what's on
Embassy Event: 80 Years On: From Ruins to Reconciliation – Dresden’s Journey of Renewal
It was an honour and a privilege to be part of this extraordinary event at the German Embassy in London this February to mark 80 years since the Allied bombardment of Dresden. Thanks to his Excellency Ambassador Miguel Berger for the invitation and to Edmund de Waal, Durs Grünbein, and the Dean of Windsor and the Dresden Trust for their part is making it so moving and memorable,
Taking part in Bristol Translates Summer School 2025
Delighted to be part of Bristol Translates 2025 doing a seminar on poetry translation. Look froward to meeting everyone. See the full programme here and sign up.
Association of German Studies in Oxford German in the World
Delighted to be hosting the Association of German Studies in Oxford 1-3 September 2025. The theme is 'German in the World' and we are preparing a huge and wonderfully diverse programme of papers and events. More details coming soon.
Sandra Richter, Rilke: oder das offene Leben
Sandra Richter of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv in Marbach will present her new biography of Rilke: Rainer Maria Rilke: oder, Das offene Leben (Insel Verlag, 2025).
Rainer Maria Rilke was born in 1875 in Prague and passed away in 1926 in Montreux, Switzerland, making 2025 the 150th anniversary of this remarkable author’s birth, and 2026 the 100th anniversary of his death. This biography draws on previously unseen materials newly acquired by Marbach to paint a portrait of Rilke as we have never seen him before.
Launch of Psyche Running
Fantastic event at the Goethe Institute London on 18th February 2025 to launch Psyche Running. A fantastic audience and very grateful to receive this terrific write up of the event by Martyn Crucefix here
Ingo Schulze in Oxford
Delighted to welcome Ingo Schulze to oxford to read from his 2021 Die rechtschaffenden Mörder . Grateful to Sina Menrad and the other Lektor:innen for all their work. A fantastic occasion.
Alliance Literary Festival Bengaluru February 2025
What an honour to be part of the conversation at the Alliance Literary Festival 2025 at Bengaluru
More soon
Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters (MBIFL), ‘Currents of Change’
Very excited to be performing at Mathrubhumi International Festival of Letters (MBIFL), ‘Currents of Change’, at Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala 6-9 February.
Fit to burst with talks, performances and fascinating discussions
Kolkata Internaional Book Fair January 2025
Delighted to be performing with Ulrike Almut Sandig in January in Kolkata as part of Germany's guest year at the amazing Kolkata International Book Fair.: https://kolkatabookfair.net/
ABER HI Shining Sheep and other poems and films
Versatorium – Verein für Gedichte und Übersetzen - Laboratory for Translating Arts
Very Excited to be the guest of the Versatorium Vienna https://www.versatorium.at/#about
A radical social project and Laboratory for Translating Ats
Poetry and Translation Three Approaches
"Versatorium is a collective action on and in translation,
Freedom for Dawit! Freedom of the Press! Art and Play premiere for International Human Rights Day
Delighted to be part of this organised by PEN Eritrea and PEN Austria
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS - HUMAN RIGHTS ART PROJECT on the occasion of Human Rights Day organized by Wolfgang Martin Roth, in cooperation with PEN Eritrea, PEN Austria, Theodor Kramer Society and Vienna Master of Arts in Applied sciences
Monday, 9/12/2024 Time: 10am - 6pm
10am official opening Venue Mariahilferstraße 1 1070 Vienna Dawit Isaak. ! Voice from Prison. Art installation at the Human Rights Square Public Literary Event
Between Anticipation and Belatedness: Forms of Anachronism in Art Literature and Music
The conference examines artistic processes and forms that deliberately challenge continuous time or break with chronology. This can mean, for example, that writers, musicians or artists repeat themselves, take up supposedly obsolete (media) techniques, work in outdated genres or simply ignore the current developments of an artistic field. The articulation and evocation of the experience of no longer being a contemporary of one's own epoch has often been described as a typical feature of late works and theorized as such.
Enter The Ghosts: Elegy, Haunting and Reception in modern German Poetry 10-12 October 2024 LCB Berlin
Looking forward to the Autumn of 2024 when the second episode of the project AfterWords will take place discussing Afterlives and the way the past is remembered, reconstructed or haunts the present
10-12 October 2024 LCB Berlin: Enter The Ghosts!
Several fantastic people have already said yes. Watch this space.