In the organizer's words:

It is ancient knowledge that before the magic of words lies the magic of sound. When the human voice begins to speak, creatively calls something into being, or calls after it in an incantatory manner, it makes itself similar to things and expands to include previously unknown sounds. It slurs, coos, hums, resembles bird calls - and draws new energy for poetic speech from the transformation of the voice.

The singer and composer Sofia Jernberg celebrates these timeless, oral and musical components of poetry with her brilliant A-Capalla piece One Pitch: Birds for Distortion and Mouth Synthesizers. Without any electronic effects, she creates a biodiversity in the voice that tells of multiple identities, glitches and surprising communities - an intoxicating experience.

The texts of Georg Büchner Prize winner Ursula Krechel are aware of the "mimetic magic" of language. The "sibilant wind" of poetic thought blows through her poems, with which she addresses power mechanisms and exclusion or asks what beauty is: "Rescued. Threatened". In her multifaceted work, she focuses on historical and contemporary ruptures caused by war, violence, migration and loneliness, hears "Schneef lockenstimme", "Heubündelstimme" or the "guttural" voice of witnesses. The slogan here is not world-weary magic, but poetry against procrastination.

Moderation: Rike Scheffler
The event will be held in German and English.

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Tickets are available in advance here on the website and at the Box Office.