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for a cooperation of sfd with the retailer dm drogerie markt claudia bitter, michael köhler, sacrydecs and sian aris wrote poems.

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!

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

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

"how we want to write: questions on writing as a compound or separately"
class in vienna, 6, 7 and 8 june, class presentation on 9 june 2016
open for registration.

sfd's get-together
wed., 1 june 2016, 7 p.m.
venue: treubleiben, kirchengasse 20, 1070 vienna

short class "creative writing in spanish"
with daniel saavedra aguirre (escuela de escritores)
for spanish learners and spanish native speakers
23 and 24 may 2016 in vienna

class presentation markus köhle & students AND exhibition opening
"wolpertingerauflauf: mischwesen transmedial aufgetischt" with sabine freitag and markus köhle
wed., 13 april 2016, 7 p.m.; free admission
venue: sfd, mariahilfer strasse 88a/stiege III/7, 1070 vienna

premiere! fh joanneum students visualized texts of sfd's poetry-under-construction-site "against smoothness": presentation during the exhibition EIN | AUS | BLICK in graz from 4 march until 3 april, opening on 3 march 2016!

"weeding tools in the poetry reserve – prose furrows, swaths in fields of words and tilling sounds. about the cultivation of short forms mixed with speech and a wish for recitation."
4, 5, 11, 12 april, class presentation on 13 april 2016
registration from now on!

authors talk with fritz ostermayer about music and text production.
music/text/talk this time with heinrich steinfest (stuttgart)
thurs., 14 april 2016, 7 p.m., free admission (+class on 13 and 14 april!)
venue: literaturhaus, zieglergasse 26a, 1070 vienna

"first sentence and last words" – how to begin and how to end. short class in vienna, 13 and 14 april 2016. already open for registration!

on 26 february 2016, the winners were presented during the ö1 radio play gala.
mario wurmitzer won the prize of the vienna poetry school.

continuing with: "poetry and ..."
wednesday, 2 march 2016, 7 p.m.
venue: treubleiben, kirchengasse 20, 1070 vienna

"do it yourself"
by orf's ö1 programme in association with the vienna poetry school
presentation of the finalists: 25 jan. and 1 feb. 2016, 8 p.m., at schauspielhaus wien, presentation of the winning micro-dramas during the ö1 radioplay-gala on 26 feb. 2016 at orf-radiokulturhaus.
online voting: 25 jan. until 15 feb. 2016

performances from the vienna poetry school's (sfd) balcony onto mariahilfer strasse – from sept. 2014 until dec. 2015. a review in videoclips.

authors talk with fritz ostermayer about music and text production.
the series continues in 2016. guest in february: anna weidenholzer
(instead of the originally planned event in october 2015)
thursday, 18 february 2016, 7 p.m., free admission
venue: literaturhaus, zieglergasse 26a, 1070 vienna

new sfd-publication!
a poetry volume by camilo c. antonio (text), illustrations by ion neculai.
preface: fritz ostermayer; prologue: susan katzmann, katya klim, aviott john; epilogue: timea junghaus.
language: english. exhibition to the book until 29 jan. 2016

authors talk with fritz ostermayer about music and text production.
sfd-series since 2013, guest in december: teresa präauer
thurs., 10 december 2015, 7 p.m., free admission
venue: literaturhaus, zieglergasse 26a, 1070 vienna

with author rosa pock. on the photos of andy urban.
to participate go to >> http://sfd.at/waagen (site in german. just register)