Lunch Lecture mit Christoph Wenzel

In the organizer's words:

Before the summer break, Christoph Wenzel remembers the poet Ilse Kibgis. Born in Gelsenkirchen, she found formative images for life and work in the Ruhr region and wrote poems about people she met on the street there, such as the French fries lady.

"The landmarks of my city are mothballed mines." Ilse Kibgis, 1984, "Meine Stadt ist kein Knüller in Reisekatalogen", Oberhausen: Assoverlag

Christoph Wenzel writes poetry and essays and lives in Aachen. His most recent publication was "landläufiges lexikon" (EditionKorrespondenzen, 2022). He has received numerous awards for his poetry, including the Alfred Gruber Prize at the Merano Poetry Prize, the GWK Literature Prize, the Rolf-Dieter Brinkmann Scholarship and the Dresden Poetry Prize. After that, he curated the ongoing Instagram poetry anthology @fluss_laut for the Literaturbüro NRW and is currently devoting more time to staging literature in public spaces.

A series of events organized by Literary Writing at the Academy of Media Arts and the Cologne City Library. The Lunch Lectures are supported by the Victor Rolff Foundation and the Rectorate of the Academy of Media Arts.