Haus für Poesie

Oya Erdoğan

Sat. 5 June from 11 am in the various city districts

Berlin's poets reading in public places in their home districts

11am Neukölln Körnerpark, Schierkerstrasse 8. If the weather is bad, in the Galerie im Körnerpark.
Featuring Nico Bleutge, Tom Bresemann, Catherine Hales, Birgit Kreipe, Juliane Liebert, Philip Maroldt, Katharina Schultens, Brigitte Struzyk, Benedikt Wahner, Philipp Weber

2 pm Treptow-Köpenick Wagendorf Lohmühle, Lohmühlenstrasse, junction with Kiefholzstrasse. Same location if the weather is bad.
Featuring Dmitri Dragilew, Oya Erdoğan, Katrin Heinau, Odile Kennel, Milo Momm, Jinn Pogy, Björn Schäfer, Tom Schulz, Sergej Sturz, Julia Trompeter Music by: Ibrahim Baba Dango (talking drums, vocals) and Paul Schwingenschlögl (trumpet)

3 pm Marzahn-Hellersdorf Garden of the Flora Arthouse, Florastrasse 113. Same location if the weather is bad.
Featuring Susanne Bernhardt, Walter Goes, Diego Gortaire, Christiane Grosz, Blanche Kommerell, Anton Schwarzbach, Mikael Vogel Music by: Sebastian Kommerell

4 pm Spandau In front of the Gothic House, Breite Strasse 32. Inside the Gothic House if the weather is bad.
Featuring Philippe Braz, Iwona Mickiewicz, Michael Speier, Mahnaz Talebitari

4 pm Pankow Courtyard of the Sebastian Haffner Cultural and Education Centre, Am Wasserturm, Prenzlauer Allee 227–228. In the exhibition hall if the weather is bad.
Featuring Lars-Arvid Brischke, Ulrike Draesner, Eberhard Häfner, Norbert Hummelt, Norbert Lange, Tristan Marquardt, Johann Reißer, Angela Sanmann, Ron Winkler

5 pm Lichtenberg studio im hochhaus, Zingster Strasse 25. Same location if the weather is bad.
Featuring Maroula Blades, Synke Köhler, Helene Könau, Alistair Noon, Uwe Warnke, Music by: Lothar Fiedler

Free entry to all events:

With the kind support of: Kulturamt Neukölln, Kunst- und Kulturamt Lichtenberg, Kulturamt Treptow-Köpenick, Fachbereich Kultur Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Kunsthaus Flora, Kunstamt Spandau, Amt für Kultur und Bildung Pankow

photo: Jeff Nolte

Sat. 5 June 5 pm Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, Clubraum

Entry €5/3

Featuring Michael Ondaatje writer Canada Michael Krüger writer and publisher, Germany

Michael Ondaatje in conversation with Michael Krüger, his German publisher over many years, about poetry, novels and his passion for film.

With the kind support of: The Mandala Hotel

Abbas Beydoun

Sat. 5 June 6.30 pm Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, Club Room

Entry €5/3

Featuring Abbas Beydoun Lebanon Alaa Khaled Egypt Introduced by Michael Kleeberg writer, Berlin

As hubs between north and south, east and west, the port cities of Alexandria and Beirut have always stood for cosmopolitanism and cultural diversity, but also, inevitably, for tensions. Abbas Beydoun and Alaa Khaled talk about these two places and their symbolism.

With the kind support of: Heinrich-Böll-Haus Langenbroich e.V., Heinrich Böll Foundation

Alaa Khaled

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

Featuring Abbas Beydoun Lebanon Alaa Khaled Egypt Zakaria Mohammed Palestine Monzer Masri Syria Introduced by Leila Chammaa translator, Berlin German translations read by Sylvia Geist poet, Hanover Music by ar-Rumi Ensemble

For these four poets from the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, poetry is a place of freedom and creation – a place in which they can unfold, untrammelled by day-to-day restrictions, social coercion and political conditions. Accompanied by the ar-Rumi Ensemble, they will be taking us with them into their Utopia: their sea made of words, images and sounds.

Biographies

With the kind support of: Heinrich-Böll-Haus Langenbroich e.V., Heinrich Böll Foundation

Christiane Hommelsheim

Sat. 5 June 10 pm Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, Halle 3

Entry €8/5

Featuring Irene Mattioli production Christiane Hommelsheim performance / production Diana Kitzinski room production

The well-known poem by the Danish poet will be brought on to the stage in a new production. The performance will fuse language and song moving them in an acoustic background against which new sounds will emerge to create a kind of cyclical feeling in which room and sound and poetry combine.

Biographies

In cooperation with: operare 09 of the Contemporary Opera Berlin as part of ohrenstrand.net. ohrenstrand.net is supported by the Netzwerk Neue Musik and the Cultural Department of the Land of Berlin.