Literature telephone
A literature telephone is a form of the telephone announcement service that offers callers a completed story, often read by the author. Well-known authors such as Günter Grass , Siegfried Lenz , Sarah Kirsch or Peter Härtling have made their own works or excerpts available to the public via a literature telephone. Other names of the format are reading telephone, poetry telephone, poet telephone.
Literature hotline Kiel
In Germany, the first literature telephone in Kiel was initiated by Michael Augustin , who began in March 1978 to make poems and short stories available via an answering machine . Since then, over 1500 individual articles have been published. Under the telephone number 0431 / 901-8888 (formerly -1156) it can still be reached with weekly changing contributions. The author Feridun Zaimoglu read from his novel “Leyla” until the end of March 2007. After that, the oldest literature telephone in Germany should be closed. But now the city of Kiel has handed it over to private hands. Since April 2, 2007, the Kieler Literaturtelefon can be reached again under the above number - also on the Internet.
The new operators of the Kiel Literature Telephone are Patrick Kruse and Björn Högsdal from the cultural agency assemble ART and the Kiel journalist and author Jörg Meyer.
Worldwide
The " Dial-A-Poem " project, initiated by John Giorno in the context of the New York artist Andy Warhol in the 1960s, is considered to be the world's first literary telephone .
See also
- Matthyas Jenny , initiator