Poetry Cabinet
The Lyrik Kabinett is a reading society of friends and lovers of poetry in Munich . It has existed as an association since 1994 and as a foundation since 2003 . The Lyrik Kabinett Foundation promotes poetry and its communication. As a forum dedicated exclusively to poetry, the Munich Lyrik Kabinett is unique in Germany in this form. At the international level, the Lyrik Kabinett corresponds to the poetry centers in other countries, such as the National Poetry Library in London.
Lyrik Kabinett Munich / Lyrik Kabinett Foundation
The association and foundation owe themselves to the private patronage initiative of Ursula Haeusgen (* 1942), the chairwoman of the foundation. Her donation of a collection of poetry volumes from all over the world, artist books, rare first editions as well as selected secondary and reference literature was initially the basis of an association, from 2003 to the Lyrik Kabinett Foundation. After Ursula Haeusgen had a new library building built in 2004 (on a piece of land made available by LMU), the Lyrik Kabinett moved into these rooms in spring 2005; This is where the events take place, surrounded by works of contemporary art. The management of the Lyrik Kabinett was taken over by Maria Gazzetti from 2012 to the end of 2013, with Holger Pils on January 1, 2014.
Library
The Lyrik Kabinett maintains the second largest lyric library in Europe with currently around 65,000 media: German-language and international poetry, including numerous high-quality artist books, audio and video media, around 50 magazines on subscription, etc. The library is systematically increased by approx 2000 units have been expanded and are open to everyone. It can be accessed and consulted through an electronic catalog. The holdings can also be researched using the Bavarian Union Catalog.
Events
The foundation organizes around 45 events on international poetry each year (around 1,500 by mid-2019): readings with contemporary poets from all over the world and events on authors from ancient times to the 20th century . About half are readings by authors, the other half present authors from earlier epochs who “stayed alive”. German and foreign language authors are represented in roughly equal proportions. The readings by foreign language authors are usually bilingual. The readings are preceded by a brief introduction.
For spoken word art, the Lyrik Kabinett offers the Poetry in Motion forum once a month . For this purpose, the library rooms are being transformed into a lounge landscape with barbies and disco balls. Ko Bylanzky will moderate the series. All readings are documented by recordings.
There are also discussion events on poetry - such as the series Das Lyrischen Quartett - or conferences and the like. Ä.
Poets who have already read in the Lyrik Kabinett: Ilse Aichinger ; Andreas Altmann ; HC Artmann ; John Ashbery ; Marcel Beyer ; Yves Bonnefoy ; Ann Cotten ; Inger Christensen ; Robert Creeley ; Max Czollek ; At Dao ; Heinrich Detering ; Hilde Domin ; Ralph Dutli ; Elke Erb ; Durs Grünbein ; Robert Gernhardt ; Michael Guttenbrunner ; Harald Hartung ; Seamus Heaney ; Philippe Jaccottet ; Friederike Mayröcker ; Wulf Kirsten ; Sarah Kirsch ; Barbara Koehler ; Jean Krier ; Mario Luzi ; Thomas Kling ; Michael Krüger ; Tristan Marquardt ; Christoph Meckel ; Ernst Master ; Les Murray ; Dagmar Nick ; Cees Nooteboom ; Oskar Pastior ; Marion Poschmann ; Monika Rinck ; Tuvia Rübner ; Edoardo Sanguineti ; Ernst Schönwiese ; Raoul scrap ; Ilana Shmueli ; Charles Simic ; Ludwig Steinherr ; Ulf Stolterfoht ; Anja Utler ; Dirk von Petersdorff ; Achim Wagner ; Jan Wagner ; Derek Walcott ; Ulyana Wolf ; Adam Zagajewski ; Andrea Zanzotto ; Rosemarie Zens .
A list of the poets who have already been guests in the Lyrik Kabinett can be researched on the Foundation's homepage.
Editing
The foundation publishes selected poetic or poetological works in various series:
- The so-called blue books appear in irregular succession . H. Publications that grow out of the readings (so far approx. 21 volumes).
- In the Edition Poetry Cabinet by Hanser published since 2006, two to four volumes of poetry a year, many of them bilingual. The series is currently edited by Ursula Haeusgen, Michael Krüger, Piero Salabè and Raoul Schrott.
- The series of Munich speeches on poetry is devoted to poetological questions and at the same time documents the importance of poetry in various areas of contemporary culture. The speeches are given once or twice a year. They were founded by Ursula Haeusgen and Frieder von Ammon and are published by Holger Pils and Frieder von Ammon.
- The series Zwiesprachen documents the lively engagement of contemporary poets with international tradition; they are edited by Holger Pils and Ursula Haeusgen and are published by the publishing house Das Wunderhorn .
- The Zilpzalp poetry calendar has been published in the Lyrik Kabinett since 2015 . The calendar with 24 classical and contemporary poems is designed by students from the Staffelsee-Gymnasium in Murnau.
education
For over a decade, the Lyrik Kabinett has successfully carried out an educational model project Lust for Poetry in schools in Munich. It gives students creative access to poetry.
See also
Web link
Individual evidence
- ^ History of the Lyrik Kabinett. In: www.lyrik-kabinett.de. Retrieved July 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Börsenblatt.net: Holger Pils new managing director ( Memento from December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Library - Lyrik Kabinett Foundation. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
- ^ German Academy for Language and Poetry - Activities - Projects - The Lyrical Quartet. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
- ^ Author search - Stiftung Lyrik Kabinett. Retrieved June 30, 2019 .
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