Ein Ort der Poesie: Anderland VI

In the organizer's words:

"Anderland", Cologne's poetry festival, is taking place for the 6th time this fall. Poetry takes center stage on two evenings (November 3 and 4). Today's guests at Cologne City Library are Marica Bodrožić, Kerstin Hensel and Norbert Hummelt.

We are celebrating Ernst Jandl's 100th birthday - the first evening is dedicated to the Viennese poet and inventor of concrete poetry. To coincide with the anniversary, a book in Jandl's honor is being published, in which well-known contemporary authors present their favorite texts, three of which we have invited to Cologne: Kerstin Hensel, Marica Bodrožić and Norbert Hummelt will talk about Jandl's influence on their work and read his poems.

Ernst Jandl was born in Vienna in 1925. After school, military service and being a prisoner of war, he studied German and English language and literature. While working as a secondary school teacher, he began to write and publish poetry. His work has been awarded many prestigious prizes.

Marica Bodrožić was born in Dalmatia in 1973. She writes poems, novels, short stories and essays, which have been translated into over sixteen languages. She has received numerous awards for her work to date, most recently the Walter Hasenclever Literature Prize, the Manès Sperber Literature Prize for her complete works and the Irmtraud Morgner Prize.

Kerstin Hensel was born in Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1961. She is considered one of the most versatile and influential representatives of contemporary German literature. Her work includes poetry, novels and short stories. In 2015, she was elected Deputy Director of the Literature section at the Akademie der Künste Berlin. She now teaches at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Norbert Hummelt was born in Neuss in 1962 and lives as a freelance writer in Berlin. He was awarded the Rainer Malkowski Prize in 2021 for his lyrical oeuvre. He translated T. S. Eliot's poetry cycles "The Waste Land" and "Four Quartets" into German and is the editor of W. B. Yeats' poems.

The events take place in cooperation with the Literatur-in-Köln Archiv (LiK), the Bittner bookshop and the Institute for German Language and Literature I at the University of Cologne.

Price information:

Admission costs 12 euros, concessions 10 euros. A combined ticket for both evenings costs 18 euros, concessions 15 euros. Tickets are available in advance from the Bittner bookshop by telephone on 0221 / 2574870 or by e-mail. Remaining tickets may be available at the Box Office.