Haus für Poesie

photo: Kedros Verlag

Mon. 7 June 6.30 pm  Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, Club Room
Entry €5/3

Featuring Titos Patrikios writer, Athens Introduced by Maike Albath literary critic, Berlin

He was active in the resistance to the German occupation, held as a political prisoner in Greece and lived for many years in exile - and is a poet. In conversation with Maike Albath, Patrikios will be talking about his life and work.

With the kind support of the Greek Culture Foundation, Berlin branch, the Hellenic Republic – Ministry for Culture and Tourism.

Yannis Stiggas

Mon. 7 June 8 pm  Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, Hall 3
Entry €6/4

Reading featuring Jazra Khaleed, Dimitra Kotoula, Titos Patrikios and Yannis Stiggas Introduced by Giorgos Lillis writer, Bielefeld

For several years now, a new young generation of poets have been raising their voices in Greece, combining the rich, lyrical tradition of the country with the urgent topics of the present. The subjects engaged with by this generation extend from the possibilites for perceiving the world through language to descriptions of everyday life in Athens streets.

Furthermore we are showing the poetry film "I Apofasi" ("The Decision", director: George Drivas, 2007).

Biographies

With the kind support of the Greek Culture Foundation, Berlin branch, the Hellenic Republic – Ministry for Culture and Tourism.

Monika Rinck

Mo 7. June 10 pm Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, Kleines Parkett
Entry €8/5

Featuring Nora Iuga writer, Romania István Kemény writer, Hungary Rainer Kohlberger video artist, Germany David Moss composer / performer USA Theo Nabicht contrabass clarinettist, Germany Frédéric Pattar composer, France Monika Rinck writer, Germany Marcelo Toledo composer, Argentina Mario Verandi composer, Argentina and the Neue Musik Berlin chamber ensemble

This is the third time the e-poesie series will be experimenting with the transformation of the sounds of poetry into new acoustic spaces. Works by guests of the Berlin Artists' Programme of the DAAD in the Literature and Music categories will be presented, and will explore the transitions of language into sound and sound into language in quite different ways. This will also include Mario Verandi's audio-visual poetry performance Constellations, which has been commissioned by the poesiefestival berlin itself.

A co-production with the Berlin Artists' Programme of the DAAD.
With the kind support of ohrenstrand.net (supported by the Netzwerk Neue Musik and the Cultural Department of the Land of Berlin).