stadtsprachen magazin - multilingual literature from Berlin

The new online magazine for the multilingual contemporary literary literature of Berlin celebrated its first release in April 2017. Berlin's living writers, who do not write their texts in German, are the focus of the city's language magazine. Presented at www.stadtsprachen.de will be 26 texts by 22 authors and more than 21 translators in 13 languages, from Arabic to Georgian to Yoruba! In the original and mostly with German translation the texts are also available in several languages like English, Spanish or French etc. 

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The author of the first edition of the city's language magazine: Rasha Abbas, Juhméké Bọlanle Adéyanju, Esther Andradi, Kevin Shih-Hung Chen, Dario Deserri, Dmitri Dragilev, The Dung, Federico Federici, Iunona Guruli, Andrej Hočevar, Tolgahan Kaftan, Kenan Khadaj , Göksu Kunak, Rafael Mantovani, Steve Mekoudja, Luísa Nóbrega, Denise Pereira, Elsye Suquilanda, Menekşe Toprak, Kinga Tóth, Yimeng Wu and Érica Zíngano. 

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The following edition of the onlie magazine is expected to be published on June 8, 2017. Further editions are currently being prepared. (The editors gladly accept text proposals and blog contributions from non-German-speaking Berlin based authors.) 

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The central concern of the STADTSPRACHEN is to raise the view that German literature is not only written in German (actually since centuries). The magazine finds out the most exciting authors and their texts of the multilingual Berlin literary scene by translating their texts and make them accessible online as well as presenting them in regular readings and symposia! 

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Welcome to a discovery trip to the unexplored literary treasures of the current Berlin literature scene! 
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Contact: >> Birger Hoyer, Joey Bahlsen (editors of stadtsprachen magazin): info@stadtsprachen.de >> Anna Giannessi (press officer): presse@stadtsprachen.de >> Martin Jankowski (publisher): info@berliner-literarische-aktion.de 
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Berlin Literary Action, Kastanienallee 2, 10435 Berlin, Tel .: 030 - 53 15 59 63

JURNAL SAJAK - special edition in German language

Das indonesische Poesiemagazin JURNAL SAJAK– einmalige deutsche Sonderausgabe

Indonesiens Literatur ist für viele deutsche Leser noch immer eine große Unbekannte. Insbesondere die vielfältige Poesie des riesigen Äquatorarchipels (250 Mio Einwohner) bietet eine faszinierende Fülle an Stimmen und Formen, die es zu entdecken lohnt. Einer der führenden Gegenwartsdichter Indonesiens, Agus R. Sarjono, hat nun gemeinsam mit dem deutschen Literaturwissenschaftler und Indonesienkenner Berthold Damshäuser eine aktuelle Auswahl an Texten der wichtigsten Poeten Indonesiens zusammengestellt, übersetzt und gemeinsam mit einführenden Essays und Artikeln für neugierige deutsche Leser aufbereitet.  

Erstmals erscheint ein einführender Überblick über die Lyrikszene des tropischen Äquatorarchipels als Sonderausgabe von Indonesiens wichtigstem Literaturmagazin für Lyrik – ein Gruß der indonesischen Literaturszene an die deutschen Leser. Und eine Entdeckungsreise in die vielstimmigen Poesielandschaften  der drittgrößten Demokratie der Welt.
  
Jurnal Sajak – zeitgenössische indonesische Lyrik Deutschsprachiges Sonderheft 2015 herausgegeben von Agus R. Sarjono und Berthold Damshäuser, 160 Seiten, Schutzgebühr 9,90 € (inklusive Versand 12,- €) 

>> In Europa zu beziehen über: Berliner Literarische Aktion (Kastanienallee 2, 10435 Berlin), Bestellung nur per E-Mail:
info@berliner-literarische-aktion.de

poetry conference (poem)

complaint conference
(the future of poetry)

silence please

the poets are talking

the poets are talking inside

the poets are talking inside the building

please silence they are talking about the future of poetry

silence please

the poets are worried

the poets are worried a lot

the poets are worried about poetry

the poets are worried about the future of poetry

but the truth is they are worried about the future of the poets

outside the building no silence at all

the traffic runs through the streets with a roaring

a taxi driver is buying flowers for his girl

an old woman is saying a prayer

a grey bird is praising the sun

and the young man at the sidewalk

is loudly singing his favoured pop song

may be I am not a poet

but I am not worried 

about the future

of poetry

On Indonesian Literature ...

With Indonesia, a country will present itself as guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair in the fall of 2015 (the world's lagest book fare in general), wich's literature in the Western perception plays only a minor role and is a widely unknown in the global literature. This > big Unknown < Martin Jankowski approaches in his new book »Reading Indonesia" by various essays and interviews and takes a closer look at the stylistically and geographically extremely high contrasted heterogeneous literary landscape of the country. Discussions, articles and essays (2002-2014) explore the social background of the Indonesian literature's cultural complexity and provide an introductory overview of this overwhelmingly large scene.

Release date: 17 September 2014. (195 pages, paperback, size 210 x 130 mm, ISBN 978-3-940132-66-6, In German language. MORE.)

los muebles - summer song

RIMBAUD ON JAVA

rimbaud on java

what means a word compared to

what happens between heaven and earth (jürgen ploog)

forget paris

                        pupils shine

towards inside

skin burns

towards inside

hair stings    

to be ablaze

frees himself with maniac

thunderstorms of sound

farewell mother away from charleville

arrested in vienna deported to italy

in hamburg he falls into the claws of

dutch fishers of men

one must enslave the stars

and off to java as foreign legionnaire

the island in the scent of fever

as soon as landed he throws away

all abominations uniform and musket

sink into the swamp behind the barrack

he disappears into the jungle

of silent villages and rice terraces

smokes kretek tobacco in the shadow of the sky

circle children and buffalos

he with the women listens

to the hammering and croaking

a cheerful intermezzo

on the way to

charleville

later escape on a drunken ship

at the cape of good hope he jumps

into whirling water without a word

swimming he looks for the

unkown