Haus für Poesie

9:30-13:00
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Konferenzraum
Eintritt: € 3,00 pro Schüler
Anmeldung erforderlich unter kulturellebildung@literaturwerkstatt.org

Mit Julia Reiner (Doktorandin der Deutschen Literatur, Berlin)

Flirrende Bäume (Ulrike Almut Sandig), Geräumte Parks (Daniel Falb), Herbstinfarkte (Tina Gintrowski), Plastiniertes Gelände (Tobias Falberg) – Natur und Naturerlebnis sind seit Jahrhunderten tradierte Themen in der Lyrik, doch die Naturgedichte des 21. Jahrhunderts haben nur noch wenig gemein mit den betulichen Landschaftsmeditationen vergangener Epochen. Geprägt durch die zunehmende Medialisierung unseres Alltags und durch die Einflüsse der Großstadt hat sich die Art und Weise der Betrachtung und Darstellung der Natur in der Lyrik verändert. Da kann es schon mal passieren, dass das klingelnde Mobiltelefon mit Vogelgezwitscher verwechselt wird oder der Waldspaziergang eher Horrorfilmstimmung hervorruft als beruhigend und erholsam zu sein. Der Schülerworkshop zeigt, wie junge Autoren Natur wahrnehmen und in ihren Texten darstellen und bietet Schülern die Möglichkeit über ihre eigenen Erfahrungen und Wahrnehmungen Gedichte zu schreiben.

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung durch:
RITTER SPORT

Mon. 4 June 5 pm 
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Clubraum, Admission € 5 / 3
Event suitable for English speakers

With Euphrase Kezilahabi poet and philosopher, Tanzania Ngwatilo Mawiyoo poet and musician, Kenya  Moderated by: Uljana Wolf writer, New York and Berlin

Many-sided Kenyan Spoken Word poet Ngwatilo Mawiyoo personifies Kenya's colourful and many-faceted poetry scene that is extremely active and innovative, with poems being read on the radio, and as a current energising blogs, YouTube and social media. Poems are written on films, and in the Koroga art form poetic aphorisms are placed in artistic dialogue with photos. Ngwatilo Mawiyoo uses all these forms. 
Writer, scholar and philosopher Euphrase Kezilahabi is one of the most influential revivers of Swahili literature. He rejects the ossified literary forms that have dominated this literature up to now, using free verse in his poems, in which he writes about sexuality as social renewal, leaving behind the images and descriptions and means of expression that were conventional until his poems appeared. They will be speaking with writer and translator Uljana Wolf about the poetry scene in Kenya and Tanzania.

Sponsored by: German Foreign Office
With the kind support of: AfricAvenir International e.V., Episcopal relief organisation
MISEREOR, Seminar for African Studies, Humboldt Universität Berlin 
Project leader: Isabel Ferrin-Aguirre

Mon. 4 June 6.30 pm 
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Clubraum, Admission € 5 / 3
Event suitable for English speakers

With Fatima Naoot poet and translator, Egypt Hama Tuma poet, Ethiopia and France  Moderated by Maureen Maisha Eggers Professor of Childhood and Difference: Diversity Studies, University of Magdeburg-Stendal

The Nile flows through regions that are marked by dictatorship, war, intolerance and oppression. Writers from the countries along its banks will be talking about the situation there and the played by poetry in overcoming the problems.
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi initiated a project for writers from northern Sudan and writers from English-speaking South Sudan to translate each other, a project of enormous political relevance in that divided country ravaged by civil war. Poet and jurist Hama Tuma had to go into exile because of his commitment to human rights. "Since the revolution Ethiopians don't smile any more," he said after a woman was sentenced for having criminal thoughts because she was caught smiling.

Fatima Naoot has chosen poetry as a means of expression to shake people up and inculcate truths centred on dignity and mutual respect irrespective of origin, belief or religion.
The poets will be talking about the situation in East Africa, their struggle and the role played by poetry in it.

Sponsored by: German Foreign Office
With the kind support of: AfricAvenir International e.V., Episcopal relief organisation MISEREOR
Project leader: Isabel Ferrin-Aguirre

Mon. 4 June 8 pm 
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Studiofoyer, Admission € 8 / 5

With Euphrase Kezilahabi poet and philosopher, Tanzania Ngwatilo Mawiyoo poet, actor and musician, Kenya Fatima Naoot poet and translator, Egypt, Hama Tuma poet, Ethiopia and France  Moderated by Laura López Castro musician, Berlin

'The Nile as Sounding Board' presents the colourful richness of the poetic landscapes on the Nile in sound, form and format, from classic reading to Spoken Word performance. Six poets will be performing their own resonant rebellion against oppression, violence and terror in Amharic, English, Arabic and Swahili. Euphrase Kezilahabi revitalises the Swahili language in his poems, enriching it with new and more flexible forms of expression and subjects not based on tradition but on the day-to-day struggle for survival. Three Ethiopian governments have thrown Hama Tuma out of the country. With satire and a pointed pen he continues the struggle against the wars in his country from France. Performance poets Ngwatilo Mawiyoo and Fatima Naoot draw audiences with them into the depths of a lived revolution. Spoken Word poet Ngwatilo Mawiyoo, also called the "priest of the art of performed poetry", takes her subjects from the lives and day-to-day experiences of various Kenyan communities in her texts and performs them melodically. Fatima Naoot's poems are a curious day-by-day pursuit of the changes in her country, taking the reader by the hand and gazing with open eyes and fine words at topics such as religious fundamentalism, social developments and the poetry of the Nile.

Sponsored by: German Foreign Office
With the kind support of: AfricAvenir International e.V., Episcopal relief organisation MISEREOR,
Seminar for African Studies, Humboldt Universität Berlin
Project leader: Isabel Ferrin-Aguirre