Barbi Marković - Literatur als Racheakt

In the organizer's words:

"I will not be intimidated and will do what I want here! Because literature is a sweeping act of revenge by small, cornered souls. The smallest should be the greatest," says Barbi Marković in her poetry lecture "Stealing, scolding, playing". In general, Marković's poetics, who received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for "Minihorror" in 2024, is a poetics of contrasts: in her texts, she combines the everyday with the absurd, using techniques from comics, video games, pop culture and slapstick. Seriousness and lightness thus create a tension that goes hand in hand with a laconic narrative tone. It is therefore only logical that her "Piksi Book", which was named the best soccer book of 2025, ends with the sentence "I hate soccer". In conversation with Ulrike Wörner, selected text passages, influences and deviations as well as her own meaningful shifts in reality are discussed, where reality stumbles.

Supported by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport Baden-Württemberg