Haus für Poesie

Max Prosa, Foto: Sieland

Sat. 9 June 11 am to 6 pm
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, forecourt and Tiergarten
Admission free

Poetry is spreading out into the Tiergarten to demonstrate that there's a market for the small form after all. The poesiefestival berlin is inviting everyone to come and browse and discover wonders at the big poetry market. Selected publishers, antiquarian book dealers and poetry bookshops will be offering newly-published books and rare finds.
A programme of poetry and music will ensure a bustling market atmosphere: Max Prosa, one of the most exciting of the current crop of singer-songwriters, will be giving an unplugged concert. Other artists set to appear will include disco-agitator-chanteuse Bernadette La Hengst, poets' band Fön, musician poet Jan Böttcher and Berlin newcomers Artwhy. Poet and performer Nora Gomringer will be accompanied by percussionist Günter Baby Sommer. Poets Christian Filips and Monika Rinck will be singing chansons. Bert Bredemeyer will be turning into a ballad-jukebox and Rainer Stolz will be leading a poetic bird walk through the Tiergarten. Elke Erb, Christian Filips and Bo Wiget will be answering urgent 'household questions' with cookery and poems. For children there will be a programme of play and handicrafts all about poetry.
There will be food and drink. If it is raining, the Poetry Market will be held inside the Academy of the Arts instead.
Featuring Artwhy; Jan Böttcher; Bert Bredemeyer; Elke Erb, Christian Filips, Monika Rinck, Franz Tröger und Bo Wiget; Fön; Nora Gomringer und Günter Baby Sommer; Bernadette La Hengst; Max Prosa (around & about acoustically); Rainer Stolz Hosted by Shelly Kupferberg, journalist, Berlin
Children's programme: Sylvia Krupicka Literature communicator and writer, Berlin
Poetic products provided by: BELLA triste, Berlin Verlag, BuchKunst Kleinheinrich, Buchlokal in Pankow, Carl Hanser Verlag mit u. a. Edition Akzente und Edition Lyrik Kabinett, DuMont Buchverlag, Edit, Edition Korrespondenzen, Edition Rugerup, Fixpoetry, hochroth Verlag, KOOKbooks, Leipziger Literaturverlag, Literaturverlag Droschl, Luchterhand Literaturverlag, luxbooks, Lyrikedition 2000, Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Matthias Wagner Antiquariat, Poesiealbum / Märkischer Verlag, poetenladen verlag, randnummer, roughbooks, Saint George’s Bookshop, Suhrkamp und Insel Verlag, Verlag C. H. Beck, Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Verlag Hans Schiler, Verlagshaus 
J. Frank I Berlin, Wallstein Verlag

Project leader: Matthias Kniep

Jinn Pogy

Sat. 9 June 3 pm
Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg, Clubraum, Admission free

André Göhlich graphic artist, Leipzig Nora Gomringer poet, Bamberg Christian Filips poet, script editor and performer, Berlin Matthias Fritsch film maker and media artist, Berlin and Athens Anatol Knotek text-and-image artist, Vienna Jinn Pogy poet and conceptual artist, Berlin Arne Rautenberg crazy idea and hangover threshold, Kiel Ulf Stolterfoht "brueterich", Berlin  Hosted by Eyk Henze Leipzig

Some of the most interesting German-speaking poets and artists involved with poetry will be introducing themselves and showing off their poetic finesse in Pecha Kucha format. With just 20 pictures at 20 seconds for each speaker to make their point, Pecha Kucha demands clarity of every talk, not forgetting a good dose of hilarity and authenticity.

Project leader: Eyk Henze