Im Gespräch mit Nora Gomringer: Am Meerschwein übt das Kind den Tod

In the organizer's words:

She leaves behind three children and a hyphen. She leaves me her friends, her library, her unease. I write after her as a missing daughter, as an angry woman, as a silenced poet and wonder how little she lets herself be summoned when I want her to. She has - now heavenly - finally emancipated herself. I write about my multifaceted mother, her wisdom and comedy, her husband, the thing with the guinea pigs and myself.

Nora Gomringer, born in 1980, is Swiss and German. She is a poet, filmmaker and writes and speaks for radio, television and feature articles. Opera libretti and theater works as well as numerous collaborations with visual artists make her one of the best-known poets of her generation. In 2015 she received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, in 2022 the Else Lasker-Schüler Prize and most recently in 2025 she was awarded the Kassel Literature Prize for Grotesque Humor. Nora Gomringer lives in Bamberg, where she is the director of the International House of Artists Villa Concordia.

An event in cooperation with the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland and the Heine Haus Literaturhaus Düsseldorf.

Admission only after prior registration
until July 01, 2026 via
im.gespraech@rsgv.de
With the subject "Nora Gomringer"