Small Talk - vom Versprechen der Poesie

In the organizer's words:

A moment of resistance to the given is inscribed in every literary text. This utopian opposition, this evocation of a future alternative, is a particular concern of poetry. Beyond their themes, poems always formulate an aesthetic potential for surplus, a "let it be different".

In Dagmar Leupold's current volume of poetry "Small Talk", the war in Ukraine and the way we deal with it, in the media or when traveling, take up a great deal of space. The poems are objections to a language of trivialization, to the jargon of lulling everyday life, to the forgetting of a terrible present. But they also pay tribute to the small everyday encounters that escape the gaze of the big picture.

On this evening, Dagmar Leupold reads from "Small Talk" and engages in a dialog with the Munich author Andrea Heuser.

Price information:

Tickets are only available from the Box Office of the Lyrik Kabinett.