Poetry by the river
Lyrik am Fluss was an international literature festival on the banks of the Limmat , which began in 1994 as a poetic reading series and developed into "one of the most important literary events in Zurich " .
history
Lyrik am Fluss began in 1995 as a poetic neighborhood festival in the Zurich-Wipkingen community center. The initiator was Rose-Marie Uhlmann, who was responsible for organizing the reading series until 2001. In 2002, the author collective index took over the direction and developed the series of events into a literature festival with international appeal.
From 2003 the events took place in the Badi Unterer Letten directly on the banks of the Limmat and were staged as a "special kind of literary experience ": "Poetry, urban landscape and visual design should work together and make the occasion a sensual event." In fact, the setting was extraordinary: "The author is sitting on a footbridge in the middle of the river, the distance to the audience is bridged by a wireless microphone and two screens that simultaneously put the poet's mouth in perspective."
However, the rapid growth of the festival meant that the organizational effort took on a level that those responsible no longer wanted to do in addition to their own artistic work. Therefore, the successful festival was not continued after 2005.
program
The programming was based on the principle of presenting renowned authors alongside young talent. Only a part of her works could be assigned to the genre of poetry. Rather, the term in the title of the event should emphasize the special poetic charm of the venue.
2002
- Mr. Thiel and Mr. Sassine and Schön & Gut
- Michael Lentz and Onophon
- Simone Ohne & Tina Licht, RC Koechli, Marc Rychener & DJ Spy.
2003
- Urs Allemann and Catalin Dorian Florescu
- Pedro Lenz and Patrik Neuhaus , Katharina Faber , Ulrike Ulrich and Werner Rohner
- Oskar Pastior and Christian Uetz .
2004
- Judith Hermann and Marc Rychener
- Ruth Schweikert , Jörg Piringer, Lea Gottheil and Tanja Kummer
- Peter Stamm , Guy Krneta , Jan Theiler , Melinda Nadj Abonji and Jurczok 1001 .
2005
- Gert Jonke , Jens Petersen , Eleonore Frey
- Hugo Loetscher , Annette Mingels , Renate Leukert
- Jaap Blonk , Michael Stauffer , Tanja Kummer .
Organizing Committee
- 1994–2001: Rose-Marie Uhlmann
- 2002–2005: artist collective index , responsible:
- Andreas Heusser
- Cornelia Heusser
- Marc Rychener
- Mauro Guarise
- Nicolas Häberli
- Pascal Bosshard
The change in program management took place after the later index members Andreas Heusser, Marc Rychener, Cornelia Heusser and Marco Baumgartner appeared at the sixth edition of Lyrik am Fluss with a joint multimedia performance (harmoNie) .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Susanne Ostwald: Wortschäumend. For the tenth time, the lyrics bubbled by the river. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . June 29, 2004.
- ↑ (a) Christine Weder: Polierte Poesie. Lyrik am Fluss under a new direction. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. August 14, 2002; (b) Alexandra Kedves: Knowledge shocks . Lyrik am Fluss with the author Gert Jonke. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. August 23, 2005; (c) Gieri Cavelty : watermarks of poetry. In: züritipp ( Tages-Anzeiger ). August 25, 2005
- ↑ a b Philipp Gut : Experience of the Senses. 10 years of poetry by the river. In: züritipp (Tages-Anzeiger). July 29, 2004 (cover story).
- ↑ Philipp Gut: Great moments about the flow of language in Letten. In: Tages-Anzeiger. August 18, 2003.
- ↑ Benedikt Schaerer: Young, gentle, personable. Love in summer, tender and bright and packed with multimedia: For the sixth time, poetry by the river. In: Tages-Anzeiger. August 15, 2000.