Christian Bök Christian Bök, born in Toronto, Canada, in 1966, combines language games and entertainment in wonderful ways. His books Chrystallography and Eunoia are poetic experiments in “clear writing” and “fine thinking”, with the latter collection bringing him the renowned Griffin Poetry Prize as well as being Canada’s best-selling poetry book. Bök continues the experimentation of concrete and sound poetry, doing homage to their great figures not only in his own texts but also in performances of classics ... more
Mirko Bonné Mirko Bonné (born in 1965 in Tegernsee) has translated work by such writers as E.E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, John Keats, Robert Louis Stevenson and William Butler Yeats. He has published novels, stories, essays, travel journals and radio plays. His novel Lichter als der Tag is forthcoming in Autumn 2017. Foreign travel and fellowships have taken Mirko Bonné to South America, the USA, Iran, China and the Antarctic. Prizes he has received for his work include the Ernst Willner Prize, the Prix Re ... more Mirko Bonné c_Skiba
Yves Bonnefoy Yves Bonnefoy (born 1923 in Tours, France) is, alongside René Char, Francis Ponge and Henry Michaux, one of the major French poets of the post-war period. His poetry is almost unique in combining complexity and elegance, impenetrability and classicism. He is one of the last great hommes de lettres, whose artistic and intellectual energy is not limited to one field and combines art with its reflection. For Weltklang he will be reading for the first time in Germany from his latest collection Ratur ... more
Szilárd Borbély Szilárd Borbély was born in Fehérgyarmat, Hungary, in 1964. He achieved his literary breakthrough with his book-length poem Hosszú nap el (Long Day Far Away). Since then he has published many books of poetry as well as plays, librettos, essays and short stories. His poetry collection Halotti pompa (Splendour of Corpses) deals with the tragedy that beset his family at Christmas 2000, when burglars brutally murdered his mother and seriously injured his father. Borbély deals with this by drawing on ... more
Katrin Born (de) Katrin Born arbeitet als Pädagogische Kunsttherapeutin vor allem mit Kindern und unterrichtet kreative Kunstprojekte an Berliner Grundschulen. Außerdem ist sie Fotografin. Zuvor war sie lange Zeit Grafikerin bei der Berliner Zeitung. Mit ihrer Familie lebt sie im Prenzlauer Berg. ... more Katrin Born (c) Katrin Born
Bas Böttcher Bas Böttcher (*1974, Germany) studied media development in Weimar. The spoken word lies at the heart of his work as a poet and reciter, influenced as he is by spoken word poetry and rap as well as Walter Höllerer’s "Dokumente zur Poetik". Sound, rhythmicity and linguistic dynamics are for him essential elements in the creation of atmosphere and mood. For Bas Böttcher, writing and the presenting of texts belong together. On stage, he works with video projections and music programmes. His latest w ... more
Bastian Böttcher Bastian Böttcher (*1974, Bremen, Germany) studied Media Design at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. He has lived in Berlin since 2000. He is one of the founders of Germany’s poetry slam scene and is still one of its most important representatives today. For Böttcher, the writing and public performance of his lyrical works belong inseparably together. His texts must be heard in order for the intended effect to be achieved. Sound, rhythm and dynamics are therefore at the forefront of his poetry perf ... more
Jan Böttcher Jan Böttcher (born in 1973 in Lüneburg) lives in Berlin. He is a writer, singer and musician. While studying Modern German Literature and Scandinavian Studies in Berlin and Stockholm, he founded the band Herr Nilsson, which was strongly identified with him as its singer and lyricist for four albums.As well as his other solo literary and musical projects, Böttcher started with some friends the music and events promotion label KOOKberlin, for which he has promoted and organised many events. In 200 ... more
Bas Böttcher Bas Böttcher was born in Bremen in 1974 and was one of the main trailblazers of the Germany Poetry Slam scene, winning the first German Poetry Slam Championship in 1997. Böttcher’s poems start out as language games and cover all the possibilities of word and sound in a highly virtuoso way. His poems have even been included in school textbooks and important anthologies of German-language verse such as The New Conrady and Lyrikstimmen (Lyrical Voices). Böttcher is the inventor of the ‘text box’, a ... more Foto: Büssemeier
Bas Böttcher Bas Böttcher (born in 1974 in Bremen) studied Media Design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and is one of the founders of the German Spoken Word scene. In 1997 he won the first German Poetry Slam Championships. The “pioneer of pop-poetry” as he has been called has developed various formats for poetry – the electronic hypertext Looppool as a form of expression on the Internet, the textbox for live performances and the Poetry Clip. He has published several books of poems with the publisher Vola ... more Bas Böttcher c_gezett
Eskerê Boyîk Eskerê Boyîk (born in 1941 in Qundexsazî, Riya Teze, Armenia) studied Business Studies in Yeriwan. After gaining his doctorate in 1974 he became the head of the faculty and taught on village economic structures. In 1993, following the collapse of the USSR, Boyîk came to Germany. He writes essays on science and social policy and is a freelance writer. He joined the Writers’ Union of the Soviet Union in 1984, later becoming a member of the Armenian Writers’ Association and the Kurdish PEN. In 2012 ... more Eskerê Boyîk c_privat
Anneke Brassinga Anneke Brassinga, born in 1948, is a translator, prose author, essayist and poet and is reckoned to be the language magician of Dutch literature. Her Collected Poems, entitled Passwords, has been described as a “reservation for endangered language species”, in which Brassinga leads the readers to various places and lets them taste the often unique words associated with them. Nonetheless, Brassinga’s language games are not games for the sake of playing, but are for her the route to ecstasy – the ... more Anneke Brassinga (c) privat