Lyrik für die Seele: Lasst und wieder Wolkenhirten sein
Marion Tauschwitz: "Hilde Domin – Let us be shepherds of clouds again
Hilde Domin's simple words smell of humanity. Her poetry possesses a truthfulness born from distressing experiences: persecution, flight, loss of home and love, loneliness, deprivations. Yet the poet opposed pain with her alphabet of active letters. Until suffering transformed into beauty, the voices of the tortured into beautiful music, and vulnerability and healing walked hand in hand. Marion Tauschwitz has combined Domin's most beautiful, memorable lines from poems and letters in this memorial volume for the 20th anniversary of her death. Favorite lines that become an anchor in everyday life and invite you to a rendezvous with Hilde Domin and her poems.
Hilde Domin, born Löwenstein, was born on July 27, 1909, in Cologne. She was one of the most significant lyricists of the post-war period, but also made a name for herself as a literary scholar. With Hitler's rise to power, the time of exile began for Hilde Domin and her husband, which led them over Italy, England, and Canada to Santo Domingo. After 22 years, they returned to Germany in 1954, where Domin began to publish her poems under the pseudonym "Domin," named after "the name of her island." From 1961, she lived in Heidelberg, where she died on February 22, 2006.
Marion Tauschwitz studied English and German and worked as a high school teacher, freelance lecturer, and freelance author before meeting Hilde Domin in Heidelberg in 2001. She accompanied her until her death in 2006. In 2009 she published a comprehensive biography of Hilde Domin, which was welcomed by literary critics as a standard work. Biographies, fiction Marion Tauschwitz lives in Heidelberg.
Manfred Klenk: "Autumn Timeless Poetry" accompanied by the harp of Madeleine Schumacher
Madeleine Schumacher is a German singer-songwriter. She accompanies her songs with the Celtic harp. Her artistic concept combines music, nature, and poetry under the title "Hidden Gardens." She emigrated as a small child from the idyllic pre-Alps of Bavaria with her family to the United States and grew up in Brooklyn and Queens, New York.
"Love Whisper," a historical reading of famous personalities from six centuries, with actress Anke Sonnentag.
Manfred Klenk, born in Mannheim, has been publishing poems, essays, and short prose for many years. As an editor and author (among others), he has published the anthology "Homeland and Elsewhere" in 2024 together with four authors from the Literary Center Rhein-Neckar e.V. "THE ROBBERS '77". This year, a joint poetry brochure "Autumn Timeless Poetry" was created with Madeleine Schumacher, which will be published and presented to the audience at this year's "Weinheimer Literature Festival / Weinheim reads."
Gabriele Kirch: Poetry
Marion Tauschwitz reads from "Hilde Domin – Let us be shepherds of clouds again.
Hilde Domin's simple words smell of humanity. Her poetry possesses a truthfulness born from distressing experiences: persecution, flight, loss of home and love, loneliness, deprivations. Yet the poet opposed pain with her alphabet of active letters. Until suffering transformed into beauty, the voices of the tortured into beautiful music, and vulnerability and healing walked hand in hand. Marion Tauschwitz has combined Domin's most beautiful, memorable lines from poems and letters in this memorial volume for the 20th anniversary of her death. Favorite lines that become an anchor in everyday life and invite you to a rendezvous with Hilde Domin and her poems.
Hilde Domin, born Löwenstein, was born on July 27, 1909, in Cologne. She was one of the most significant lyricists of the post-war period, but also made a name for herself as a literary scholar. With Hitler's rise to power, the time of exile began for Hilde Domin and her husband, which led them over Italy, England, and Canada to Santo Domingo. After 22 years, they returned to Germany in 1954, where Domin began to publish her poems under the pseudonym "Domin," named after "the name of her island." From 1961, she lived in Heidelberg, where she died on February 22, 2006.
Marion Tauschwitz studied English and German and worked as a high school teacher, freelance lecturer, and freelance author before meeting Hilde Domin in Heidelberg in 2001. She accompanied her until her death in 2006. In 2009 she published a comprehensive biography of Hilde Domin, which was welcomed by literary critics as a standard work. Biographies, fiction Marion Tauschwitz lives in Heidelberg.
Manfred Klenk reads from "Autumn Timeless Poetry" accompanied by the harp of Madeleine Schumacher
Poetry to the harp
Madeleine Schumacher is a German singer-songwriter. She accompanies her songs with the Celtic harp. Her artistic concept combines music, nature, and poetry under the title "Hidden Gardens." She emigrated as a small child from the idyllic pre-Alps of Bavaria with her family to the United States and grew up in Brooklyn and Queens, New York.
"Love Whisper," a historical reading of famous personalities from six centuries, with actress Anke Sonnentag.
Manfred Klenk, born in Mannheim, has been publishing poems, essays, and short prose for many years. As an editor and author (among others), he has published the anthology "Homeland and Elsewhere" in 2024 together with four authors from the Literary Center Rhein-Neckar e.V. "THE ROBBERS '77". This year, a joint poetry brochure "Autumn Timeless Poetry" was created with Madeleine Schumacher, which will be published and presented to the audience at this year's "Weinheimer Literature Festival / Weinheim reads."
Gabriele Kirch: "Children in Poetry – Poems and Haiku"
On the occasion of a daughter’s anniversary, Gabriele Kirch set out to find the right poem for the said occasion. She looked through her collected works and noticed how many texts, thoughts, and poems related to children and childhood have accumulated over her more than 40 years of work as a poet. Thus, the desire arose to create a book that exclusively deals with children and the inevitably important phase of childhood for all of us.
Gabriele Kirch was born in 1953 in Finsterwalde in Lower Lusatia. She spent the most beautiful years of her childhood and youth in the Palatinate. After various stages across Germany, she has found her home for the last 30 years on the Baltic Sea near Kiel.
Manon Hopf: from "here stands your human. Transformations"
The great transformer in Manon Hopf's poems is the language itself: that nothing remains together or close; that everything is in flow and becoming – and that language, out of sound, shapes, moves, and even recreates bodies, animals, and relationships. Here, in these poems, everything is in motion: the waters from the source through the river to the sea, where the sirens sing of all that which one does not want to hear; the abysses and night songs. Even dying here is just a transformation: "you are already ash" – and disappearance also and certainly sleep within the "moon sickness" as "a question / of the diminishing / light."
Manon Hopf lives in Mannheim. Literature studies in Mainz, master's studies in Frankfurt am Main. Literary translation from French at LMU Munich. Since 2021 member of VdÜ, in 2021 her poetry collection "hand, legungen" was published; in 2024 "here stands your human. Transformations" at Hochroth Heidelberg.
On the occasion of a daughter’s anniversary, Gabriele Kirch set out to find the right poem for the said occasion. She looked through her collected works and noticed how many texts, thoughts, and poems related to children and childhood have accumulated over her more than 40 years of work as a poet. Thus, the desire arose to create a book that exclusively deals with children and the inevitably important phase of childhood for all of us.
Gabriele Kirch was born in 1953 in Finsterwalde in Lower Lusatia. She spent the most beautiful years of her childhood and youth in the Palatinate. After various stages across Germany, she has found her home for the last 30 years on the Baltic Sea near Kiel.
Manon Hopf reads from "here stands your human. Transformations"
The great transformer in Manon Hopf's poems is the language itself: that nothing remains together or close; that everything is in flow and becoming – and that language, out of sound, shapes, moves, and even recreates bodies, animals, and relationships. Here, in these poems, everything is in motion: the waters from the source through the river to the sea, where the sirens sing of all that which one does not want to hear; the abysses and night songs. Even dying here is just a transformation: "you are already ash" – and disappearance also and certainly sleep within the "moon sickness" as "a question / of the diminishing / light."
Manon Hopf lives in Mannheim. Literature studies in Mainz, master's studies in Frankfurt am Main. Literary translation from French at LMU Munich. Since 2021 member of VdÜ, in 2021 her poetry collection "hand, legungen" was published; in 2024 "here stands your human. Transformations" at Hochroth Heidelberg
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