Forum Literature Office

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The Forum Literature Office e. V. in Hildesheim is a regional support association for literature.

Creation of the association

As early as 1991, Jo Köhler had the first idea for a literature office in Hildesheim as a contact point for people who write, especially for authors who are just emerging or who are still unknown. Even then he was interested in new ways of communicating literature and the question of how literature can be brought to people.

In 1995, Koehler's ideas were implemented within the Kulturfabrik in the form of a literature department, initially as an open contact point for authors and in the form of a group of authors, in 1996 the implementation of the first own projects became possible and in 1999 the Forum Literature Office was founded as an independent registered association.

Contact point for authors

Previously unknown authors are supported in their search for public opinion and criticism. In addition to author advice, manuscript reviews are also offered.

Fields of activity

Literature in conversation

The association enables writers to exchange ideas about the aesthetics of the word, ways and detours, modes of action and the “fixed” idea of ​​writing under moderation in the context of literary talk events, such as the Open Circle of Authors in Hildesheim. Discuss writing, questions and answers from literary life. Since 1995 more than 900 writers have been guests at the events of the Forum Literature Office and have participated by and with the Forum Literature Office.

Competitions and publications

The association organizes the Hildesheim poetry competition, in which every writer can participate and makes nationwide tenders for projects and campaigns. The results of the award winners will be a. published on poetry posters in Hildesheim buses and public transport stops.

Offers for the elderly

There are also offers for older people who want to put their memories or individual events that particularly moved them into words and process them in writing.

Educational work

As part of extracurricular projects and in cooperation with schools, educational work is carried out by the Forum Literature Office.

Organizer advice

The association offers training and advice for bookstores, libraries, schools and cultural institutions of all kinds. The focus is on questions of organization, effective public relations and new ideas for forms of presentation and event concepts.

Agency work

The association brings together writers and potential organizers and has extensive contacts with writers of all genres, from poets to novelists, from storytellers to action artists.

Project work

The association designs concepts for cross-disciplinary art and literature projects (such as the Hildesheimer Lyrik-Park at Marienfriedhof).

Projects

The association became known nationwide through numerous model projects:

  • Poetry garden around the Villa Dyes in Hildesheim (1996, 1998)
  • Poetry columns (1999/2000)
  • Literature in local public transport (since 1996)
  • the school project "The Little Poets' Club" (2004)
  • Poetry competitions (almost every year since 1997)
  • the "egg of a thousand wishes ..." (1999/2000)
  • Lyrik-Park at Marienfriedhof (2008, 2010, 2012)
  • Bookmarks (2009, 2011, 2014, 2017)
  • the senior citizen project "Memories" (2009)
  • Poetry Kids (2013, 2015, 2018)
  • Die Literatur-Apotheke , an online forum for the exchange of information about the effectiveness of literature, which tries to establish a "democratic" form of literature evaluation (2016)
  • as part of this: Literature competition "Between the lines ..." (2017)
  • "Over Borders", a literature project for immigrants and displaced persons (2016)
  • "Which Heimat": biographical narrative project (2018)

photos

  • The egg of a thousand wishes (1999/2000)

  • Installation by Alexandra Vigh at the Lyrik-Park 2008 at the Marienfriedhof in Hildesheim

  • Bookmark at the Andreas Church in Hildesheim, 2009

  • Bookmark at a bus stop in the middle of Hildesheim, 2009

  • A physical realization of the "Literature Pharmacy" at the Magdalenenfest 2016 in the Magdalenengarten in Hildesheim

  • Bookmark at Hildesheim Central Station, 2017

  • Jo Köhler at the presentation of the artistic works that were created as part of the Poetry Kids Workshops 2015

  • The winners of the Hildesheim Literature Competition 2017 under the motto "Between the Lines ..."

Employing artists

  • Christian Prenzler (sculptor)
  • Manfred Hausin (poet)
  • Roger Willemsen (Hamburg, writer)
  • Renan Demirkan (actress and author)
  • Elias O. Dunu (Nigeria, poet and storyteller)
  • Vyacheslav Kupriyanov (Moscow, poet)
  • Irith Gabriely (Klezmer Queen)
  • Hans-Jürgen Lenhart (Frankfurt, sound poet)
  • Gerhard Kreuzer (songwriter)
  • Christian Zatloukal (noise and world musician)
  • Karola Mittelstaedt (wood designer)
  • Lars H. Beuse and Christine S. Thon (Greenhouse of Remembrance, Cologne, media artist)
  • Michael Mahla (Worms, typokineticist)
  • Ingo Cesaro (poet and printer's workshop)
  • Michael Martin (Munich, desert photographer and explorer)
  • Jean Györy (Brussels, writer from Group 47)
  • Imre Maté (Budapest, poet and philosopher in the Hungarian resistance)
  • Anita Lasker-Wallfisch (London, cellist in the Auschwitz Orchestra)
  • Prof. Dr. Paul U. Innocence (medical historian)
  • Dieter Hildebrandt (cabaret artist)
  • Zhang Hai'ou (Beijing, pianist)
  • Uwe Steimle (Dresden, actor and cabaret artist)
  • Julian Dawson (London, rock poet)

Awards

Jo Köhler, initiator of the association, was awarded the AusLese 1997 successor to Ulrich Wickert for his work as a concept and project artist by the Reading Foundation in Mainz under the patronage of Federal President Roman Herzog .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The winners of the Reading Promotion Prize of the Reading Foundation for innovative ideas and committed people (PDF; 215 kB)