an album for eternity
continuation of the sfd-series.
authors talk with fritz ostermayer about music and text production.
upcoming: 18 february 2016 with anna weidenholzer!
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, from 2015 onwards conceptualized in association with literaturhaus wien, 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. in-between the talks, the authors will read from their work.
guests in 2015:
on 26 march: josef winkler (klagenfurt)
on 23 april: ann cotten (vienna/berlin)
on 21 mai: christoph w. bauer (innsbruck)
on 22 october: anna weidenholzer (vienna) cancelled
on 10 december: teresa präauer (vienna)
start: 7 p.m.
venue: literaturhaus
zieglergasse 26a, 1070 vienna
free admission
for details: >> newsflash
review: >> "album" 2014