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class with heike fiedler (geneva/düsseldorf)
"what’s the matter? take the word apart and perform a poem."
performance writing. short class in vienna
19 and 20 october, class presentation on 21 october 2016 during the schamrock festival
now open for registration!
1,000 tears deep
"– if catharsis doesn't work, emotion always does"
two-day festival
14 and 15 october 2016, every day from 6 p.m.
with jochen distelmeyer, andrea grill, wolfgang hermann, zuzana husárová, anneliese mackintosh, klaus nüchtern, daniela strigl, johannes ullmaier, oliver welter, sfd-students and 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)
vienna poetry school in association with literaturhaus wien
class with oliver welter (naked lunch) & fritz ostermayer
"sad sad song – we are writing melancholy texts for saddest melodies."
10, 11, 13 october, class presentation on 14 october 2016 during sfd's festival "1,000 tears deep" at literaturhaus
(few places still available!)
tip: walking cities: discussion with writers
we are happy to host julya rabinowich and kayo chingonyi with an event organised by British Council Austria on thursday, 22 september, 7 pm!
these two writers will be discussing themes based around shakespeare’s play measure for measure, which is set in vienna.
exhibition at the vienna poetry school
"wolpertingerauflauf: mischwesen transmedial aufgetischt" – a transmedia serving of hybrid creatures. from the book "kuhu, löwels, mangoldhamster: die 4 jahreszeiten der wolpertinger" (sonderzahl 2015) by markus köhle (aut) & sabine freitag (gre/aut). until 16 sept. 2016 at sfd's, 1070 vienna
guest performances at sfd: "vienna summer fling"
hillary keel/nyc, karin seidner, daniela beuren (former sfd students) & guest readers. two or more languages.
date: wed., 27 july 2016, 7:30 p.m.; free admission
venue: sfd, mariahilfer str. 88a/stiege III/7, 1070 vienna
birthday poems by sfd-poets for dm
for a cooperation of sfd with the retailer dm drogerie markt claudia bitter, michael köhler, sacrydecs and sian aris wrote poems.
augusta laar in medellín (col)
festival internacional de poesía & escuela internacional de poesía de medellín (col), 18 to 25 june 2016
the poetry school in medellín, founded in 1996 in cooperation with ide hintze and the vienna poetry school (sfd), celebrates its 20th anniversary. we are very happy that augusta laar represents sfd in medellín: giving a performance at the festival and conducting a workshop together with kalle laar!
tip: h.c. artmann. a celebration
95th birthday. organised by sprachspiel. biennale west
10 to 12 june 2016
venue: breitenseer lichtspiele. breitenseer str. 21. 1140 vienna; free admission
on 11 june: poetic acts of the vienna poetry school
an album for eternity
sfd-series: writers in conversation with fritz ostermayer on music and text production.
music/text/talk with today's guest dorothee elmiger (zurich).
thurs., 9 june 2016, 7 p.m., free admission + class presentation!
venue: literaturhaus, zieglergasse 26a, 1070 vienna