Street Art Lesungen mit Lisa James & Nico Feiden

In the organizer's words:

Literary walk to street art locations in the Belgian Quarter

We are going on another tour to exciting street art locations in the Belgian Quarter in Cologne. Each tour will feature two authors who have taken a literary approach to individual works of art in public spaces. Together with the authors, we go from artwork to artwork and listen to the texts directly on site - in the middle of the city. Experienced street art guide Sascha Klein will provide information about the district and the artworks along the route.

Lisa James lives and works as an artist and author in Cologne, where she is studying postgraduate media arts at the Academy of Media Arts. Before that she worked in an architecture office and studied a few other things, including Professional Writing at the University of Cologne and English Literature and Writing in Pittsburgh, USA. She works with text, installation and (moving) image. In 2021 she was Artist in Residence at Burg Hülshoff - Center for Literature near Münster and part of the open poems of the Haus für Poesie in Berlin. She was co-editor of the 5th edition of the Kurze Anthologie with a focus on multilingualism and translation. Her poetry and prose have appeared in the literary journals DAS GEDICHT, 'apostrophe and WORD, among others. Her short film Hallimaschkomplex was screened at the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2021. Her poetry cycle "Die Leerstelle, das bist du" was awarded 3rd place and the Audience Award of the Cologne Prize for Young Literature 2022.

Nico Feiden born 1993 in Zell (Mosel). After traveling extensively throughout Europe, he now lives and works as a freelance writer in Cologne. Various publications in anthologies, radio contributions & TV reports on SWR, ORF and 3Sat. His poetry collection "Blaue Wildnis" was published by Elifverlag in 2016. 2017 "Das Echo des Weines" was published by RMV-Verlag. 2017 scholarship holder at the Dante Institute in Florence and winner of the poetry prize of the city of Baden (near Vienna) as part of the Art-Experience-Festival. In 2018, his debut novel "Sterben können wir später" was published by Astikos-Verlag. In 2019 he was part of the Printemps Poetique Transfrontalier fellowship. His new theater version of Borchert's "Draußen vor der Tür" premiered in Cologne. From 2021 to 2022 he received the MKW scholarship from the Cologne district government. In 2023, his novel "Nur noch einen Track lang träumen" was published by Avantgarde Books. Feiden is currently working on a series for a streaming service and a new volume of poetry. He is the organizer of the reading series "Quadrat im Kreis", which has been taking place monthly in Cologne since May 2024.

The meeting point is at a central point in the Belgian Quarter and is yet to be announced.

This event is supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne.