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...
