[Translate to English:] Édith Azam Édith Azam (born 1973) lives and works in Marseilles. She organises writing workshops in schools to make schoolchildren aware of and help tham appreciate contemporary poetry. She frequently combines her own poetry with other art forms such as music and dance. Last published Cher petit toi, cher petit vous, Éditions du soir au matin, 2010Du pop corn dans la tête, L’atelier de l’agneau, 2010Soleil-œil crepu, Dernier télégramme, 2011 ... more
Miguel Azguime Miguel Azguime (*1960, Portugal) is a composer, poet and percussionist. In 1985, he founded the Miso Ensemble (a duo of flute and percussion), one of the most highly regarded Portuguese ensembles for contemporary music. Azguime has won many awards for his compositions and interpretations. He composes his works for various formations (instrumental and/or vocal, also using electronic); he has written electro-acoustic works and sound poems in addition to music for exhibitions and sound installation ... more
Efe Paul Azino Efe Paul Azino (born in Lagos in 1979), one of Nigeria’s best-known performance artists, is the founder and director of the Lagos International Poetry Festival, director of the annual Book and Arts Fair in Lagos and director of the Lagos Black Heritage Festival. He has also produced Nigeria’s first Spoken Word theatre play, Finding Home. He has performed at many festivals, including the Johannesburg Arts Alive Festival, the Ake Book and Arts Festival, the Lagos Book and Arts Festival, the Lights ... more Efe Paul Azino
Ken Babstock Ken Babstock (born 1970 in Newfoundland, Canada) was not yet forty years old when he was named one of Canada’s ten best living English-speaking poets in 2009. His latest collection, from which he will be reading for Weltklang, has brought him his second nomination for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the world’s most valuable prize for poetry.Nominating him for the 2007 Griffin Prize, the judges wrote, “Here we find a poet who can do almost anything, both formally and in his exploration of such subject ... more
Hannes Bajohr Hannes Bajohr, (b. 1984 in Berlin) studied Philosophy, German Literature and Modern History at Berlin’s Humboldt University. He gained his PhD from Columbia University, New York, with a thesis on Hans Blumenberg’s Theory of Language. Bajohr writes prose, essays and digital poetry. His literary publications have mainly included experiments with digital poetry and conceptual writing. In 2015 his novel Durchschnitt (Mean) was published, for which, as the publisher’s announcement describes, the body ... more Hannes Bajohr © privat
Hinemoana Baker Hinemoana Baker (born in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1968) has Maori and Pakeha parents and is a singer-songwriter and poet between Spoken Word and classical form. In her collections of poems kōiwikōiwi | bonebone and waha | mouth she artfully and blatantly mixes autobiography with text fragments from dictionaries and medical brochures. Baker writes about internal family language games with absent fathers, about the black and white rings around the eyes of a curlew, the rings in the skulls of ... more Hinemoana Baker (c) Leonardo Carta
Nanni Balestrini Nanni Balestrini (*1935, Milan, Italy) lives in Paris and Rome. He was one of the co-founders of Neoavanguardia, an influential, avant-garde literary movement in Italy in the 1950s and 60s. The linguistic experiments of the authors of this group form part of the literary tradition of T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound in both form and content. Balestrini was the editor of the journal “Il Verri” and co-director of “Alfabeta”. He worked for the Feltrinelli publishing house in Milan from 1962–1972. He was a ... more
Teresa Balté Teresa Balté (born 1942, Portugal) studied German, English and Music (piano and organ) in Lisbon, Hamburg and Chicago. She is a writer and translator and teaches translation. Her translations into Portuguese include works by Georg Büchner, Bert Brecht and Erich Fried. She is also a music critic for various Portuguese journals. Balté's poems derive from her experiences in life, shedding a sober, psychoanalytical light on them. Several of her works have dealt with her life and work together with h ... more
Mark Barden Mark Barden (born 1980 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA) has lived and worked as a composer in Europe since 2004. He moved to Europe after completing his bachelor’s degree in composition, studying with Lewis Nielson and Randolph Coleman, and piano, studying with Monique Duphil, and took a masters’ degree at the Freiburg Music Academy. He has also taken additional private lessons and participated in master classes with Brian Ferneyhough, Helmut Lachenmann, Mark Andre and others. His current projects inclu ... more
Vanessa Barkowski Vanessa Barkowski is a freelance singer living in Berlin. She studied in Detmold, Hamburg and Berlin, including with Gerhild Romberger and Uta Trekel-Burckhardt. Master classes with Kurt Moll, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Ingeborg Danz completed her training. The mezzo-soprano is a regular guest singer at the Komische Oper Berlin, the Hamburg State Opera and the Opéra Bastille in Paris. Barkowski was awarded the Youth Promotion Prize of the City of Berlin in 2005. The young singer has also made ... more
Linda Maria Baros Linda Maria Baros (born 1981 in Bucharest, Romania) has lived in Paris for many years. This year she gained her doctorate in literature from the Sorbonne, and she also works as a translator. Baros is the initiator and organiser of the Romanian literature festival Le Printemps des Poètes. She is also the editor of , a literary journal published in Bucharest.To date she has published three poetry collections in France and has been able to assert her lyrical voice with great confidence. She fearles ... more
Michael Barthel Michael Barthel (b. 1977) grew up in East Berlin and has lived in Leipzig since 2002. Involved with electro-acoustic and experimental music from 1994. Since 2008 his own voice has been his only instrument for concerts and recordings. In 2018 his poetry book Prunk is being published by Vexer Verlag, St. Gallen & Berlin, and presents his work for the first time in its written and graphic form. www.recordingsforthesummer.de/barthel ... more Michael Barthel © Gilles Berquet