Seit 2006 finden in der Lettrétage ca. 120 öffentliche Literaturveranstaltungen jährlich statt – Lesungen, Workshops, Diskussionsrunden, literarische Performances und Formate dazwischen. Bekannte und unbekannte Autor*innen und Künstler*innen verschiedener Sprachen und Nationalitäten sind hier schon aufgetreten.
Seit 2013 liegt der Programmfokus u.a. auf neuen Wegen der literarischen Präsentation und Live-Produktion: Dazu zählen u.a. die internationalen bzw. transnationalen Literaturfestivals „Soundout!“, „¿Comment!“, „Berlinisi“ und „Syn_Energy“, aber auch das viel beachtete Netzwerkprojekt „CROWD“ und multimediale Projekte wie die Reihe „CON_TEXT“ oder das „Poetry Audio Lab“. Eine vollständige Liste der Lettrétage-Projekte finden Sie hier.
Als Ankerinstitution für die freie Literaturszene Berlins stellt die Lettrétage außerdem ihre Räume für Literaturveranstaltungen aller Art zur Verfügung. Zahlreiche freie Veranstalter*innen nutzen unsere Infrastruktur regelmäßig – für Literatur-Workshops, Lesereihen in verschiedenen Sprachen und Buchpräsentationen. Mehr zu den Möglichkeiten der kostenlosen Raumnutzung erfahren Sie hier.
Auf dieser Seite präsentieren wir einen nicht vollständigen Einblick in unser vergangenes Programm.
Veranstaltungen
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Sa15Jul202320:00Eintritt: 6,-
Antioch as a Metaphor – Ways of Losing a City
A documentary by Adar Bozbağ
(c) Adar Bozbay Unfortunately Aslı Erdoğan won't be able to take part in the event as planned. Instead the documentary "Incomplete Sentences" by Adar Bozbağ will be shown this evening.
"Incomplete Sentences" is a feature documentary on Erdoğan’s literature and life story that lead to a life in exile. She left Turkey after being unlawfully detained as a result of current government’s increasing pressure on journalists.
The event aims to explore the allure of lost, destroyed, and vanished cities across different cultures and time periods. It will be an evening filled with evocative literary readings that capture the essence of these forgotten, destroyed, and desecrated areas, transporting the audience to the haunting landscapes of a necropolis. Whether it’s through exile, the aftermath of an earthquake, a lost paradise, or an inferno, the texts delve into the various forms of losing a city, seeking to answer burning questions such as: How do cities persist within the bodies of those in exile? How do cities continue to echo in a Wasteland?
The event will feature a conversation between Aslı Erdoğan and Çağla Arıbal, along with readings from Erdoğan's book titled THE STONE BUILDING AND OTHER HOUSES, which has been translated into German as REQUIEM FÜR EINE VERLORENE STADT.
(c) Carole ParodiAslı Erdoğan is a writer of literature and columnist, human rights defender, ex political prisoner as well as a particle physicist. She is the author of eight books, novels, novellas, collections of poetic prose and essays, translated into more than twenty languages. She was arrested in 2016 for her collaboration with the pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgür Gündem. Aslı Erdoğan has received several prizes in literature and human rights such as Sait Faik Award, Simone de Beauvoir Award, Karl Tucholsky Award, Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize, Vaclav Havel Library Foundation Award, Chevalier des Arts et Lettres among others. Her work has been adapted into theater and acted in Milan, Graz and Avignon, into classical ballet, radio, a short film and finally opera.
(c) privat Sam Gilchrist Hall obtained his doctorate in English Literature from the University of London in 2015. Currently, he works as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Experimental Humanities at the Central European University, Vienna. He has published widely on Exilliteratur, folly, degeneracy, political theology, and illiberalism. Notable creative works include his novella INSIDE VIRGIL CAINE (Eukalypto: forthcoming), which focuses on displacement, and THE BACHMANN TAPES. Currently, he is working on a collection of short stories, entitled KANTWURST.
(c) Carleen Coulter Tracy Fuad, born in 1989 in Minneapolis, currently resides in Berlin. Her first poetry collection, ABOUT:BLANK, was selected by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 2020 Donald Hall Prize. Her works have been featured in publications such as "The Paris Review," "POETRY Magazine," and "Yale Review," among others, and have been translated into Spanish and Kurdish.
The event is produced and moderated by the writer Çağla Arıbal.
Workshops & Infoabende
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Sa08Jun2019So09Jun201910:30 - 16:30Beitrag: 150€
Telling Tales: The Art of Creating Stories
Workshop mit Roy MacLean
Stories can entrance, engage, even possess us. Every one of us has a story to tell; factual or fictional, cool documentary or heartfelt family journey, practical travelogue or sparkling flight of the imagination. But to become an accomplished storyteller one needs time, a conducive environment, and a sensitive guide to direct and refine individual talent.
In June best-selling author Rory MacLean will lead an exclusive, two-day creative non-fiction writing workshop in Berlin. Participants will be guided and supported on their creative journey. Both amateur and professional writers are invited to join. No experience is necessary. The only requirement is the passion to tell a story.
The course will include morning talks on the craft of narration and introductory workshops on gathering material, note-taking, voice and structure. Rory will underline the importance of writing from the heart, using honesty and personal experience to fill one’s creative work with feeling and excitement. Afternoons will be dedicated to exercises and, if possible, one-to-one discussions or project pitches, helping to draw out individual skills. Together Rory and the participants will unpick the transformation of our ordinary encounters, epic journeys, family histories and imaginative quests into prose. Whether you aspire to writing journalism, a blog, memoir, personal essay or documentary, take this rare opportunity to work with one of the Reader’s favourite writers and most popular tutors.
Rory MacLean is the author of more than a dozen books including the UK top tens "Stalin’s Nose" and "Under the Dragon" as well as "Berlin: Imagine a City", a book of the year and ‘the most extraordinary work of history I’ve ever read’ according to the Washington Post. His works – wrote the late John Fowles – are among those that ‘marvellously explain why literature still lives’. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he divides his time between the UK, Canada and Berlin.
To sign up please email hello@thereaderberlin.com. All of the info is available here.