Vlada, Miruna

Miruna Vlada, born 1986 in Bucharest, Romania, is a writer, feminist and researcher in European and Balkan studies. Since 2013, she has a PhD in international relations at SNSPA, Bucharest, where she is now teaching and coordinating the Center for European Studies. Vlada published four collections of poetry, amongst them “Bosnia. Partaj“ (Cartea Românească 2014, Eng.: “Bosnia. Partition”) – for which she received the Poetry Book of the Year Award at the Radio Romania Cultural Awards Gala – and most recently “Prematur“ (Cartier 2021). Selections of her poems have been published in several anthologies and translated into 14 languages. Vlada is a member of the board of the PEN Club Romania. She is currently working on her first novel.

Festival Content

WELTKLANG

Night of Poetry

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

WRITING HISTORIES

For history is a wicked stepmother when memory is orphaned

Kuppelhalle | 9/7 € Tickets

How does history become embedded in poetry? And how do poets engage with traces of collective or individual memories while addressing the traumas of entire societies that span across generations? What happens with historical sources in poetic work and how does poetry’s power of imagination change the experience of history? Writing Histories introduces four poets who dive deep into history within their texts and explore its diverse impacts on the present.

Kandé, Sylvie • Kiyanovska, Marianna • Uribe, Sara • Vlada, Miruna