Sehnsucht nach meiner Stimme – Romn*ja lesen ihre Textproduktionen

In the organizer's words:

In this special poetry reading, participants in a German and literacy course run by Rom e.V. present their texts. It takes courage to read your own texts in front of an unknown audience - and even more courage to write and read them in a language that has only recently been learned.

The texts deal with personal hopes, wishes and worries. The authors provide insights into the realities of their lives and open up new perspectives. Although they are currently learning the written language in a course, they already have a lot of the skills that are essential for writing poetry: the sound of words, beat, melody, rhythm and linguistic coherence and inconsistency. They know all this from songs and oral stories.

However, before they wrote longer texts, the course started with haikus, a Japanese form of poetry that contains short sentences and a specific syllable structure. This was later followed by longer prose texts, which many participants have already written in a condensed language.

Following the reading, we invite you to share and reflect.

Further information can be found here: Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum Cologne | DJELEM DJELEM