CAConrad

Betonhalle | 15/10 € Anthology included Tickets

This summer, we are celebrating a night of poetry for the 25th time in Berlin. According to the annals of the capital’s media, the first edition on Potsdamer Platz in 2000 coincided with the sudden onset of a summer cold spell. It was way too dark to read into the anthology, and yet an enthusiastic audience held out until two in the morning.

Opposed to that night’s mythological inception at the turn of the millennium, there are not only warm rooms at Weltklang, but also reading lamps. Since 2023, German and English translations of all the poems read have been published in an anthology that is traditionally limited to people in attendance.

The eight poets from different parts of the world who are taking the stage this evening will read and perform in their original languages, showcasing the intensities that poetry can generate not only in silent reading but also in the spoken word, in the concentration of a poetic voice.

Brassinga, Anneke • Chingonyi, Kayo • CAConrad • Ekhtesari, Fatemeh • Hwang, Yuwon • Kandé, Sylvie • Kiyanovska, Marianna • Vlada, Miruna

Kuppelhalle | 9/7 € Tickets

Writing Identities centers around four poets from different countries who have made a break with traditional gender roles and have found innovative language to do so. With tremendous powers of imagination, they create new modes to express marginalized perspectives and experiences while questioning familiar patterns, ascriptions, modes of representation and presentation, perception, and interpretive authority.

CAConrad • February, Logan • Giles, Harry Josephine • Jeschke, Lisa

Haus für Poesie | 7/5 € Tickets

The film The Book of Conrad (Delinquent Films 2016) by Belinda Schmid and David Welch follows the poet CAConrad to where they grew up in rural America in a small town in Pennsylvania. Boyertown is a dinky village filled with racism and homophobia.

CAConrad