Elias Bierdel (de) Elias Bierdel (*1960, Berlin) studierte Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften. Danach war er als Journalist tätig bei der Westdeutschen Allgemeinen Zeitung und der Westfälischen Rundschau, dann in verschiedenen öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten.Als ARD-Korrespondent für Südosteuropa berichtete er aus den Kriegsgebieten auf dem Balkan.2002 wurde Elias Bierdel in Afghanistan Projektmitarbeiter für die Hilfsorganisation „Cap Anamur“.Nach der Rettung von 37 Schiffbrüchigen im Mittel ... more
Sherwin Bitsui Currently living in Tucson, Arizona, Sherwin Bitsui (b. 1975) is originally from White Cone, part of the Navajo reservation in Arizona. He belongs to the Todich’ii’nii clan. Bitusi recently published his second volume of poetry with the long poem “Flood Song”. The sharp, lively pictures that Bitsui paints in his poetry are reminiscent of surrealist schools of thought, above all Latin American surrealism. He combines images of the wide landscapes of southwest USA with Navajo mythology, these myth ... more
Iva Bittová Iva Bittová (born 1958 in Bruntál, Czech Republic) is among many other things a writer, singer, actor and violinist. Her stage appearances are a whirling trip taking in jazz, folk, New Music and sound poetry. Bittová combines her instrumental and vocal art with her own texts an such different sources as Moravian folk music and Gertrude Stein’s complex work. Coming from a musical family, Bittová took ballet and violin lessons from an early age. She later went on to study acting, singing, violin ... more
Yugen Blakrok Since the release of her debut album, but especially since Anima Mysterium (I.O.T Records 2019), Yugen Blakrok (born in 1984 in the Eastern Cape Province) has been regarded as South Africa’s queen of underground rap. She herself describes her work as “alternative hip hop” which combines the “darker and more lyrical sides” of the genre. Her lyrics and Spoken Word texts are futuristic, bulging, virtuoso and complex. They are full of dense metaphors and old knowledge. Yugen Blakrok grew up on a fa ... more Yugen Blakrok © Christopher Terhart
Ana Blandiana The first collection of poems by Ana Blandiana (born in Timișoara, Romania in 1942) was published in 1964. Until the Romanian revolution of 1989 she was a civil rights activist and spoke out clearly in her work and in interviews against the social evils of the Ceauşescu regime, which earned her a publication ban. Today she heads the Sighet Memorial, an institute for coming to terms with the legacy of Romania’s Communist past, and is chairwoman of the Romanian PEN Club. Her poems, however, are fa ... more Ana Blandiana
Wojtek Blecharz (de) Wojtek Blecharz (geb. 1981 in Polen), Komponist, studierte bis 2006 an der Frederic Chopin Musik Akademie in Warschau, 2015 promovierte er in Komposition an der Universität von Kalifornien San Diego. Seit 2012 kuratiert er das Instalakcje Musikfestival am Novy Theater in Warschau, wo er „Nicht-Konzert-Musik“ präsentiert, nämlich Soundinstallationen, Performanceinstallationen, Soundskulpturen, Musikvideos, Musiktheater u.a.. Blecharz entwickelte 2013 seine Opern-Installation Transcryptum als ... more Wojtek Blecharz (c) Jacek Poremba
Nico Bleutge Nico Bleutge (born in Munich in 1972) is a poet, essayist and literary critic. He studied Modern German Literature, General Rhetorics and Philosophy in Tubingen and teaches at the Literature and Theatre Studio at the University of Tübingen and at the Bavarian Writing Academy. In Nico Bleutge’s poems landscape is a terrain of memory which he explores with eyes, ears and fingertips, dissolves into its material elements and as it were reconstitutes in a complex sound fabric of language. He has rece ... more Nico Bleutge
Nico Bleutge Nico Bleutge (b.1972 in Munich) gained his degree in Modern German Literature, General Rhetoric and Philosophy in Tübingen. Bleutge writes highly complex nature poetry that is in tune with the times. He became especially well-known for his strongly rhythmic and highly musical language, his sensitivity to all kinds of natural phenomenon and his ability to express sounds in language, as well as a great closeness to his subjects. His language casts an “eye that wants to be similar to things”. Bleut ... more Nico Bleutge © gezett
Han Bo Han Bo, born in 1973, works as editor of a magazine in Shanghai and is counted as one of the best young poets in China. He has published several collections of verse and edited an anthology of contemporary Chinese poetry. His poetry is marked by a sober and innovative language which counters the strongly sentimental tradition in China and at the same time builds bridges between classical Chinese verse and the present. His long stream-of-consciousness poems draw readers in like a camera journey a ... more Han Bo (c) privat
Hartmut Bobzin Hartmut Bobzin (born 1946) studied Evangelical Theology, Religious Studies, Indology, Semitic Studies and Arabic Studies. He teaches Semitic Philology and Islamic Studies at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and has for many years been concerned with the printing and interpretation history of the Koran in Europe and with relations between Islam and Christianity in the past and present. Publications:Der Koran. New translation by Hartmut Bobzin, Munich 2010Der Koran: Eine Einführung, München 199 ... more
Paul Bogaert Paul Bogaert, born in 1968, makes the unpoetic poetic in his poems. He uses various language registers in unexpected contexts. A superconsciousness and his way of analysing create alienation effects. His strong language, compelling choice of words and bizarre logic coupled with his ironic and critical tone make Bogaert a contemporary poet who gets under his readers’ skins. So far he has published five books of poems. The first, Welcome Hygiene, appeared in 2006 and earned him the Prijs voor Lett ... more Paul Bogaert (c) Tineke de Lange
Paulus Böhmer Paulus Böhmer (born 1936 Berlin) is the great surmounter of contemporary German poetry, in his linguistic force, a simultaneously declamatory and tender poet. His texts, a “life-affirming vanitas” (FAZ) with ragged edges on both sides around the thought-through axis, converge into a single, forceful long poem. Each thread, pulled from the fabric at random spots, runs through the whole. Regardless of whether the book happens to be called “Kaddish” or “Am Meer. An Land. Bei mir”, his work is a sin ... more Paulus Böhmer Foto: gezett