19. poesiefestival berlin: Elke Erb to give the 2018 Berlin Poetry Lecture
15.03.2018
The poet Elke Erb is giving the 2018 Berlin Poetry Lecture on 27 May as part of the 19th poesiefestival berlin. Under the heading “Values Verses Art”, the festival is taking place from 24 to 31 May and is organised by the Haus für Poesie in co-operation with the Academy of Arts.
The Lecture is entitled “A Poem Is What It Does”. Using diary notes from the past few years, Elke Erb provides us with insights into her daily writing practice. She tells of the attempt “to write the way one thinks to oneself” and explains how her language of the moment is set off by whatever happens to be caught in the “nets” of her senses. The Lecture is being published in a bilingual edition by Wallstein Verlag.
Save the date: Berlin Poetry Lecture as part of the 19th poesiefestival berlin
Sunday 27 May 2018, 7.30 pm
Academy of Arts, Hanseatenweg 10, 10557 Berlin
Elke Erb (born 1938 in Rheinbach, Voreifel) is, alongside Friederike Mayröcker, one of the most important contemporary German-speaking women poets. In former East Germany she was a major pillar of the literature scene in Prenzlauer Berg. Today she is seen especially by a young generation of poets as an artistic authority figure. Erb’s texts are “vital, contemporary and of the moment” (Süddeutsche Zeitung). In them, horizons of possibility are opened up which enable the reader to participate in a “multi-dimensional, ever-ending process of thinking and writing,” (jury statement, Trakl Prize 2012)
Elke Erb: ‘Das Gedicht ist, was es tut’ / ‘A Poem Is What It Does’. German-English. Translated from the Germany by Shane Anderson. Berlin Poetry Lecture Vol. 3. c. 80 pp., bound; c. € 13.90. Wallstein Verlag 978-3-8353-3261-4
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The 19thpoesiefestival berlin is a project by the Haus für Poesie in co-operation with the Academy of Arts and acknowledges the kind support of the Hauptstadtkulturfonds cultural fund and Maritime Hotels Berlin, and is presented by kulturradio rbb, tip Berlin, taz.die tageszeitung, BÜCHERmagazin and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.