Literaturhaus Berlin
The Literaturhaus Berlin is a public institution of the cultural promotion of the State of Berlin and offers the public information and exchange opportunities through readings , book presentations, symposia , discussions, lectures, conferences, performances and exhibitions. The Literaturhaus at Fasanenstrasse 23 in the Berlin district of Charlottenburg is a historicist villa with a winter garden , restaurant and several halls. There are several cultural institutions in the vicinity such as the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum , a representative office of the Suhrkamp-Verlag , the Haus der Berliner Festspiele , the University of the Arts and the Institute for Media and Communication Policy .
tasks and activities
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The founding director from 1986 to 2003 was the cultural manager and literary scholar Herbert Wiesner (born 1937). It was opened in June 1986 as the first of a series of literature houses in Hamburg , Frankfurt a. M. and Munich founded. His most important tasks include the introduction and thus the indirect promotion of German-speaking and international authors as well as the presentation of literary contexts and backgrounds. Its program reflects the history of literary modernism , its conflicts in contemporary history, as well as literary- political and aesthetic issues in contemporary international literature . In 2004 the poet Ernest Wichner took over the management of the house. At the end of 2017, he left for reasons of age.
Since January 1, 2018, the literary scholar Janika Gelinek and the Americanist and art historian Sonja Longolius have been running the Literaturhaus Berlin as dual heads.
The Literaturhaus Berlin is run by an association to which literary institutions belong. The grants from the State of Berlin are supplemented by income, project funds and collaborations. There is also a membership association of friends and sponsors.
Every year, in addition to around 140 own events, numerous guest events take place in the Literaturhaus Berlin. The “Texts from the Literaturhaus Berlin” available in bookstores are part of the literary production: commissioned theater plays and radio plays, exhibition books, and text editions. The Literaturhaus Berlin published the artist books of Edition Mariannenpresse until 2008 and awards the Walter Serner Prize together with the Kulturradio from RBB .
The sponsorship of the house is a member of the literaturhaus.net network , whose jury has been awarding the Prize of Literature Houses together with its partners since 2002 .
The “Café Wintergarten” restaurant is also located in the historic premises of the building and is mostly visited by a culturally open-minded public. In summer, the idyllic gardens, which have been restored in accordance with the preservation of historical monuments, are also managed outside.
building
The building in which the Literaturhaus resides in the immediate vicinity of Kurfürstendamm belongs to the State of Berlin and is part of the winter garden ensemble , which consists of three representative city villas and the sculpture garden that connects them. It was built in 1889/1890 as a late classical brick building for the Hildebrandt couple by the architects Albrecht Becker and Emil Schlueter.
At the end of the 1920s, the house came into the possession of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation , which housed foreign students there. After it was used as a disco and brothel at the same time, it was initially planned to demolish the house in favor of a feeder for the city motorway , which prevented a citizens' initiative. The listed building has been used as a literary house since it was acquired by the State of Berlin and extensive repairs and renovations in 1986.
See also
Web links
- Literaturhaus Berlin
- Literaturhaus Berlin - A “waiting room for poetry” with a winter garden and illustrious neighbors , berlin.de
- Network of literature houses
- Entries in the Berlin State Monument List:
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 7.6 " N , 13 ° 19 ′ 36.3" E