Tibor Hrs Pandur (SI): The medium is the mask

Poet, editor, organizer and founder of the literary platform I.D.I.O.T. Tibor Hrs Pandur from Slovenia talks about the importance of independent publishing. Yet it is only through festivals, music and performance literature that can be enhanced and spread according to contemporary needs. That also touches the politics of literature. And this is also what Tibor writes about. Make the intimate things the agenda and mask them by text.  

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Fast │ Cheap │ Dirty: Anneke Brassinga (NL)

“The grand-dame of poetry in the Netherlands” – Only her nonchalant humor beats her lyric capabilites. And the combination is more than entertaining which she very well proved at Poesiefestival 2015 in Berlin at VERSchmuggel on June 23rd. It was a great improvisation x Oswald Egger. Outside I had the chance to take a few photos of Anneke Brassinga when I met her, smoking.

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Fast │ Cheap │ Dirty: Katarzyna Fetlińska (PL)

I was at Poesiefestival 2015 in Berlin yesterday to see what the selection of Polish authors would bring, and, Lo!, what a pearl I have found. Her name is: Katarzyna Fetlińska, very young and sexy at her performance.

I had the honor to interview her shortly, asking her three questions to which she replied in gestures. Look here:

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CRY OUT FOR CROWD: Anja Golob (SI)

Copyright: Kaja Avberšek. http://kajakajak.tumblr.com

Cheers to Slovenia! Živijo! Smem prositi za ples? The Slovene author Anja Golob writes poetry, does translations, is an editor, a critic and a dramaturg. CROWD-Scout Linde Nadiani met her in Ljubljana just recently where they had a coffee. Now she told me about her poetry, about the Slovenian literary scene and about her recent publication in German. Let’s dance with Anja Golob.

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CROWD Diary Entry #1 (RKS)

Polip International Literature Festival
22-24 May 2015, Pristina (Kosovo)

After an intense and productive CROWD-partner meeting in Graz together with the teams of Lettrétage, Nuoren Voiman Liitto, FORUM Stadtpark and Ideogramma I continued my journey first to Slovenia and then to Kosovo, in order to meet some literary activists (and, hopefully, future members of the CROWD!) and to get more information about the free literary scenes in this countries…
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Portrait: Steven J Fowler (GB)

This photo of SJ Fowler comes as “Bear as the Bear”. Best wishes to Jack London. Copywright: Steven J Fowler

This photo of SJ Fowler comes as “Bear as the Bear”. Best wishes to Jack London.

By Julia Schiefer

The atmosphere of the “Hay Festival” in 2014 is buoyant and somewhat noisy. One could imagine that outside of the small frame of the youtube picture there could be people passing by, mumbling to each other, going out or in or stay for a while before moving on. Yet, it is poet/artist Steven J Fowler reading out his poems, that the screen is showing.  Approaching the microphone, he says: “Oh my god, I just realized I am in Mexico” and right in this moment a technician appears out of nowhere to fix the height of his microphone as if he wanted to answer: Yes, my friend, here you are. Before reading out his poetry he states in a brutally honest fashion that he thanks “whoever  insane person who decided to invite me” from London to Mexico, who invited a guy who writes poetry. A  guy who is actually very restless about organizing collaborative poetry events with now over “100 events in over a dozen countries”, and has published just recently his sixth book of his own poetry {Enthusiasm}, doing exhibitions, and before he has been a poet actually was a martial artist. Continue reading Portrait: Steven J Fowler (GB)

Time to eat the dessert – The résumé

Long time no hear! Summarizing the discussions of the conference in Berlin we want to share with you the résumé of the efforts of January. Let’s CROWD across Europe with this neat little résumé in our pockets to present it to sponsors, to activists, to policians alike and let’s disseminate it in any digital way possible. In the Beginning of 2015 it was time to eat. Now it is time to spread the word. Here you go, ladies and gentlemen:

Résumé conference (download, PDF 537 kb)

 

Photos Berlin Conference January 2015

(© Ulrike Techert)
(© Ulrike Techert)
Jennifer Bode (U30, Germany), Linde Nadiani, listener  (© Ulrike Techert)
Jennifer Bode (U30, Germany), Linde Nadiani, listener
(© Ulrike Techert)
Andrea Inglese (Blog Nazione Indiana/ Camera Verde, Italy) (© Ulrike Techert)
Andrea Inglese (Blog Nazione Indiana/ Camera Verde, Italy) (© Ulrike Techert)
Nora Hadjisotiriou (Ideogramma, Cyprus), Laura Serkosalo (Nuoren Voiman Liito, Finland),  Lily Michaelidou (Ideogramma, Cyprus) Katharina Deloglu (Lettrétage, Germany) (© Ulrike Techert)
Nora Hadjisotiriou
(Ideogramma, Cyprus), Laura Serkosalo (Nuoren Voiman Liito, Finland), Lily Michaelidou (Ideogramma, Cyprus) Katharina Deloglu (Lettrétage, Germany) (© Ulrike Techert)
(© Ulrike Techert)
(© Ulrike Techert)
Laura Seifert, Moritz Malsch (Lettrétage, Germany), Alexander Filyuta (Lyrik im Ausland, Germany), Inga Bodnarjuka (Orbita, Latvia), Vera Kurlenina (hochroth, Germany), Ana Pejovic (Krododil Festival, Serbia) (© Ulrike Techert)
Laura Seifert, Moritz Malsch (Lettrétage, Germany), Alexander Filyuta (Lyrik im Ausland, Germany), Inga Bodnarjuka (Orbita, Latvia), Vera Kurlenina (hochroth, Germany), Ana Pejovic (Krododil Festival, Serbia) (© Ulrike Techert)
Alexander Filyuta (Lyrik im Ausland, Germany), Inga Bodnarjuka (Orbita, Latvia), Vera Kurlenina (hochroth, Germany), Ana Pejovic (Krododil Festival, Serbia), Heidrun Primas (Forum Stadtpark Graz), Max Höfler (Forum Stadtpark, Austria) (© Ulrike Techert)
Alexander Filyuta (Lyrik im Ausland, Germany), Inga Bodnarjuka (Orbita, Latvia), Vera Kurlenina (hochroth, Germany), Ana Pejovic (Krododil Festival, Serbia), Heidrun Primas (Forum Stadtpark Graz), Max Höfler (Forum Stadtpark, Austria) (© Ulrike Techert)
Martin Jankowski (Berliner Literarische Aktion, Germany) (© Ulrike Techert)
Martin Jankowski (Berliner Literarische Aktion, Germany) (© Ulrike Techert)

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(© Ulrike Techert)
(© Ulrike Techert)
Alexander Filyuta (Lyrik im Ausland, Germany), Inga Bodnarjuka (Orbita, Latvia), Vera Kurlenina (hochroth, Germany), Ana Pejovic (Krododil Festival, Serbia) (© Ulrike Techert)
Alexander Filyuta (Lyrik im Ausland, Germany), Inga Bodnarjuka (Orbita, Latvia), Vera Kurlenina (hochroth, Germany), Ana Pejovic (Krododil Festival, Serbia) (© Ulrike Techert)

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