Brandenburg Literature Office
The Brandenburg Literature Office supports literary work in the state of Brandenburg in its various forms by organizing readings, presenting exhibitions and issuing publications on the literary history of the region.
The literary office was founded in 1994 and is based in Potsdam and operates nationwide. The agency for the literature office is the Association of Brandenburgische Literaturlandschaft eV (chairman is the journalist Jürgen Israel ). It is a support association for literature , not an interest group of authors. The Brandenburg Literature Office is funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg. In October 2007, the Office together with the Theodor Fontane Archive the Villa Quandt on the Pfingstberg related.
Readings
Every year around 50 to 60 readings take place in cooperation with libraries, theaters, publishers, bookshops, galleries and museums in various locations in the state of Brandenburg . In recent years, numerous important authors have read at the invitation of the Brandenburg Literature Office, including Louis Begley , Joachim Fest , Jewgeni Jewtuschenko , Czesław Miłosz , Cees Nooteboom and others. a. m.
Round table Sanssouci
The Brandenburg Literature Office in Potsdam has been organizing the Round Table Sanssouci event series in the Neue Kammern Palace since 2001 , to which it invites prominent guests to discuss basic issues of the time. Guests were here u. a. Nobel laureates in literature Imre Kertész , Peter Wapnewski , Władysław Bartoszewski and Walter Kempowski .
Literary exhibitions
Since 1995, the Brandenburg Literature Office has presented exhibitions on the literary history of the region at larger intervals, which were shown in Potsdam and various other cities:
- On the day of my departure. Peter Huchel (1903-1981) (1995)
- At the end of the biography. Günter Eich (1907–1972) (2000)
- Ernst Haeckel , Art Forms of Nature (2001)
- Muses and Graces in the marrow. 750 Years of Literature in the State of Brandenburg (2002)
- "The Third Front". Literature in the State of Brandenburg 1930–1950 (2004)
- Goethe and the Mark Brandenburg (2006)
- End times Europe. A collective diary of French and German writers 1914–1918 (2008) (French parallel version: Le crépuscule de l'Europe: Journal commun d'écrivains français et allemands, 1914–1918)
- Childhood images. Everyday photography in Brandenburg since 1848 (2013)
- In the intermediate realm. The literary new beginning in Potsdam 1945–1950 (2015)
Literaturport.de
Since summer 2006, the Brandenburg Literature Office operates jointly with the Literary Colloquium in Berlin Literature Portal literature port to various aspects of the information of the history of literature and literary presence in Berlin and Brandenburg offer. literaturport was awarded the Grimme Online Award in 2008 .
Zeitstimmen.de diary portal
Since February 2010 the Brandenburg Literature Office has been running the Zeitstimmen portal together with the Kurt Tucholsky Literature Museum in Rheinsberg, which sees itself as an archive of everyday life for the Berlin-Brandenburg region. Here - in addition to literary texts and literary historical information on more than 3000 writers and their relationship to places in the region - above all private testimonies are presented: diaries, memories, photos and (in cooperation with the rbb) all episodes of the "Landschleicher" (about 1,200 short portraits of smaller towns in the state of Brandenburg since 1993). The content relates to over 2,000 locations in Brandenburg and Berlin. The pictures, diaries, memoirs and films can be researched by place, time, topic and originator.
Publications
Since 1995 the association has published nineteen books, mainly on topics of regional literary and contemporary history, as well as nine audio CDs.
- Imre Kertész , A Rejection. Book and CD for the Brandenburg Literature Prize, Potsdam, vacat 1995, ISBN 3-930752-07-7
- Peter Huchel . Life and work, with contributions by Wolf Biermann , Durs Grünbein , Michael Hamburger , Walter Jens , Reiner Kunze , Hans Mayer and Marcel Reich-Ranicki , Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig, Insel Verlag 1995 (Insel Taschenbuch 1805) (3rd edition 1996 ), ISBN 978-3-458-33505-4
- I stay with you in spirit. Texts and documents on the 100th birthday of Hermann Maaß, Berlin, Lukas Verlag 1997
- Who writes? Authors and translators in the state of Brandenburg, editing: Ursula Höntsch, Potsdam, Märkischer Verlag 1998, ISBN 3-931329-10-0
- Märkische poet landscape. An illustrated literary guide through the Mark Brandenburg, with contributions by Günter de Bruyn , Adolf Endler , Sarah Kirsch , Christian Graf von Krockow and Günter Kunert , Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 1998, ISBN 3-421-05165-8
- Resistance in Potsdam 1945-1989, Berlin, be.bra-Verlag 1999, ISBN 3-930863-50-2
- Günter Eich (1907–1972). After the end of the biography, Lukas Verlag 2000 (with audio CD), ISBN 3-931836-40-1
- Henning von Tresckow , I am what I was. Texts and documents, Berlin, Lukas Verlag 2001 (3rd edition 2005), ISBN 3-936872-44-9
- Erich Arendt . Poem Essay Conversation (Audio CD). Original recordings. With an autobiographical story, read by Christian Brückner , Potsdam, vacat 2003, ISBN 3-930752-26-3
- Muses and Graces in the marrow. A reading book, Berlin, Lukas Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-931836-68-1
- Muses and Graces in the marrow. A historical writer lexicon, Berlin, Lukas Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-931836-69-X Google book
- Muses and Graces in the marrow. Christian Brückner reads literature from Brandenburg, audio CD, Berlin 2002
- The Wagner Case - A Conversation [audio CD]. Imre Kertész in conversation with Peter Wapnewski, moderation: Albrecht Thiemann, Potsdam, vacat 2003, ISBN 3-930752-33-6
- The third front. Literature in Brandenburg 1930-1950, Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-936872-25-2
- Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg. A Fontane district with historical color photographs by Rudolf Hacke , vol. 1, vacat, Potsdam 2004, ISBN 3-930752-28-X
- Emmi Bonhoeffer . Essay Conversation Memory, Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2004 (3rd edition 2005, paperback edition, translation into Dutch), ISBN 3-936872-31-7
- Otto Sander reads Fontane, Potsdam, vacat 2004 (3rd edition 2006), ISBN 393075231X
- Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg. A Fontane breviary with historical color photographs by Rudolf Hacke , Vol. 2, Potsdam, vacat 2005, ISBN 3-930752-30-1
- Thomas Mann , Lübeck as a spiritual way of life, with historical color photos by Julius Hollos , Potsdam, vacat, 2005, ISBN 3-930752-39-5
- Christian Brückner reads Thomas Mann , Lübeck as a spiritual way of life, audio CD, Potsdam, vacat 2005, ISBN 3-930752-42-5
- Brandenburg Land of Literature. A guide to the state's literary memorials, Potsdam, vacat 2005, ISBN 3-930752-40-9
- Martina Gedeck reads "Letters to Recha" by Emmi Bonhoeffer . Audio CD 61:20 min. with original recordings by Emmi Bonhoeffer and booklet, Potsdam, vacat 2005, ISBN 3-930752-37-9
- Goethe and the Mark Brandenburg, with original contributions a. a. by Katharina Mommsen , Günter de Bruyn , Volkmar Hansen, Joachim Golz and Helga Schütz , Potsdam, vacat 2006, ISBN 3-930752-43-3
- Goethe and Zelter . A friendship in letters. Read by Christian Brückner and Otto Sander , audio CD, Potsdam, vacat 2006, ISBN 3-930752-44-1
- End times Europe. A collective diary of German-speaking writers, artists and scholars during the First World War, ed. by Peter Walther, with a preface by Walter Kempowski , Göttingen, Wallstein Verlag, 2008, 432 pages with 54 historical color photos, ISBN 3-8353-0347-3
- The Russians are there. Everyday War and New Beginning in 1945 in Diaries from Brandenburg, ed. by Peter Böthig and Peter Walther, Berlin, Lukas Verlag, 2010, with 47 historical color photographs, ISBN 978-3-86732-079-5
- Childhood images. Everyday photography in Brandenburg since 1848, ed. by Peter Walther, 294 pages with over 300 illustrations, Berlin, Lukas Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86732-149-5
literature
- Michael Wüstefeld: The Voices of the Poets , in: Signum (7), Heft 2 (2006), pp. 144–146, ISSN 1438-9355