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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Fr.20Dez.202420:00Lettrétage in der Veteranenstraße 21, Admission 10 €
Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work)
FLINTA* Literature Night, Christmas Edition
(c) Ioana-Cristina Casapu The second edition of Girl, show me that body (of work) will present a Christmas special literature evening of 6 FLINTA* authors, artists and performers of migration background. The event comprises literary readings and performative poetry .
Berlin is a place of arrival and refuge for many immigrant authors - including women (cis and trans) and nonbinary people. Issues like identity and migration, the search for meaning, love and friendship, reintegration, sexual freedom, reproductive rights, and domestic violence concern many of them. Topics of gender equality and the reinvention of parental roles, as well as dealing with transgenerational trauma are added to this. Reflecting on these issues through the lens of their biographies unites the authors while highlighting differences in their artistic approaches and individual aesthetics.
In Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work), literature is an intimate room for reflection and an instrument of political-social activism, an artistic medium, and an attempt to communicate across heteronormative barriers. Above all, literature is a space for encounters beyond pigeonholing and mechanisms of exclusion. It provokes conversations about inclusion, diversity, and belonging in an open society, enabling people to dialogue respectfully.
The event is curated by the Romanian author and journalist Ioana Cristina Casapu, who has been intensively researching and working with migrant womxn in Germany for ten years. Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work) aims to give established authors and previously undiscovered literary talents with migration experience from Berlin's FLINTA* communities a public stage together. A further goal is to offer concrete workshops linking authors and the general public, including refugees, feminist activists, survivors of sexual violence, and the organizations in Berlin that support them, as well as other writers, policy-makers, and publishers- in the conviction that literature is a means to life for artists and visitors alike.Suggested dress code (not mandatory): because this event is on the 20st, we would love to see interpretations of the 20s (any twenties from the history of the world, non-limited to Weimar)
(c) privat Ruth Barber was born and grew up in a small dull town called Northampton in England. At the first opportunity she left for London where she studied and qualified as a criminal lawyer. She writes horror fiction and psychological thrillers to process the trauma of her day job. Her work examines moral dissonance within individuals and society, and our fear and revulsion at our own darkest impulses, bound together with a liberal dollop of black humour. She lived for five years in Berlin where many of her stories are set and also spent a number of years as a lawyer in the British Overseas Territory of Saint Helena. Her short story “Unfinished Business” was published in the anthology “Uncertainties VI” by Swan River Press in July 2023.
(c) privat Ioana-Cristina Casapu is a Romanian-born author of novels, essays, and poetry, as well as publications in over 30 anthologies and magazines in English, German, and Romanian. Communications director with 15 years of experience in cultural diplomacy and event design in Romania, Austria, Germany, and the USA. Through their ongoing writing and projects, they aim to honour the efforts of womxn who have fled traumatising circumstances to lead safer lives, find their own space in the world, and create a community that – in the words of Emily Dickinson – illuminates their experiences rather than seals them off. In 2024, they founded Girl, Show Me That Body (of Work), a series of literary and performance events hosted by Lettrétage, to promote the works of womxn writers and artists with a migration background in Berlin. This initiative seeks to bridge communication and experience, encouraging not only the consumption of experiences but also active participation, reflection, and action. Featured in DAZED, ELLE Romania, Thought Catalog, Berlin Art Parasites. They live and work in Berlin.
(c) Gintare Simutyte Fionnuala Kavanagh is a British author who specialises in social issues. She is working on a book about why her brother was radicalised by far-right ideology. Her other projects include a series of interviews about intimacy and a novel about an integration course. She has also published journalistic pieces on sex work, unemployment and identity in The Berliner and Lola Magazine. She has received funding for her writing projects from The Guerter Stifftung, the Berlin Senate, the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, the EU’s iPortunas mobility scheme, and the Arvon Foundation. Fionnuala likes to experiment with new ways of communicating her social commentary to new audiences. Discover extracts from her novel on bright green posters in Berlin.
(c) Boaz Arad Shlomit Lasky has been a relationship columnist for ‘Laisha,’ Israel’s leading women’s magazine since 2006. Originally from Tel Aviv, Berlin has been her home since 2010. Alongside writing, she guides tours in Berlin and works for German public news broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) as a voice over artist. Currently, Shlomit has an original series in development with UFA. She has received grants from the Israeli Film Fund and from the German National Film Fund (FFA) to develop original screenplays which were later optioned. Her short play, ‘The Imaginary Ex’, was selected for Zavta’s Short plays Festival (2011). She was awarded a grant from the Zurückgeben Foundation (Berlin, 2020) to develop her debut novel. Shlomit has an acting diploma from Beit-Zvi Academy of Performing Arts (Israel) and holds a masters in screenwriting from the University of the Arts, London (LCC).
(c) Noemi Veberic Noemi Veberic Levovnik is a multimedia, interdisciplinary artist from Slovenia, based in Berlin. She is currently focusing on poetry and performance, exploring erotic and embodied poetry, as well as LGBTQAI+ issues. Noemi's visual art and performance work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at venues such as MSUM (Museum of Contemporary Art of Slovenia), National Modern Gallery (Ljubljana, Slovenia), A+A Gallery in Venice, Humboldt Forum in Berlin, and many others. She has written several poetry collections, including Let My Pussy Speak, which she completed last year. She runs embodied writing workshops under the same name. Her work was published in Nothing Personal? Essays on Affect, Gender and Queerness, b_books, Berlin, 2023.
(c) privat Cemre Nur Öztürk
Originally from Istanbul, Cemre Nur Öztürk has lived in Berlin for 9 years. She writes poetry, prose and short stories. She organizes monthly creative writing workshops for women to encourage their creativity. She co-created two zine workshops in which participants explored the theme of dreaming and the connections between the heritage of witchcraft and modern feminism. As a result of these workshops, she co-edited the zines Dreaming Awake (2023) and Be The Witch They Cannot Burn (2024). She contributed to Dreaming Awake with her poem Hell is You, Uncle. Together with five FLINTA* migrant women from her writing community, she wrote Station to Station (2024), a collection of short stories in which Berlin subway lines were used as connecting elements in the stories. "Station to Station" was awarded the Thalia Storyteller 2024, Top Local Berlin Stories.We would like to point out that the lift in the building is unfortunately not working at the moment. For this reason, access is currently restricted. We would like to apologise for this.
Workshops & Infoabende
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Do.21Okt.2021Fr.22Okt.202111:00 UhrLiterarisches Colloquium Berlin, Am Sandwerder 5, 14109 Berlin-Wannsee, Teilnahme nach Voranmeldung
Enter Literature. Formen der Literaturpräsentation in Theorie und Praxis
Workshop des Exzellenzclusters "Temporal Communities. Doing Literature in a Global Perspective" in Kooperation mit der Lettrétage
Obwohl sich die Autor·innenlesung spätestens mit Etablieren der Literaturhäuser in den 1980er Jahren in Deutschland immer größerer Beliebtheit erfreut, wird sie im Gegensatz zu anderen, ebenfalls textbasierten Künsten aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht mit Zurückhaltung bedacht. Dabei geht die Lesung oft über die vermeintliche Abgeschlossenheit des Textes in Buchform hinaus, vor allem wenn es sich um performative und transdisziplinäre Spielarten von Literaturpräsentationen handelt. Verbunden mit dem Wahrnehmungswechsel vom Lesen zu einer das Lesen erweiternden Form durch Hören und Sehen sind Fragen nach der Medialität der Lesung und ihren Kontexten. In welchem Verhältnis stehen die Stimme und der Körper des/r Autors·in sowie andere mediale Dimensionen (Sound, Bilder, Video) zum Text und welche Auswirkungen hat das auf die Konzeption von Autor·innenschaft? Schreibt sich die Darbietung selbst in einen Text ein? Welche Rolle spielt das Publikum, also die reale Anwesenheit von Leser·innen für die Aufführung von Texten? Wenn sich die mediale Präsenz der Schrift auf Ton, Bild, Bewegung oder Aktion hin erweitert, wird das Interesse besonders auf die ästhetische Autonomie der Darbietung gelenkt. Kann die Lesung dann als genuine Erscheinungsform von Literatur, als eigenes Werkmedium gewertet werden?
Mit diesen und weiteren Fragen beschäftigt sich der zweitägige Workshop, dessen Ausgangspunkt die am Eröffnungsabend gezeigten künstlerischen Praktiken bilden. Die offene Diskussion zu einzelnen Themengebieten der Autor·innenlesung wird jeweils von wissenschaftlichen Impulsvorträgen und daran anschließenden Repliken der beteiligten Künstler·innen eingeleitet.
Eine Veranstaltung des Exzellenzclusters »Temporal Communities. Doing Literature in a Global Perspective« in Kooperation mit der Lettrétage und dem Collegium Hungaricum Berlin
Programm
Donnerstag, 21. Oktober 2021
10:15 – 10:45 Uhr
Ankunft und Check-in10:45 – 11:05 Uhr
Vorstellung Format und Ablauf und Einführung ins Gesamtthema
Lena Hintze, FU Berlin/EXC »Temporal Communities«11:05 – 12:05 Uhr
Dialogisches Panel (20 Min. Impuls + 5 Min. Replik + Diskussion):Ist jedes performte Gedicht eine Lyrik-Performance?
Anna Bers, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Martina Hefter12:05 – 13:00 Uhr
Pause13:00 – 14:00 Uhr
Dialogisches Panel (20 Min. Impuls + 5 Min. Replik + Diskussion): »Ausdruck macht Eindruck«. Über die Grenzen des Hörens hinaus - ein Versuch
Rebecka Dürr, Universität Hamburg, Forschungsprojekt „Poetry in the Digital Age“
Kinga Tóth14:00 – 15:00 Uhr
Dialogisches Panel (20 Min. Impuls + 5 Min. Replik + Diskussion): Fixiertes Sprechen als Aufführung: Akustische Literatur und elektroakustische Dichtung auf Speichermedien
Marc Matter, Universität Hamburg, Forschungsprojekt „Poetry in the Digital Age“
Carsten SchneiderFreitag, 22. Oktober 2021
10:00 – 10:30 Uhr
Ankunft & Check-in10:30 – 11:30 Uhr
Dialogisches Panel (20 Min. Impuls + 5 Min. Replik + Diskussion): Noch einmal: Wer spricht die Gedichtperformance? 10 Bemerkungen in lyrikologischer Tradition
Peer Trilcke, Universität Potsdam/EXC »Temporal Communities«
Mathias Traxler11:30 – 12:30 Uhr
Dialogisches Panel (20 Min. Impuls + 5 Min. Replik + Diskussion):
Eingehaust und stillgelegt. Der Körper der Leserin
Cornelia Ortlieb, FU Berlin/EXC »Temporal Communities«
Yevgenia Belorusets12:30 – 13:30 Uhr
Pause13:30 – 14:30 Uhr
Dialogisches Panel (20 Min. Impuls + 5 Min. Replik + Diskussion): Die Lesung als performative Praxis – Überlegungen zur Inszenierung von Autor·innenschaft und Gemeinschaft
Kai Padberg, FU Berlin/EXC »Temporal Communities«
Mara Genschel14:30 – 15:30 Uhr
AbschlussdiskussionTeilnahme nach Voranmeldung unter lena.hintze@fu-berlin.de