Poetry at 12 – The Casa di Goethe in Turin at the Salone Internazionale del Libro

As part of the Literature Parade German as a guest language at #SalTo24, the Casa di Goethe Museum presents LYRIK UM 12 – POETRY AT 12

FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2024 – 12.00 A.M -1.00 P.M. – OVAL V22
Poetry at 12
Fragile present

With Simone Lappert (längst fällige verwilderung. Diogenes), Jan Wagner (Steine & Erden. Hanser Berlin), moderated by Gregor H. Lersch, Museum Casa di Goethe

How does contemporary poetry reflect our complex present? The texts by Simone Lappert (b. 1985) from Switzerland and Jan Wagner (b. 1971) from Germany focus on themes such as awakening, emancipation and the remarkable nature of the everyday.

SATURDAY, 11 MAY 2024 – 12.00 A.M -1.00 P.M. – OVAL V22
Poetry at 12
People, animals, landscapes

With Anja Kampmann (Il cane ha sempre fame, La nave di Teseo), Eva Maria Leuenberger (dekarnation & kyung, droschl), moderated by Gregor H. Lersch, Museum Casa di Goethe

The beauty and destruction of nature, the human body and the relationship to animals and plants are all powerfully visualised in the poems of German poet Anja Kampmann (b. 1983) and her Swiss colleague Eva Maria Leuenberger (b. 1991).

SUNDAY, 12 MAY 2024 – 12.00 A.M -1.00 P.M. – OVAL V22
Poetry at 12
Values in motion

With Barbara Juch (BARBARA, Verlagshaus Berlin), Sabine Scho (The origin of values, VATMH e. V.), moderated by Maria Carolina Foi, IIC Berlin

The Austrian poet Barbara Juch (born 1988) meets the German Sabine Scho (born 1970) here. With Juch, the scenes of everyday life and here even sport become poetry, whereas Scho sets off on a journey in search of the origins of human values.

The poets:

Barbara Juch, born in 1988 in Klagenfurt and raised in Ferlach, lives in Vienna. She studied American Literature in Vienna and New York, as well as Critical Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her poetry debut Barbara (2020) and her poetological essay Sport (2023) were published by Verlagshaus Berlin. Juch teaches at the Institute for Language Arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

Anja Kampmann, born in Hamburg in 1983, lives in Leipzig and works as a poet, novelist and translator. Her poetry collections Proben von Stein und Licht and Der Hund ist immer hungrig have been published by Hanser, as has her novel Wie hoch die Wasser steigen (High As The Waters Rise). The novel has been translated many times and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the USA. Her poetry has been honoured with various prizes, most recently the Günter Kunert Literature Prize for Poetry and the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize.

Simone Lappert, born in Aarau, Switzerland in 1985, studied literary writing at the Swiss Institute of Literature in Biel and lives in Zurich. Her debut novel Wurfschatten (Metrolit) was published in 2014. Her novel Der Sprung was published by Diogenes in 2019 and was nominated for the Swiss Book Prize. Her poetic debut längst fällige verwilderung – gedichte und gespinste (Diogenes) followed in 2022. The book received a literary prize from the city of Zurich and was included in the 2023 Poetry Highlights.
Simone Lappert is president of the Basel International Poetry Festival, a member of the jury of the Basel Poetry Prize and was Swiss curator of the Babelsprech.International poetry project. Her literary work has been promoted and awarded several times.

Eva Maria Leuenberger, born in Bern, studied at the Bern University of the Arts and now lives in Biel. Her work has received several awards, including the Basel Poetry Prize (2020), two literary prizes from the Canton of Bern (2020 and 2022), the Orphil Debut Prize of the City of Wiesbaden (2020) and the Düsseldorf Poetry Debut Prize (2021).

Sabine Scho, born in 1970, is a photographer and installation artist. She lived in São Paulo from 2006-2014 and now lives in Berlin and Rome. All her texts are located in the border area of photography, drawing, image and installation. Most recently published: Tiere in Architektur, Kookbooks 2013; The Origin of Senses together with Andreas Töpfer, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin 2015; Haus für einen Boxer, Sabine Scho, Sebastian Felix Ernst and Golden Diskó Ship, Hatje Cantz 2021; The Origin of Values, Sabine Scho and Matthias Holtmann. Edited by VATMH e. V., Berlin 2021. 2018/19, German Prize for Nature Writing 2018. Fellow of the German Academy Villa Massimo Rome 2019/2020.

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