Haus für Poesie

© gezett

9.30 am – 4.30 pm
Venue: Literaturwerkstatt Berlin
With: Christoph Bodenhammer (alias Mach One), Sabine Friedrichson, Hans-Joachim Gelberg, Uwe Kolbe and Dr. Gunther Nickel
Training fee: € 25.00
Registration via LesArt info(at)lesart.org

In order to promote the discovery of verse outside of the festival, the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin is also offering a training session for teachers and librarians on 27 June 2007 aimed at presenting the range of diverse artistic forms and the creative possibilities for handling poems in the teaching of literature. 
Tteachers and librarians will have the chance to come closer to poetry in a training session about discovering artistic ways of working with verse. Different verse forms and how to present them will be covered in speeches, poetry discussions and readings. Meanwhile, in three parallel workshops, seminar participants will themselves have the chance to try out the possibilities of creative expression in poetry, again based on the verse of Josef Guggenmos. Gunther Nickel from the German Literary Fund in Darmstadt will be providing information about the funding possibilities for literary and poetry programmes for children.

The children’s project is taking place in partnership with LesArt, the Berlin Centre for Children’s and Youth Literature.
Kindly supported by the German Literature Fond and the GLS Sprachenzentrum Berlin
Sponsored by the Capital Cultural Fund

© Fundación Guillem Viladot

28 June – 24 August.
Opening times: Mon-Thurs 1-7pm, Fri 1-6pm
Instituto Cervantes
Opening night: Wed 27 June, 5pm
Free entry

Works by Joan Brossa, Guillem Viladot and Josep Iglesias Del Marquet as well as David Ymbernon, J.M. Calleja, Bartomeu Ferrando, Xavier Canals Daniel, Eduard Escoffet, Santi Pau, Josep Vallribera

Images and words have been closely related since time immemorial. In the 20^th century, a literary genre named concrete poetry emerged in which the arrangement of words is of equal importance in conveying meaning as the words themselves. This exhibition presents concrete poetry from Catalonia with works by Joan Broassa (Barcelona, 1919 - 1998), Guillem Viladot (Agramunt, 1922 - Barcelona, 1999) and Iglesias Del Marquet (Artesa de Lleida, 1932 - Barcelona, 1989).

There are conceptual parallels between these authors and concrete poets from the Darmstadt Circle, namely Daniel Spoerri, Dieter Roth, Claus Bremer, Emmet Williams. The exhibition brings together 30 "poemas visuales" by Brossa, 24 "Pósters Poemas" by Viladot and "Postales Noramericanas" by Del Marquet. There is also an anthology in which concrete poets from Catalonia celebrate the artists on display.

An exhibition by the Instituto Cervantes in partnership with the Fundació Privada Guillem Viladot and kindly supported by the institut ramon llull.

6.30pm
Maschinenhaus
Tickets in advance € 4/2, € 5/3 on the door

With Bernhard Beutler publicist, Bonn, and Christian Filips author, Berlin
Hosted by Heike Härting Professor of Contemporary Canadian Literature, Montreal

20.00
Palais
Tickets in advance € 5/3, € 7/5 on the door

With Claude Beausoleil Canada, Quebec Nico Bleutge Germany Marc André Brouillette Canada, Quebec Suzanne Buffam Canada, Montreal Stéphane Despatie Canada, Quebec Orsolya Kalász Hungary / Germany Erín Moure Canada, Quebec Robert Schindel Austria Paul Vermeersch Canada, Ontario

The Literaturwerkstatt Berlin is bringing some of the most important poets from Canada and Quebec to Berlin for the VERSschmuggel translation workshop. As part of the poesiefestival berlin, they will be coming together with German-speaking colleagues to translate each other’s works. At the end of the workshop, the poems submitted by the participating poets should all be available in three languages. The poets will present the results of their translation sessions on 26 and 27 June 2007 in the Palais at the Kulturbrauerei.

In a workshop lasting for several days, poets will work in various pairings on interlinear translations and, with the help of an interpreter, produce new versions of their poems in the respective other language. This is a key procedure for poetry translation because it means that the poets are themselves involved and can work on the transformation of a poem’s complex text structure on the basis of sound and rhythm. The VERSschmuggel process gives the poets the chance to be appreciated in another language region. The texts will be published in an anthology next year while all the poets involved are featured on the poetry website www.lyrikline.org.

Kindly supported by the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, the Representation of the Quebec Government, the Canada Council for the Arts / Conseil des Arts du Canada, the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec and the Cultural Committee of German Business within the Federation of German Industries (BDI).Sponsored by the Capital Cultural Fond

© Mischewski

10pm
Maschinenhaus
Tickets in advance €4/2, €5/3 on the door

With Brygida Helbig, Magda Parys Liskowski, Lopez Mausere and Krzysztof Niewrzeda
Visuals Anna Krenz

From classical to punk, Dada to sonnet, and in Polish and German: poems from Polish poets living in Berlin. A panorama of styles gestures and voices.

Kindly supported by the Polnisches Institut Berlin