Oleschinski, Brigitte

(c) Renate von Mangoldt

Brigitte Oleschinski (*1955 in Cologne) has published several volumes of poetry as well as essays and autofictional prose. Her poetic work includes multimedia poetry performances and poetry translations around the world. Her poems have been honoured with the Peter Huchel Prize (1998) and the Erich Fried Prize (2004), among others. Most recently, her translation from Arabic (together with Osman Yousufi) of Lina Atfah was published: “Grabtuch aus Schmetterlingen” (Pendragon 2022), for which the three of them were awarded the Ruhr Literature Prize 2023.

 

Festival Content

VOCATIONS – OPEN SPACE

Songs and vocal practices based on poetry

Kuppelhalle | 4/2 € Tickets

Vocations – open space 2024 will organise four evenings of radically open transdisciplinary experiments and collaborations at the interface between music, sound and poetry at silent green Kulturquartier’s event space Kuppelhalle (29.5. / 8.7. / 9.10. / 3.12.). As a meeting place for Berlin’s contemporary poetry and music scenes, Vocations offers an open space to up to twenty artists to perform at any one time, combining a wide variety of musical and vocal practices based on or rooted in poetry.

Abdulla-zadè, RaminaBrand, UlrikeDunajcsik, MátyásFeizabadi, AmenHansen, JannesHolland, TimKeskinkılıç, Ozan ZakariyaLin-Siedler, LixueMacken, JosephineDilek, MayatürkOleschinski, BrigitteOpitz, BirteSaul, FabianSeither, CharlotteTóth, Kinga