Brandenburg Literature Office

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Villa Quandt on the Pfingstberg in Potsdam

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.

literature

  • Michael Wüstefeld: The Voices of the Poets , in: Signum (7), Heft 2 (2006), pp. 144–146, ISSN  1438-9355

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