Eagleton on Poetry
Terry Eagleton's new book How to read a poem (Blackwells, 2007 - although on sale in November 2006!) represents a rare attempt to write...
LCB
Freitag, 15. Dezember 2006, 20.00 Uhr Ein Tunnel über der Spree„Berlin im Text“ Berlin als Lebens- und Arbeitsort: Zu dem Schriftstellertref...
Contemporary German Poetry in Australian Translation
Mouth to Mouth: Contemporary German Poetry in Translation , ed. Thomas Wohlfahrt and Tobias Lehmkuhl (Giramondo Publishing) Whilst I do not ...
Büchnerpreis 2006
The Büchner-Preisträger for 2006 was announced earlier this year to be Oskar Pastior. The author and translator, from Transylvania, is known...
Poetry and Poetics after Celan
Department of German, Queen Mary, University of London POETRY AND POETICS AFTER CELAN The works of Paul Celan have often been described as a...
Brecht Events in London
As part of the Poetry International Festival this Autumn at the South Bank Centre, in the year which is the fiftieth anniversary of Brecht’...
Berlin
The literature festival opened in Berlin today. Among the poets reading there are Ulla Hahn, Michael Krüger, Oskar Pastior, Gerhard Rühm, a...
Günter Grass and the SS
The German poet, the SS, erstwhile silence, late revelations , the usual story when it comes to postwar German writers and their entanglemen...
Brinkmann Film
This summer, the film Brinkmanns Zorn came out, based on the life and last project of the German poet Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, who died at th...
Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
T he Poetry Trust is an arts organisation which runs the UK's leading annual festival of international contemporary poetry at Aldeburgh...
Literaturwerkstatt Berlin
Die Literaturwerkstatt Berlin ist Begegnungsstätte von Autorinnen und Autoren mit ihrem deutschen Publikum. Besondere Schwerpunkte ihres Arb...
Gottfried Benn: Ausstellung
Benns Doppelleben oder Wie man sich selbst zusammensetzt Wechselausstellung im Literaturmuseum der Moderne Freitag, 7. Juli, bis Sonntag, 27...
Literaturportal
Heute wird das » Literaturportal «, die erste zentrale Internetplattform für das literarische Leben, auf einer Pressekonferenz in Berlin fre...
Peter Waterhouse
Poet and UEA Visiting Professor, Dr Peter Waterhouse, will be giving the third of his Leverhulme lectures on Tuesday 13th June, 5-7pm, Art...
Vortrag in Marbach
Heute wird das neue Literaturmuseum in Marbach eröffnet. Seine spektakuläre Präsentation kehrt das Verhältnis von Werk und Manuskript um. ...
POET: WOLF BIERMANN
The poetry collections Die Drahtharfe: Balladen, Gedichte, Lieder . Berlin: Wagenbach, 1965. Mit Marx- und Engelszungen: Gedichte, Balladen,...
Magazine for poetry and poetics
" Zwischen den Zeilen has become essential reading for anyone who wants to know what's going on at the cutting edge of German poet...
On the rationale behind German studies at British universities
"The culture of the German-speaking countries is exceptionally rich and vibrant. German-speaking writers, thinkers and artists have lon...
POET: MARCEL BEYER
The poetry collections Kleine Zahnpasta: Poems 1987-1989 . Paris: dead language press, 1989. Walkmännin: Poems 1988/89 . Frankfurt a.M.: Pat...
POET: BERT PAPENFUSS
The poetry collections Vorwärts im Zorn usw: Gedichte. Berlin & Weimar: Aufbau, 1990. SOJA. Berlin: Galrev, 1990. Led Saudaus: Notdich...
POET: HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER
The poetry collections (all Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp) verteidigung der wölfe: Gedichte. 1957 landessprache: Gedichte. 1960 blindenschrift:...
Lyric beginnings
Examples of a convention: the ‘Wo bin ich?’ lyric opening 1. Angelus Silesius (1624-1677), ‘Der verdammte Übeltäter’ : Ach weh, wo bin ich...
Goethe & Schiller
Radio 4 on Goethe Goethe on writing poetry Poems on figures from Greek myth Lieder settings of poems by Goethe and Schiller Schillerjahr 20...
Trakl workshop in London
Rediscovering Georg Trakl 19 May 2006 at the Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, London WORKSHOP PROGRAMME 11.00 Welcome from Johannes...
20 years ago today
Am 26. April 1986 ereignete sich in der Stadt Prypjat, Ukraine (damals: Sowjetunion) eine katastrophale Kernschmelze und Explosion im Kernr...
Goethe on Radio 4
The topic of this morning's 'In Our Time' programme was Goethe. Three guests and the presenter sought to make accessible comme...
German public intellectual rankings
The political magazine Cicero has ranked the top public intellectuals in Germany. The methodology apparently involved measuring presence in...
Poetry after Brecht
New Book O CHICAGO! O WIDERSPRUCH! Hundert Gedichte auf Brecht eds. Karen Leeder und Erdmut Wizisla (Transit Verlag, 2006) Many major writer...
FILM REVIEW: Halbe Treppe
Halbe Treppe is set in the 'other' Frankfurt, at Germany's border with Poland, in half-light and gloom. The city is portrayed a...
Lyrik Kabinett
Founded in 1989 as the first German poetry library, the Lyrik Kabinett is based in Munich and located in the Institute of Comparative Liter...
Recommended Poetry Sites
Lyrikkritik Poetry scene news online Poetics online Literaturportal Munich poetry library Marbach archive for literature Contemporary poetic...
Europe's forgotten places
The project Last & Lost: Unterwegs durch ein verschwindendes Europa reminds me of the many images of wastelands and untenanted building...
POET: ALBERT OSTERMAIER
The poetry collections (all Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp) Solarplexus: Gedichte. 2004. Autokino: Gedichte . 2001. Heartcore: Gedichte . 1999. F...
Poetry Scene News
Poetry scene news is a well-judged digest, provided by the South Bank Centre in London, from a predominantly UK perspective, but with some ...
Dreamlives
DREAMLIVES is a fully staged and dramatised recital of late romantic Lieder (Strauss, Berg and early Schoenberg), performed in German. It is...
World Book Day
World Book Day was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and was marked in over 30 countries around the glob...
Ophelia
In connection with my current work on Ophelia poems in German, I have been looking at Ophelia webpages. Here are some of the less silly one...
Heine
Zum 150. Todestag eines der berühmtesten deutschen Dichter ist national und international das Heine-Jahr ausgerufen.
Gossip
The prime minister's aide Alastair Campbell dined here at College on Friday night and when asked what German literature he recalled from...
Modern Poetry in Translation
'Poetry is less and less a prisoner of its own language . . . it is a universal language of understanding, coherent behind the many lang...
Berlinale
This week the 56th Berlin film festival opens. The films being shown include 55 German productions. In the last ten years German films have ...
Rilke Seminar Series
Oxford Rilke Seminars - Hilary Term Tuesday evenings at 5.30 pm in Christ Church, Oxford 1st week - 17 January Judith Ryan (Harvard Universi...
News from the L.C.B.
SPRACHE IM TECHNISCHEN ZEITALTER , HEFT 176 Zum ersten Mal war im letzten Dezember unser Schriftstellertreffen „Tunnel über der Spree“ ganz ...
Women and Death: Oxford Colloquium
5-8 January 2006, Trinity College, Oxford Hosted by Prof Helen Watanabe and Prof Sarah Colvin Pamela Sue Anderson on Death and/as Woman in P...
Poetry and Change
Amidst life-altering events and shifts, poetry is well placed as a genre because of its immediacy. The way poetry has of setting our interna...
Interactions between poetry and other arts
Poetry and Painting: Europe after the rain Poetry and Music: Lieder Conference: Interactions Poetry Research Network
