an album for eternity

the catalyst of the evening is a ‘favourite album’, brought along by the author and intended to ignite a dialogue about the specific aesthetics and politics of the album and the respective author’s writing. are there subconscious connections between what one hears and how one writes? do authors work in silence? if not, then which sounds inspire them and which make all thoughts impossible? is the rhythm of a text comparable to the temporal structures of notes and intervals? if not, then where is the difference? can reading a great poem generate psycho-physiological emotions that are similar to those experienced when listening to a great song? moreover: when we listen to our ‘favourite album’, are we not first and foremost listening to our own biography?

this series, conceived as a monthly co-operation with "rhiz" in vienna, will have to focus on passions: the love of music, the obsession with writing and the numerous kinds of resistance that every passion has to overcome.

between the talks, the authors will read from their work. “musical passages”, as far as such exist.

together with fritz ostermayer on stage at the "rhiz":

on 9.1.: judith pfeifer

on 13.2.: daniel wisser

on 13.3.: nadja bucher

on 10.4.: augusta laar & kalle laar

on 8.5.: peter rosei

on 12.6.: thomas meinecke (munich)

photos: >> www.facebook.com/poetryschool

start: 9.00 p.m.

the talk and reading will be followed by the guest and host entertaining on the turntables.

"rhiz" and sfd hope you are interested in this series and "waltz in".

in november an "album" takes place during buch wien, the vienna international book fair, with the ukrainian writer juri andruchowytsch: thurs, 13 nov 2014, 7 p.m., MUSA museum, 1010 vienna.

preview 2015
the series will be continued in 2015, in association with literaturhaus wien.
starting on thurs., 26 march 2015.
info: >>www.sfd.at/en/program/2015/an-album-for-eternity

see newsflash>> for details