a thousand tears deep

a thousand tears deep

- if catharsis doesn't work, emotion always does

a festival of the vienna poetry school (sfd)

in association with literaturhaus wien

fr., 14 and sat. 15 october 2016

lectures | readings | performances | music

our festival is concerned with the question of “moving/emotional” texts, both in an applied and a theoretical sense: can and may good literature move to tears? are goose pimples – according to adorno – a legitimate aesthetic experience? because it is curious: something that can be still enjoyed in pop music (the sweet “weltschmerz” from marissa nadler to nick cave, for example), often is labelled “sentimentality” in between book covers, or naïve poetry at best. though it is only about a shock through catharsis! also in literature.

with jochen distelmeyer, andrea grill, zuzana husárová, anneliese mackintosh, klaus nüchtern, daniela strigl, johannes ullmaier, oliver welter, fritz ostermayer
welcome: robert huez (literaturhaus wien), andreas mailath-pokorny (city councillor for culture and science, vienna), thomas drozda (federal minister for art and culture)

venue: literaturhaus, zieglergasse 26a, 1070 vienna
free admission

for the detailled programme go to: http://sfd.at/festival2016

event in english on friday, 14 october 2016:

7.30 p.m.
anneliese mackintosh (cornwall) – reading
any other mouth (german title: so bin ich nicht (gretas storys)), published in german in april and the short-stories-disguised-as-novel-debut of the young british author, in literary terms puts an emphasis on surprise effects via sexual explicitness and shameless self-exposure. However, in the middle of the excess of this primarily autobiographic soul strip one is struck with deep emotion. this also happened to dough johnstone, critic of the independent: “it’s one of the saddest yet most uplifting things I’ve read in ages and it made me cry.” we didn’t contain ourselves, too.

vienna poetry school in association with literaturhaus wien