die Unabhängigen. Ein Abend mit dem Verlagshaus Berlin

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Our audience has voted: On March 3, we will be presenting Verlagshaus Berlin in our series with independent publishers, which has always been fully booked. So get your coveted tickets quickly for a highly interesting and entertaining evening, this time a poetry special! We'll be talking to publisher and typographer Andrea Schmidt about why poetry is urgently needed in these times, whether the financial turnover from poetry books is enough for bread or even butter, how to pick out the right manuscript from the multitude of manuscripts submitted and how typography influences reading. And of course there will also be live poetry: poet and translator Odile Kennel will read from her book "Irgendetwas Dazwischen", a lyrical plea for disorder, unfolding and development. It was awarded the Dörlemann Prize of the Hotlist of Independent Publishers in 2024 and has been impressively and congenially illustrated by Anja Nolte. Third in the line-up is the writer and literary mediator Alexander Graeff. He will be reading from his latest poetry collection "Deine Revolution für Ungenauigkeit hat Zukunftswert". "A wonderful book for sensitive rebels (...) by one of the most interesting contemporary poets," said fellow writer Tanja Dückers in her review and was delighted: "His poetry sparkles with invention. "Moderation:Thomas HoepsFor two decades, theVerlagshaus Berlin has stood for poetry that intervenes, asks questions and seeks answers - for poems that are rooted in their time and at the same time point beyond it. What began as an idea among friends is now one of the most important voices for poetry in the German-speaking world. With a consistently socially oriented focus, Andrea Schmidt, Jo Frank and Tillmann Severin publish texts that have something to say and that remain. Design and content reinforce each other to make poetry an aesthetically effective force to be experienced. To date, this has earned them an award from the Stiftung Buchkunst, the Berlin Publishing Prize and five German Publishing Prizes, most recently in 2025.Odile Kennelle lives in Berlin as a poet and translator of mainly contemporary poetry from French, Portuguese, Spanish and English. She writes in German and French and likes to include other languages in her texts. In her essay LUST (Verlagshaus Berlin, 3rd edition 2023) and her poetry collection Hors Texte (Verlagshaus Berlin 2019), she explores the space between text and sex and allows languages to follow one another. In 2022, she received the Paul Scheerbart Prize for her poetry translations. LUST was shortlisted for the Book Women's Prize in 2023. She has just translated the volume "Geliebte Monster" by be.rg from Brazilian Portuguese into German for our friends at elif-Verlag in Nettetal.Alexander Graeff, PhD, is a writer, philosopher and literary mediator. He writes poetry, prose and biographical-philosophical essays - and likes to mix genres. He is head of the literature program at the Berlin art and culture center Brotfabrik and initiator of the reading series "Writing against the Norm(s)". In the Queer Media Society, he is committed to increasing the visibility of queer people and material in the German-language literary scene. He has conducted academic research in the fields of social sciences, history and religious studies, in particular on phenomena of the marginalized and deviant. He lives in Berlin.Andrea Schmidt is a publisher, typographer and teacher. She has been co-publisher of Verlagshaus Berlin since 2005. In 2010 she founded Typografie-im-Kontext, a studio for graphic design with a focus on editorial and corporate design. Her illustrations include "Die Erbärmlichkeit des Krieges. Poems and Letters by Wilfred Owen", awarded by the Stiftung Buchkunst as one of the "Most Beautiful German Books". Since 2021, she has been part of the curatorial team of "Schreiben gegen die Norm(en)?".die Unabhängigen. Freie Verlage vorgestelltAfter filling in the form you will receive a confirmation of your reservation by e-mail. Please also check your spam folder. You can collect your reserved tickets from the Box Office from 30 minutes before the start of the event. We only have one cash desk and are happy to accept small bills. If you are unable to attend the event at short notice, please cancel in good time at literaturhaus@krefeld.de. You will also be informed of any news about the event by e-mail. During the event, photos and/or video recordings will be made for public relations and documentation purposes (legitimate interest according to GDPR Art. 6 para. 1f). If you do not agree, please contact us at short notice.2ParticipantsReserve hereParticipate... This content has been machine translated.