Refugees Worldwide
In Summer 2016, the project “Refugees Worldwide” was founded. 14 authors travelled to crisis points in particular countries to understand more deeply the situation facing refugees and displaced peoples there; following this period of research, the authors wrote up their research into literary travelogues. The project had its first public appearance in Autumn 2016 in the form of an event and discussion during the International Literature Festival Berlin (ilb).
Published by Ragpicker Press in September 2017.
Berlin Anthology
Texts and poems from all over the world, chosen by guests of the international literature festival berlin, are contained within this anthology. It is an extraordinary and personal collection of texts, many of which have been translated for the first time into German.
The international literature festival berlin offers visitors readings, discussions and encounters with authors of world-literature. It has established itself world-wide as one of the most important meeting points between famous writers and new, as yet undiscovered authors. The Berlin Anthology, which has accompanied the festival since 2001, reflects its diverse character and is the lasting essence which lives on following the 12 days of festivities and the authors’ return to their homelands.
Berlin Anthology 2016
“The Poetry Project” – Poets by young refugees from Afghanistan and Iran: Ali Ahmadi, Ghani Ataei, Mahdi Hashemi, Kahel Kaschmiri, Mohamad Mashgdost, Samilullah Rassouli, Shah Zamir Hataki und Yasser Niksada.
The Poetry Project
edited by The Poetry Project and Ulrich Schreiber
32 pages
Self Published
Berlin Anthology 2015
“From where I shan’t return” with poems, short stories and essays by Brian Castro, Yiorgos Chouliaras, Beppe Costa, Aleš Debeljak, Lidija Dimkovska, Ludwig Fels, Ota Flilip, Ingeborg Kringeland Hald, Hilde Susan Jægtnes, Brigitta Jónsdóttir, Lê Thi Diem Thúy, Nikola Madzirov, John Mateer, Karl Otto Mühl, Marina Naprushkina, Amir Or, E. C. Osondu, Moritz Rinke, Göran Rosenberg, Gabriel Rosenstock, Patricia de Souza and Keto von Waberer. The International Literature Festival Berlin, together with the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, has called on authors to contemplate the fates of refugees and asylum-seekers in literary form. Twenty-two authors from fifteen different countries answered this call in poems, short prose and essays. The perspectives and insights are just as different as individual motives, destinies, and experiences.
From where I shan’t return
edited by Christine Pütz, Anna Senft und Ulrich Schreiber
120 pages
ISBN 978-3-940384-79-9
Verlag Vorwerk 8 // www.vorwerk8.de
Berlin Anthology 2013
Ein literarischer Rettungsschirm für Europa
edited by Thomas Böhm, Robert Geselle und Ulrich Schreiber
150 pages
ISBN 978-3-940384-54-6
Verlag Vorwerk 8 // www.vorwerk8.de
Berlin Anthology 2010
Sixty-six poems from all over the world, chosen by guests of the international literature festival berlin, are contained within this anthology. It is an extraordinary and personal collection of texts, many of which have been translated for the first time into German. All the poems are printed in their original language as well as in their German translation.
With poems by: Juri Andruchowytsch, Israel Bar Kohav, Gottfried Benn, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, Wladislaw Chodassjewitsch, Robert Creeley, Louis-Philippe Dalembert, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Lidija Dimkovska, Odysseas Elitys, Franzobel, Dmitri Golynko, Durs Grünbein, Kevin Hart, Ernst Jandl, Hasso Krull, Federico García Lorca, Nikola Madzirov, Valzhyna Mort, Anne Sexton, Island Sjón, Shuntarô Tanikawa, Hans Thill, Sergej Timofejev, Tomas Tranströmer, Adam Zagajewski, Serhij Zhadan, Jovan Zivlak, Marina Zwetajewa u.a.
den erdrand erleuchtet Begierde
Herausgegeben von Ajda Omrani und Ulrich Schreiber
208 Seiten Broschur // 19,50 €
ISBN 978-3-940384-35-5
Verlag Vorwerk 8 // www.vorwerk8.de
Berlin Anthology 2009
Sixty-six poems from all over the world, chosen by guests of the international literature festival berlin, are contained within this anthology. It is an extraordinary and personal collection of texts, many of which have been translated for the first time into German. All the poems are printed in their original language as well as in their German translation.
With poems by: Yassin Adnan, Raja Alem, Nujum Alghanem, Ali Bader, Yussef Bazzi, Hans Christoph Buch, Coral Bracho, Daniela Danz, Gerhard Falkner, Aris Fioretos, Joy Harjo, Susan Howe, Abed Ismael, Christoph Leisten, Yvon Le Men, Christine Montalbetti, Fatima Naoot, Naomi Shehab Nye, José F.A. Oliver, Volker Sielaff and Göran Sonnevi.
Wenn ohne Grund die Nacht schön ist
Berliner Anthologie
Herausgegeben von Ajda Omrani, Gregor Pohl und Ulrich Schreiber
201 Seiten Broschur // 10 €
ISBN 978-3-940384-28-7
Verlag Vorwerk 8 // www.vorwerk8.de
Berlin Anthology 2007
The 2007 edition includes poems by Jehuda Amichai, Amiri Karaka, Stefan Bastovoi, Piedad Bonnett, Szilárd Borbély, John Burnside, Anne Carson, Paul Celan, Andrei Condrescu, Francis Dannemark, Jibanananda Das, John Donne, Du Fu, Gunnar Eklöf, Adolf Endler, Asli Erdogan, Hafis, Zbigniew Herbert, lê thi diem thúy, Oleh Lyscheha, Ossip Mandelstam, Hendrik Marsman, Maram al-Masri, Heiner Müller, Gellu Naum, Frank O’Hara, George Oppen, Sigitas Parulskis, Oskar Pastior, Monika Rinck, Luis Rosales, Sapphire, Friedrich Schiller, Seung Sahn, Nicholas Shakespeare, Patti Smith, George Szirtes, Blanca Varela, Anne Waldman, José Watanabe, Saadi Youssef, and Adam Zagajewski.
Alle Uhren andere Zeiten
edited by Beatrice Faßbender and Ulrich Schreiber
with a preface by Bora Cosic
272 pages // 15 €
ISBN 978-3-930916-95-5
Verlag Vorwerk 8 // www.vorwerk8.de
Berlin Anthology 2006
The 2006 edition includes poems by Gabriela Adameşteanu, Rafael Alberti, Unsi al-Hadj, Eugenijus Ališanka, Ingeborg Bachmann, Elizabeth Bishop, Bertold Brecht, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lewis Carroll, Paul Celan, Aimé Césaire, Mirza Ghalib, Louise Glück, Dieter M. Gräf, Helon Habila, Paal-Helge Haugen, Zbigniew Herbert, Sergej Jessenin, István Kemény, Jan Koneffke, Norman Manea, Henri Michaux, Octavio Paz, Edgar Allan Poe, Alastair Reid, Kenneth Rexroth, Gerhard Rühm, Marin Sorescu, Tomas Tranströmer, Paul Verlaine, Derek Walcott, and Peter Waterhouse.
Das Andenken, die Bilder der Erde
edited by Beatrice Faßbender and Ulrich Schreiber
with a preface by Édouard Glissant
272 pages // 15 €
ISBN 3-930916-88-6
Verlag Vorwerk 8 // www.vorwerk8.de
Berlin Anthology 2005
The 2005 edition includes poems by José Lezama Lima, Alkman, Mia Couto, Gunnar Ekelöf, Elisabeth Langgässer, Allen Ginsberg, Bert Papenfuß, William Wordsworth, W.S. Merwin, Adam Zagajewski, Dylan Thomas, Heinrich Heine, Cesare Pavese, Sylvia Plath, Octavio Paz, Jannis Ritsos, and Raymond Carver.
Aus einem abgeschiedenen Land
edited by Beatrice Faßbender and Ulrich Schreiber
with a preface by Ilma Rakusa
300 pages // 15 €
ISBN 3-89581-147-5
Alexander Verlag Berlin // www.alexander-verlag.com
Berlin Anthology 2004
The 2004 edition includes poems by Chris Abani, Taha Muhammad Ali, Juri Andruchowytsch, Abbas Baydoun, Gottfried Benn, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Celan, Gianni Celati, Gregory Corso, Rubén Darío, Ludwig Fels, Günter Bruno Fuchs, Aritha van Herk, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Kate Judith, Zakes Mda, Adrian Mitchell, Latiff Mohidin, Susanne Riedel, Alfian Bin Sa’ at, Anne Sexton, Charles Simic, and Xavier Villaurrutia.
Irdisches Leben, blauer Dunst
edited by Beatrice Faßbender and Ulrich Schreiber
with a preface by Michael Krüger
286 pages // 15 €
ISBN 3-89581-125-4
Alexander Verlag Berlin // www.alexander-verlag.com
Berlin Anthology 2003
The 2003 edition includes poems by Gennadij Ajgi, Dennis Brutus, Karen Connelly, Achmat Dangor, Antonio Gamoneda, Christian Ganachaud, Federico García Lorca, Zbigniew Herbert, Victor Hugo, Clara Janés, Li Shimin, Lajos Parti Nagy, Fernando Pessoa, Ljudmila Petruschewskaja, Rainer Maria Rilke, Nelly Sachs, José Angel Valente, Dieter Wellershoff, and Walt Whitman.
Das Gedächtnis der Wörter
with an encyclopaedic article from Hans Magnus Enzensberger
edited by Beatrice Faßbender and Ulrich Schreiber
268 pages // 15 €
ISBN 3-89581-108-4
Alexander Verlag Berlin // www.alexander-verlag.com
Berlin Anthology 2002
The 2002 edition includes poems by Petr Borkovec, Breyten Breytenbach, Raymond Carver, Paul Celan, Forrest Gander, Uri Zvi Grinberg, Irene Gruss, Yoel Hoffmann, Attila József, Edvard Kocbek, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Robert Lowell, Heiner Müller, Wole Soyinka, Jean Tardieu, Tomas Tranströmer, John Tranter, Yvonne Vera, Robert Walser, and Wang Wei.
An den Toren einer unbekannten Stadt
with a preface by Lars Gustaffson
edited by Beatrice Fassbender and Ulrich Schreiber
256 pages // 15 €
ISBN 3-89581-088-6
Alexander Verlag Berlin // www.alexander-verlag.com
Berlin Anthology 2001
The 2001 edition includes poems by Jehuda Amichai, Sargon Boulus, Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Aimé Césaire, Emily Dickinson, Rita Dove, Allen Ginsberg, Rolf Haufs, Vivian Hopkirk, Ernst Jandl, Susan Kiguli, Antjie Krog, Li Qinzhao, Ossip Mandelstam, Harriet Naboro, George Oppen, György Petri, Giuseppe Ungaretti, and Marina Zwetajewa.
Die Welt über dem Wasserspiegel
with a preface by Joachim Sartorius
256 pages // 15,50 €
ISBN 3-89581-070-3
Alexander Verlag Berlin // www.alexander-verlag.com
Scritture Giovani
It started with the support of the European Union’s Cultural Programme and has continued with increasing success. Scritture Giovani involves several of Europe’s major literary festivals – Festivaletteratura, Hay Festival (United Kingdom) and international literature festival berlin (Germany).
The authors in the past years were chosen under the criteria of age (under 32), the first publication of a short story written specifically for the project, the first translation of their work (into the languages of the three festivals: Italian, English and German) and the participation of the authors at events at the three festivals.
The short stories, information about the Scritture Giovani authors and other news will be published on the website: www.scritturegiovani.it.
40 short stories from the last 13 years by authors from around the world.
The Scritture Giovani publications from the past years are listed up here.
2016: Much Ado About Nothing
With short stories by:
Rebecca F. John
Ilaria Gaspari
Mercedes Lauenstein
Nina Polak
2015: Home
With short stories by:
Valerie Fritsch
Llŷr Gwyn Lewis
Marco Parlato
Elske Rahill
2013: Jerusalem
With short stories by:
Laura Fidaleo
Meirion Jordan
Felix Stephan
Maarten Inghels
2012: why?
With short stories by:
Antonia Baum
Eurig Salisbury
Francesca Scotti
Andrea Lundgren
2011: names
With short stories by:
Susanne Heinrich
Paolo Piccirillo
Anna Lewis
Kallia Papadaki
2010: sea
With short stories by:
Dora Albanese
Catrin Dafydd
Clemens Setz
Stefania Mihalache
2009: 4 am
With short stories by:
Paul Brodowsky
Gabriele Dadati
Owen Martell
Céline Robinet
2008: sunshine
With short stories by:
Cynan Jones
Giovanni Montanaro
Thomas von Steinaecker
Seray Şahiner
2007: disquiet
With short stories by:
Eirik Ingebrigtsen
Caryl Lewis
Thorsten Palzhoff
Chiara Valerio
David Machado
2006: Casablanca
With short stories by:
Cristiano Cavina
Aneirin Karadog
Kirsten Fuchs
Gaute Heivol
Ana Prieto Nadal
2005: elsewhere
With short stories by:
Marco Archetti
Fflur Dafydd
Gunnhild Oyehaug
Daniel Odija
Antje Ravic Strubel
2004: monsters
With short stories by:
Ingeborg Arvola
Valeria Parrella
Owen Sheers
Gernot Wolfram
2003: borders
With short stories by:
Bjarte Breiteig
Richard John Evans
Angharad Price
Flavio Soriga
Tilman Rammstedt
2002: things change
With short stories by:
Rajeev Balasubramanyam
Davide Longo
Marco Mancassola
Ingo Niermann
Silke Scheuermann
Rachel Trezise
The Catalogue of the international literature festival berlin
“Human Rights” Catalogue 2017
international literature festival berlin 2017
edited by Veruschka Götz, Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
216 pages
published in September 2017
ISBN 978-3-940384-97-3
“Democracy without Populism” Catalogue 2016
international literature festival berlin 2016
edited by Veruschka Götz, Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
162 pages
published in September 2016
ISBN 978-3-940384-88-1
“Refugees” Catalogue 2015
international literature festival berlin 2015
edited by Veruschka Götz, Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
192 pages
published in September 2015
ISBN 978-3-940384-78-2
“A Postcard to Edward Snowden” Catalogue 2014
internationales literaturfestival berlin 2014
edited by Veruschka Götz, Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
192 pages
published in September 2014
ISBN 978-3-940384-68-3
“Postcard to Europe” Catalogue 2013
internationales literaturfestival berlin 2013
edited by Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
196 pages
published in September 2013
ISBN 978-3-940384-60-7
“Europe now” Catalogue 2012
internationales literaturfestival berlin 2012
edited by Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
208 pages
published in September 2012
ISBN 978-3-940384-50-8
Berlin Views # Catalogue 2011
edited by Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
176 pages
ISBN 978-3-940384-43-0
Berlin Views # Catalogue 2010
edited by Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
263 pages
ISBN 978-3-940384-36-2
Berlin Views # Catalogue 2009
edited by Joëlle Jobin and Ulrich Schreiber
236 pages
ISBN 978-3-940384-27-0
Berlin Views # Catalogue 2008
edited by Hanno Depner and Ulrich Schreiber
192 pages
ISBN 978-3-940384-17-1
Verlag Vorwerk 8
Writing Space III Catalogue 2007
edited by Hanno Depner and Ulrich Schreiber
264 pages
ISBN 978-3-930916-94-8
Writing space II Catalogue 2006
edited by Hanno Depner and Ulrich Schreiber
240 pages
ISBN 3-930916-83-5
Writing Space Catalogue 2005
edited by Hanno Depner and Ulrich Schreiber
256 pages
ISBN 3-930916-78-9
Make answer, muse! Catalogue 2004
edited by Ulrich Schreiber
240 pages
ISBN 3-930916-67-3
What makes the poet tick? Catalogue 2003
edited by Ulrich Schreiber
264 pages
ISBN 3-930916-64-9
Who am I, has become something different. What is there? Catalogue 2002
edited by Ulrich Schreiber
432 pages
ISBN 3-930916-57-6
Die Welt und ich haben gemeinsame Augen. Catalogue 2001
edited by Ulrich Schreiber
446 pages
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