PoesieFest 2025

In the organizer's words:

29.8., Fri. - 01.09., Mon., PoetryFest 2025

Theme: Poetry and politics

Motto: "In every word remains a remnant of there" (Herta Müller)

29.08.2025, Fri., 19:00.
Claudia Dathe (ed.). Translating the war. (edition.fotoTapeta)
Poetry festival opening evening with Claudia Dathe and Kateryna Michalizyna

Poems from the Ukraine. Poems by:

Victoria Amelina, Jurij Bondartschuk, Daryna Gladun, Ljuba Jakymtschuk, Ella Jewtuschenko, Oleh Kadanow, Kateryna Kalytko, Iya Kiva, Pawlo Korobtschuk, Kateryna Michalizyna, Lesyk Panasiuk, Tania Rodionova, Grigory Semenchuk, Iryna Shuvalova, Olena Stepanenko, Iryna Tsilyk

Moderation: Dr. Lothar Schröder (Head of the RP cultural editorial office)

30.08.2025, Sat. 16:00.
Ulf Stolterfoht. rückkehr von krähe. (kookbook)

Ulf Stolterfoht is a poet and writer, as well as a squire of the Lyrikknappschaft Schöneberg, a member of the Berlin and Darmstadt academies and ran the small publishing house BRUETERICH PRESS from 2015 to 2022

Moderation: Christoph Buchwald (publisher)

Silke Scheuermann. Second book of unrest. (Schöffling)

Silke Scheuermann, born in Karlsruhe in 1973, lives near Frankfurt am Main. She has received numerous scholarships and prizes for her poems, stories and novels, including a scholarship from the Villa Massimo in Rome. Silke Scheuermann's new volume of poetry Zweites Buch der Unruhe is nothing less than a lyrical history of humanity and civilization from creation to the algorithms of artificial intelligence. Fairy tale and myth, nature and the artificial, evolution and technical progress merge into a wondrous civilization full of poetic cracks

Moderation: Rudolf Müller (owner of the Literaturhandlung im Heine Haus)

Daniela Seel. After Eden. (Suhrkamp)

Daniela Seel, born 1974 in Frankfurt am Main, lives in Berlin as an author, translator and publisher of kookbooks. She has published several volumes of poetry, Nach Eden is her first book with Suhrkamp Verlag, as well as the radio feature was weißt du schon von prärie together with Frank Kaspar. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the Kleist Prize in 2025, and her poems have been translated into several languages.

Moderation: Ulf Stolterfoht (poet)

31.08.2025, Sun., 11:30 a.m. Matinee.
Award ceremony PoesieDebütPreis Düsseldorf 2025.
Frieda Paris. Afterwater. (edition AZUR)

Greetings:
Miriam Koch(Head of Department for Culture and Integration of the state capital Düsseldorf)
Dr. Thomas Jelitte (Chairman Heine Haus e.V.)

Laudatory speech: Ronya Othmann
Reading: Frieda Paris. Afterwater.
Piano: Frederike Möller

The poetry festival is sponsored by the Cultural Office of the City of Düsseldorf and the Kunststiftung NRW.

01.09.2025 Mon, 10:30 a.m.
Children's Poetry Festival. Poetry by Heine for young and old.
Closed Event for school classes. Registration required

The Children's Poetry Festival is sponsored by the Sparkassen Kulturstiftung Rheinland and the Kunst- und Kulturstiftung der Stadtsparkasse Düsseldorf

Further information coming soon.