Wednesday, 6/18/2025
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NATURE WRITING IN DER LYRIK
Esther Kinsky reads from "Schiefern" and "Maulbeerzeilen"

Reporting on nature. Writing with it as a motif. Even writing for nature. In Germany, this has a long tradition; just think of Goethe and Kant. The genre has experienced a new boom thanks to authors from the Anglo-American world. In Hamburg, the first international Nature Writing Festival is taking place, initiated and organized by KJM Verlag, which has been successfully publishing "Essays on Nature and Landscape" for years.

In the Literaturhaus, the poet and novelist Esther Kinsky is a guest, who encounters area and terrain in her texts until fertile understanding arises from initially almost aimless observation. "Schiefern" (Suhrkamp) serves the award-winning writer as exploration material, also in analogy to exploring human memory – slate is both durable and fragile. In "Maulbeerzeilen" (Edition Thanhäuser), the subject of description is naturally more botanical: "Only around the mulberry trees, it is quiet... The mulberry trees stand silent and dark green between field and field."

Esther Kinsky, who was awarded the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2018 for her novel "Hain," discusses her literature and her relationship to nature and nature writing with the writer Katharina Mevissen, who recently published the novel "Mutters Stimmbruch" with Wagenbach.

The event is part of the Nature Writing Festival, which takes place from June 17 to 21, 2025, in Hamburg (www.europeanessays.eu/festival).

Doors open at 6:30 PM / Bar service by the Literaturhaus café

Advance ticket sales begin on May 15, 2025, at 9:00 AM.

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