Gans Verlagsabend – mit Lyrik

In the organizer's words:

Celebrate poetry with us in a wide variety of forms - look forward to great texts, beautiful books and the most entertaining authors. We will read and discuss poems about utopia, fatherhood, love, frippery and the honor of craftswomen!

Carl-Christian Elze will read from the new edition of his volume "ich lebe in einem wasserturm am meer, was albern ist", first published in 2013. Here it tingles and weaves and touches. Poems that are as tender as they are exuberant.

In his new volume of poetry "Geisternetze",Sascha Kokot depicts his city of Leipzig and writes about waiting for a child and ideas of fatherhood.

Mathias Traxler practices the frippery with "Restaurant & Orchestre Touché" and us, checks the sound of the words, puts them next to the gold scales and asks: Does the frippery have the refrain to create stability in life?

After three slots, there's a break.

Then Björn Hayer, Agnieszka Lessmann, Alexander Graeff and Alexander Kappe present their anthology of contemporary utopian poetry: "Out of a sheltered corner / you let the space emerge".

And as the cherry on the cake, Undine Materni and Ruth Habermehl honor the wonderful, creative women in craft professions with poems and collages.