{"id":94127,"date":"2025-07-08T14:05:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/events-archive\/poetry-night-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T14:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:05:31","slug":"poetry-night-2","status":"publish","type":"events-archive","link":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/events-archive\/poetry-night-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Poetry Night brings a rich tapestry of voices to the stage \u2013 featuring powerful poetic voices from Belarus, Palestine, Greenland, and Germany. Poets read in their native languages; alternating with German-speaking authors who perform their \u2013 sometimes festival-exclusive \u2013 translations.<br>In <strong>Julia Cimafiejeva<\/strong>\u2019s poems, traces of ecological and political violence appear \u2013 in nature, the body, and language itself. Her verses traverse centuries like a \u00bbroad that grows inward\u00ab and \u00bbthrows mountains beneath itself.\u00ab Violence is also pervasive in the poetry of <strong>Asmaa Azaizeh<\/strong>. Family members drift helplessly like beetles in water, teeth threaten to fall out \u2013 and in dreams, the lyrical self even loses its dreams, which turn into fossils in the riverbed. <strong>Jessie Kleemann<\/strong> weaves figures and symbols of Greenlandic culture with objects and languages from other countries. Kalaallisut\/Greenlandic, Danish, and English merge into new sound and meaning spaces where myth and present-day intertwine. Her performance will be musically accompanied<br>by <strong>S\u00f8ren Gemmer<\/strong>. <strong>Sirka Elspa\u00df<\/strong> looks at the fractures of everyday life with clear, precise language. Her poems revolve around the body, exhaustion, uncertainty, birds in the sky, and fleeting moments of comfort: \u00bbich suche \/ sie immer die engel \/ den trost per boten\u00ab. Vulnerable, sharply observed, and at times quietly angry, Elspa\u00df explores the fragility of being in the world. <strong>Jo\u00ebl Hubaut<\/strong> will also perform on this evening. He is the recipient of the Prix d&#8217;Honneur of the Prix Litt\u00e9raire Bernard Heidsieck, which will be awarded for the first time at the ilb. The French artist and pioneer of sound poetry has been combining language, sound, image, and performance since the 1970s. His appearances are radical, poetic interventions, and a passionate plea for literature beyond the book. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">With Asmaa Azaizeh, Julia Cimafiejeva, Sirka Elspa\u00df, Jo\u00ebl Hubaut, Jessie Kleemann<br>Moderated by Karolina Golimowska<br>Read by Sandra Hetzl, Uljana Wolf<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event will be held in English with readings in various languages. With literary translations created exclusively for the festival: Sandra Hetzl translated poems by Asmaa Azaizeh from Arabic into German; Moritz Schramm translated poems by Jessie Kleemann from Danish into German.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","tags":[],"jct-program-properties":[808],"jct-ilb-years":[906],"jct-program-categories":[796],"class_list":["post-94127","events-archive","type-events-archive","status-publish","hentry","jct-program-properties-livestream-en","jct-ilb-years-2024-en","jct-program-categories-evening-program"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Poetry Night &#8211; international literature festival berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/events-archive\/poetry-night-2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Poetry Night &#8211; international literature festival berlin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Poetry Night brings a rich tapestry of voices to the stage \u2013 featuring powerful poetic voices from Belarus, Palestine, Greenland, and Germany. 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