Event: June 2015
Thu
25/6/15
09:00 PM
Luther’s language – a poet’s language
Lection & Talk
With Hendrik Jackson (writer, translator and editor, Berlin), Christian Lehnert (poet, librettist and essayist, Leipzig), Karla Reimert (writer, translator and editor, Berlin)
Moderation: Michael Braun (literary critic and editor, Heidelberg)
What links poets of today with their knowledge of Luther’s German, the ‘Luther sound’ in German, with the poetic power of Luther’s language? And what does this mean for their own poetry?
Hendrik Jackson sees the more direct access to individual power and the individual’s world of emotion in the pre-Lutheran “wild growth of language”. For Karla Reimert, Luther’s German is a “firm fortress” and “religious symmetry” in the language, which, like Bach’s music, is “the most precise expression of religious musicality”.
With the kind support of The Mandala Hotel
Curated by: Dr. Thomas Wohlfahrt. Project leader: Bettina Henningsen
Academy of Arts
Clubraum
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
Entrance fee:
6/4 EUR
Tickets online
Vorverkauf in der Akademie der Künste:
Tel 030. 200 57-1000/-2000
Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin-Tiergarten
Pariser Platz 4, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Täglich 10:00–19:00