Prosanova (Hildesheim)

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Prosanova is a festival for young German-language literature , initiated and hosted by the Hildesheim literary magazine BELLA triste . The Prosanova, like the BELLA triste, has its roots in the Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism course of the Literature Institute at the University of Hildesheim . However, the Prosanova is now organized independently of the Hildesheim Literature Institute.

Prosanova 2005 presented more than fifty authors of the younger generation in more than 20 events, including Uwe Tellkamp , Thomas Meinecke , Terézia Mora , Susanne Heinrich , Saša Stanišić and Frank Spilker from the band Die Sterne . In 2008 it took place in the abandoned factory halls of Phoenix AG , Moritzberg , in 2011 on a barracks in Hildesheim and in 2014 in the secondary school on the Alter Markt and the surrounding buildings. In 2017 the festival was held on the site of an old iron hall and a disused supermarket. The guests included Fatma Aydemir and Juan S. Guse .

The next Prosanova will take place in 2020.

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Prosanova wants to present contemporary German literature in its areas of tension. That is why the festival presents both established writers and previously unpublished authors. In addition to traditional reading formats, concerts and panel discussions, staged readings , live radio plays and a Prosanova literature competition are also held as part of the festival . The final texts of this competition as well as essays on the respective festival theme will be presented in a Prosanova special edition by BELLA triste to be published for the festival .

Prosanova 2005

“The literary present is blooming” was the motto of the first Prosanova festival, which took place from May 26th to 29th, 2005 in Hildesheim. Under the motto “seeds and wild growth”, the ability to teach and learn literary writing was discussed: the subjects and poetics of literary autodidacts like Uwe Tellkamp were contrasted with the work of writing school graduates like Mariana Leky or Saša Stanišić , always with the question of how much craft good storytelling needs, and whether the greenhouse atmosphere of the literary institute encourages young storytelling or rather paralyzes it.

Guests and reading formats

"The 21st Century", the large two-part main event of Prosanova 2005, presented five authors with five books that are formative for young storytelling of the present: Jenny Erpenbeck with "Tand" from 2001, Henning Ahrens with "Lauf Jägerlauf" by 2002, Tilman Rammstedt with “Erledungen vor der Feier” from 2003, Terézia Mora with “Alle Tage” from 2004 and the Bachmann Prize winner Uwe Tellkamp with “Der Eisvogel” from 2005.

“Saat und Wildwuchs” confronted the two writing school graduates Mariana Leky and Sünje Lewejohann with the autodidact Andreas Maier and questioned the writing school discourse of the feature pages .

In “Writing for Millions” Frank Spilker from the band Die Sterne and Christiane Rösinger , singer of the bands Lassie Singers and Britta, discussed pop and poetry from the Hamburg School with the intro editors Linus Volkmann and Sonja Eismann .

The "Laubenrausch" played on a large Hildesheim allotment garden colony with parallel readings by 12 authors who received their listeners for one afternoon in their own little gazebo: Nora Bossong , Stephan Turowski , Saša Stanišić and several students and graduates of the writing schools in Hildesheim and Leipzig .

Other authors: Jörg Albrecht , Bas Böttcher , Tanja Dückers , Finn-Ole Heinrich , Susanne Heinrich , Anja Hilling , Björn Kuhligk , Raphael Urweider , Thomas Meinecke , Thomas Pletzinger , Steffen Popp , Kathrin Röggla , Tina Uebel and Kevin Vennemann .

Prosanova 2008

“Poetry and Position” was the motto of the second festival, which took place from May 22nd to 25th, 2008. Under the motto intersections and differences in the writing approaches and poetics of the youngest generation of authors were discussed.

Guests and reading formats

In February 2008 Prosanova invited ten young authors to a workshop closed to the public (including Jörg Albrecht, Ann Cotten , Daniela Danz , Jagoda Marinic , Thomas Pletzinger , Steffen Popp ). They presented their literary works and positions in “Poetry and Position”, the large two-part main event.

“Pop and Position” brought Christian Kracht and Mercedes Bunz together for a conversation about the world of pop and media, while “Politics and Position” brought Marcel Beyer , Alexander Osang and Robert Thalheim to talk about their workshops. In the “Fern Montage”, Jo Lendle , Uwe Tellkamp and Anne Weber spoke about literature and the world of work.

Other items on the program were poetry (“Lyrikblitze”), scenic reading (“Dramenspeicher”), the next generation (“Höhenlinien”), music (“Krachgut”) and the literary event (“Nachtblende”).

Other authors: Finn-Ole Heinrich , Hanns-Josef Ortheil , Kristof Magnusson , Ulrike Almut Sandig , Christian Schloyer , Ron Winkler , Ulf Stolterfoht , Thomas von Steinaecker , Harriet Köhler , Selim Özdogan u. a.

Prosanova 2011

The third Prosanova Festival took place from May 26th to 29th, 2011: Under the motto “Literature as an Event”, emphasis was placed on innovative reading formats.

Prosanova 2014

The fourth Prosanova Festival took place from May 29 to June 1, 2014. Around 120 artists appeared in over 40 reading formats. The focus here was on the literary lifestyle of the invited authors. Readings, presentations and discussions revolved around the questions of what literature should achieve and how one can live with it.

Guests and reading formats

In the Prosanova 2014 program there were no main events titled as such. In addition to established formats such as the literary football game and the breakfast that started the day of the festival, the festival was characterized by a mixture of invited groups who presented formats developed for Prosanova, and readings and discussions developed especially for Prosanova. Invited guests included Clemens Meyer , Wolfram Lotz , Leif Randt , Svealena Kutschke , Jan Brandt , Dorothee Elmiger , Jo Lendle , Saša Stanišić and Thomas Pletzinger .

Prosanova 2017

The fifth Prosanova took place from 8-11. June 2017 in the northern part of Hildesheim on the site of an old iron hall and a disused supermarket. A program with more than 80 artists was organized under the theme "MATERIAL, PROCESS and PROTOCOLS".

Guests and reading formats

The focus this year was particularly on less established ones, e.g. T. unpublished authors. Invited guests included Fatma Aydemir , Shida Bazyar , Juan S. Guse , Florian Kessler , Anke Stelling , Margarete Stokowski and Bettina Wilpert .

In 2017, an Arist-in-Residence program was set up as a new item on the agenda, which sees itself as a forum for young authors' own texts and topics. In the run-up to the festival, the AiR program offered workshops and text workshops that were specially designed for the AiR authors. At the festival they presented their texts as part of the program. In addition, there were lecture performances, readings, translations, installations, concerts, staging facilities, the awarding of the Ingebach-Borgmann Prize in which the Berlin reading series Kabeljau & Dorsch was awarded the prize for the best German-language literary prize in a public jury discussion. There was a programmed night hike, taxi rides with authors, lectures, text adventures and discussions.

A special edition of BELLA triste was published for the festival, in which the festival is documented, reflected on and evaluated.

literature

  • BELLA triste 48, special edition for Prosanova, Hildesheim 2017.
  • Hanns-Josef Ortheil : The great festival of writing. Records from the Prosanova literary festival. Glück and Schiller, Hildesheim 2005, ISBN 3-938404-05-1 .
  • Misc .: A prosanovela . Edition Paechterhaus, Hildesheim 2008, ISBN 978-3-941392-05-2

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ artists ° inside | timetable | air | school program. Retrieved on May 16, 2019 (German).

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