Literaturwerkstatt Berlin Press & Publicity Knaackstr. 97 Boris Nitzsche & Jutta Büchter D-10435 Berlin Tel: +49. 30. 48 52 45 – 25 Tel: +49. 30. 48 52 45 – 0 Fax: +49. 30. 48 52 45 – 30 http://www.literaturwerkstatt.org E-Mail: [email protected] Press release 15 October 2014 Peter Huchel – the 1000th poet on lyrikline Peter Huchel’s is to be the thousandth poetic voice on the lyrikline website on Saturday, 18 October 2014. There will then be poets from 102 countries on lyrikline, with around 9,000 poems in 63 languages and more than 12,700 translations into 66 different languages. All the poems on lyrikline are spoken by the poets themselves in the original, including recordings of the voices of great, deceased poets of the past such as Bertolt Brecht, Hermann Hesse, Rose Ausländer, Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, Hugo Claus, Mahmud Darwish, Nâzim Hikmet, Ernst Jandl, Heiner Müller and William Peter Huchel Foto: Roger Melis Butler Yeats. lyrikline works with a network of more than forty partners around the world. More Information: www.lyrikline.org The poet Peter Huchel was born in 1903 in Gross-Lichterfelde near Berlin and died in Staufen in the Breisgau in 1981. He is mostly known for his work as Editor-in-Chief from 1948 to 1962 of the East Berlin journal Sinn und Form (Sense and Form). After Huchel was removed from the journal by SED party functionaries in 1962, he underwent nine years of isolation and surveillance. Until he emigrated to the West in 1971, he lived in Wilhelmshorst, in what is now the Peter Huchel House, which was then a meeting place for opposition writers. After emigrating, Huchel lived first in the Villa Massimo in Rome before settling in Staufen in the Breisgau. Huchel received many prizes and awards for his work. Since 1984 the federal state of Baden-Württemberg and Südwestrundfunk (South-Western Broadcasting) have been awarding the Peter Huchel Prize for German-language poetry. The 1000th poet – the reading We will be celebrating our thousandth lyrikline poet with a reading by seven lyrikline poets on Saturday, 18 October 2014, as part of the 7th ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival in the Kino Babylon. The poets who will be reading come from around the world and can already be heard on lyrikline. They are Gabrielė Labanauskaitė (Lithuania), Ghayath Almadhoun (Palestine, Syria & Sweden), Jazra Khaleed (Greece), Øyvind Rimbereid (Norway), Paul Bogaert (Belgium) and Ulrike Almut Sandig (Germany). Simon Barraclough (Great Britain) will also be reading, as a future voice on lyrikline. lyrikline is a project of the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin in co-operation with its partners and acknowledges the kind support of the Berlin Senate Office for Cultural Affairs. Sat. 18 October 2014, 9:30 pm Øyvind Rimbereid (Norway), Ulrike Almut Listen to the Poet! – a reading Sandig (Germany) Moderation: Per Bergström Kino Babylon, Rosa Luxemburg Strasse 30, (publisher, Sweden) 10178 Berlin Featuring Ghayath Almadhoun (Palestine, For enquiries and information: Syria & Sweden), Simon Barraclough (UK), Boris Nitzsche, Press & Publicity, Paul Bogaert (Belgium), Jazra Khaleed Literaturwerkstatt Berlin, Tel: 030. 48 52 45 25 (Greece), Gabriele Labanauskaite (Lithuania), www.literaturwerkstatt.org .