till Damaskus. They have also produced severa ... more Ghayath Almadhoun c_Cato Lein
Andreas Altmann (de) Andreas Altmann (1963, Hainichen/Sachsen) lebt in Berlin. Er hat u.a. als Schriftsetzer, Orchesterwart sowie als Betreuer bei geistig behinderten Menschen gearbeitet. Andreas Altmann hat zum jetzigen Zeitpunkt fünf Gedichtbände veröffentlicht. Obschon die Gedichte geographisch verortbar sind, lassen sie sich dennoch nicht biographisch, historisch oder sozial zuordnen. Es herrscht eine Doppeldeutigkeit der syntaktischen Bezüge, eine Vermischung von Innen und Außen, von Abstraktem und Konkret ... more
Andreas Altmann Andreas Altmann (born in 1963 in Hainichen) is a poet living in Berlin. To date he has publish ten books of poetry, most recently Die lichten Lieder der Bäume liegen im Gras und scheinen nur so (2014) and Art der Betrachtung (2012) both from poetenladen Verlag. In 2016 a selection of his poems was published in the Poesiealbum series by Märkischer Verlag. Hans-Dieter Schütt wrote in Neues Deutschland of the collection that his texts seek out viewpoints on water, on land and below changing skies, ... more
Mehmet Altun For Mehmet Altun (born 1977, Kars, Turkey) “the East” is the land of divine creation. It is a region whose historical and traditional roots run deep, an archive that forms a unity out of beliefs and civilisation. He writes above all about the lives of the people in East Anatolia. Altun writes in Kurdish and Turkish. In 2005 Altun founded the literary magazine “Üç Nokta” (Three Points) with two friends, and was for a while its chief editor. His columns and articles on current issues were publish ... more
Amewu Born in Berlin in 1983, Amewu experimented even while he was at school with the possibilities of freestyle rap. His texts are multi-layered and honest, aggressive and yet well thought through. They penetrate the listener not only because of the great speed with which der Amewu raps them, but also because of their depth and the melancholy that they reveal. His music has taken him to such places as Bangladesh, Mozambique, Columbia and the Philippines. He also appears as a DJ and leads workshops an ... more
Michael Ammann Michael Ammann (b. 1967 Weiden) is a sound and improvisation artist whose work involves spatial sound, real time, interaction and coincidence. Before studying sound art with Professor Eller at the Hanover University of Applied Arts, Ammann had already, in 1997, founded the inter-disciplinary collective To:en, in which artists, writers, dancers and musicians are involved within the principle “acoustic stimuli provoke uncontrollable mental projections”. He continued his studies in the field of art ... more Michael Ammann © privat
Fortner Anderson Fortner Anderson (*USA), who has been living in Montreal since 1976, is an experimental poet and in fact one of the first spoken word poets. For many years, he has been producing a television series about performing poetry. Anderson works regularly with music and has already produced several poetry CDs with musicians. He is known for his strong stage presence and performance as well as his a cappella readings. Anderson was co-founder of the wiredonwords.com label and he hosts a radio show about ... more
Jagna Anderson (de) Jagna Anderson (geb. 1969 in Lublin, Polen) lebt und arbeitet als multidisziplinäre Künstlerin und promovierte Kunsthistorikerin und Kuratorin in Berlin. Ihre Arbeit bewegt sich zwischen vokaler Performancekunst, choreographischer Inszenierung, Rauminstallation und performativer Aneignung urbaner Räume. Ihr Interesse gilt dem dynamischen Verhältnis von Struktur und Handeln, wodurch Konditionierungen, verinnerlichte Machtgefüge und vordergründige Identifikationen hinterfragt werden; die Frag ... more Jagna Anderson (c) Roberto Duarte