Rainer Stolz (de) Rainer Stolz (1966, Hamburg) lebt als freier Autor, Lyriker und Poesievermittler in Berlin. Sein poetisches Wirken erstreckt sich u.a. auf Herausgebertätigkeiten, Poesie-Spaziergänge, poetische Improvisation, Workshops und Veranstaltungsreihen sowie verschiedenste Zusammenspiele mit Künstlerinnen und Künstlern anderer Sparten. Buchveröffentlichungen: Selbstporträt mit Chefkalender, Reihe lyrikpapyri im Horlemann Verlag, Berlin 2014; Spötter und Schwärmer. Haiku-Vogelporträts, Edition Kraut ... more
Donna Stonecipher (de) Donna Stonecipher wuchs in Seattle und Teheran auf. Sie veröffentlichte vier Gedichtbände, zuletzt 2015 Model City. Für ihr drittes Buch The Cosmopolitan wurde sie mit dem Preis National Poetry Series 2007 ausgezeichnet. Sie erhielt außerdem zahlreiche Arbeits- und Aufenthaltsstipendien, darunter in Yaddo, New York, und das Carl-Djerassi-Stipendium in Kalifornien. Gedichte von Donna Stonecipher wurden in vielen Zeitschriften veröffentlicht, darunter The Paris Review, und sowohl Model City a ... more Donna Stonecipher (c) Millay Hyatt
Strangers by Day Strangers by Day are a five piece, female fronted, brass-toting band based in Berlin. Their music is influenced by 50's and 60's rock 'n' roll and blues and incorporates harmonies from the doo-wop and soul groups of the same era. It can be music to dance to, or cry over a break-up to, it all depends on the song. The lead vocals have been described as janis-joplin-esque. Well, the emotion is there. Strangers by Day are a live band with a gritty vintage vibe and they have just recorded their first ... more Foto: Rodger Brown
Gwenaëlle Stubbe Gwenaëlle Stubbe (born 1972 in Brussels, Belgium) is a poet and performer. She takes part in various radio programmes and does readings in both French and Flemish. Her poems are like little stories starting in day-to-day things and quickly drifting into the surreal. She describes her own texts, which are often about men, as “a small revenge on one half of humanity”. On stage she is a lively performer whose voice, poise and movements accentuate the music of her language. Gwenaëlle Stubbe has live ... more
Erika Stucky Swiss Erika Stucky (*1962, San Francisco) is one of the most original voices on the international jazz scene. She is a musical and literary mix of Laurie Anderson, Sissi Perlinger and Pippi Longstocking and, according to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, manages effortlessly to hit an irresistible spot between Alpine home life and urban nightmare. Her works are a mix of entertainment, avant-garde jazz and pop music, infused with American, Valais and Dadaist scraps of words. Out of this emerges ... more
Shang-Chi Sun Shang-Chi Sun (born in 1977 in Taipei, Taiwan) is a dancer and choreographer who was trained at the National Academy of Arts in Taiwan and gained his Master of Arts in Choreography in 2012 at the Ernst Busch Hochschule and at the Zentrum Tanz in Berlin. He shows his works in Europe and Asia, at such venues as the Festival d’Avignon, Maison de la Danse in Lyon, the Festival Tanz im August in Berlin, the Shizuoka Arts Festival and the Taiwan International Festival of Arts. His works are concerned ... more Shang-Chi Sun c_Ping Yen Chou
Keston Sutherland Poet and musician Keston Sutherland (b. 1976 in Bristol) is a major exponent of British experimental poetry. His manic performances of his aggressively high-definition texts pull out all the stops. He is one of the most important members of the second generation of what is known as the Cambridge School, a Modernist movement that radically rejects a conservative understanding of poetry. Like his mentor, the great poet J.H. Prynne, Sutherland is an enthusiastic Marxist exegete. His long poem “Hot ... more Keston Sutherland © privat
Matthew Sweeney Matthew Sweeney (born in 1952 in Donegal, Ireland) studied English and German Literature at London Polytechnic from 1973. In 1977 he spent a study year in Freiburg, where he undertook an intense study of German literature. Since the early 1980s he has published eight books of poems, most recently Sanctuary (2004) and Selected Poems (2002). On the one hand deeply rooted in the Irish tradition and on the other hand influenced by German writers from the Romantics to the present, his work has been u ... more Matthew Sweeney c_gezett
Cole Swensen Cole Swensen (b. 1955 in Kentfield, USA) divides her time between Iowa, Washington DC and Paris. She works as a writer, translator and editor and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Iowa. Her own press, La Presse, publishes French poetry in English translation.Cole Swensen's poetry, which, historically speaking, is grouped with Post-Language Poetry, is a reflective, erudite, and at the same time liguistically sensuous art, which draws on both American and French traditions of poetry an ... more
Christoph Szalay Christoph Szalay (born 1987 in Graz, Austria) first attracted attention as a professional sportsman in the Nordic combined event in Austria. In 2007 he swapped his career as a skiier for a degree in German Studies in Graz. The 25-year-old lives and writes there and in his house in the Ennstal. He attracted public attention with his first book of poems, stadt / land / fluss, which was published by Leykam in 2009, and in which Christoph Szalay manages the balancing act between reflective urban and ... more
Tibor Szemző Tibor Szemző was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1955 and is a composer, performer and media artist. His work is concerned with combining music with performative and filmic elements. With his band The Gordian Knot, featuring a changing line-up, he performs chamber music and orchestral works. As well as pursuing a solo career, Szemző has been a co-founder of several influential groups of artists since the 1970s, including Group 180, Takarmánybázis and Gordiusi Čomó. Works (a selection): Hamlet (c ... more Foto: Hamaritis