WRITERS INK Newsletter February 2012

WRITERS INK Newsletter February 2012
Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism
is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
John Osborne
Writers Ink members
Read-Inn, 11 February, 11 am, IHK
We will meet as usual at the IHK Braunschweig (Anfahrt) on January
h
14 , at the door opposite Karstadt Gewandhaus at 11 am. If you
cannot find the door/ cannot get in, call 0160-90 88 31 55 :-)
We dedicate the first 30 minutes from 11 to 11:30 am to Writers Ink.
matters and then do 2 hours of writing and reading until 1:30 pm.
Poetry workshop with Richard Toovey,
25 February, 10 am-5 pm, Raabe-Haus
British author and translator Richard Toovey lives in Berlin. He is cofounder of the literary magazine "Border Crossing" (read the article
and regulary leads workshops for the Creative Writing Group e.V. His
poetry has been published in numerous magazines and in 2008 he
was nominated for the Forward Poetry Prize, one of Great Britain's
most valuable annual poetry competitions ( Forward Prize).
Richard will hold a poetry workshop focussing on narrative
poetry. The workshop is free for Writers Ink. Members and costs
only 15 Euros for non-members (7 Euros for students and
pupils). And, most important: It will be fun!! Call Kathrin at
05308-990430 or write to kathrin.mar@web.de for more
information and/or if you want to participate.
Let's celebrate
Birthday Party/ with voluntary writing task,
26 February, 11 am-2 pm, Raabe-Haus
A happy get-together - let us celebrate 10 years Writers Ink.!
There is also a voluntary writing task: Write a text/poem about the
De Chirico painting Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (see here).
Please bring the text with you on a USB stick so we can project it
onto the wall and read along. If you cannot be there in person, but
would like us to read and enjoy your text, feel free to send it to
marenhaas@hotmail.de.
Please feel welcome to choose one of your favorite Writers Ink-texts
of the past ten years, if you feel like reading!
Meet Christine Steffanowski
contact person @ Writers Ink. e. V. - what’s behind christine steffanowski/ in her own
words
-once been told to stick to the age of 24 until I tell people that’s changed (child of the eighties, origin:
harz)
-meticulously planned youth full of choirs, piano, church organ, theater groups, dancing
-worked for newspapers
-studied modern history, philosophy and English literary and cultural studies @ TU bs
-worked in a wine shop, for an insurance company, and helped in parental business to earn a living and
to pay her tuition
-having entered the realm of university, her creative attention was drawn from playful experiments with
language to purposive writing, now juggling to manage both at once
-rather consumes than reads books on frequent train rides (having finished off almost every title from
pratchett’s discworld series, it’s jane eyre atm)
- learned from a professor @ tubs that an incorporated association with charitable status needed
someone to assist with a competition – that’s how she became contact person @ Writers Ink. e.v.
-glad that she could be of help: answered tons of enquiries and entries via email, sorted and saved all
those texts that poured in, set up and posted on Writers Ink.’s new facebook site, and got in contact with
different people from newspapers, internet forums, and a radio station to spread the word of the DPP
th
2012 and to broadcast the 10 anniversary of Writers Ink. e.V.
-THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION – AND THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME BE A PART OF THE
DPP 2012!
Somewhere to go......in and around Braunschweig
Warmer Winter
Jaume Cabré
Jazz Lounge
Punchliner Show
12 Feb: Reading: Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist, with Verena Noll, Raabe-Haus Literaturzentrum, 3
pm, free entrance, more
Music: Jazz Lounge, with Grooveyard und SoWhat /Braunschweig, Buchhandlung Graff,
7 pm, 15 Euros, more
Movie: La casa delle favole – das Haus der Maerchen, St. Pauli-Kirche, 7 pm, more
Reading: Salon d’amour, DRK-Zentrum KaufBar, 6 pm, free entrance,donations welcome,
more
16 Feb: Movie: John Lautner, a biography of the famous American architect, in English, 7 :30 pm,
Roter Saal im Residenzschloss, 5 Euros, more
Music: The Bucket Boyz, bluegrass/rockabilly/punk, Nexus Café, 7 pm, free entrance, more
17 Feb: Braunschweiger Poetry Slam, LOT Theater, 10 Euros, 8 pm, more
23 Feb: Offene Buehne – Zeig dein Stueck!, DRK-Zentrum KaufBar, 8 pm, free entrance, more
Nachtlager, an encounter with the actors from Staatstheater Braunschweig, 8 pm, free
entrance, Haus Drei, more
24 Feb: Festival: 9. Braunschweiger Satirefest, more
Music: Wanja Lovin with The Lotus Eaters, jazz, 8 pm, Lindenhof, 17 Euros, more
Reading: Das Schweigen des Sammlers, with author Javier Cabré and actor Dietmar
Wunder, 8:15 pm, Buchhandlung Graff, more
25 Feb: Workshop: Poetry workshop with Richard Toovey, Raabe-Haus Literaturzentrum, 10 am-5
pm, free for Writers Ink. Members, 15 Euros for non-members, 7 Euros für students and
pupils, more
Reading: Hartmut El Kurdi, Brunsviga, 8 pm, 13 Euros, more
26 Feb: Writers Ink Birthday Party, Raabe-Haus-Literaturzentrum, 11 am-2 pm, free entrance.
The Punchliner Show 2012, with Axel Klingenberg and guests, 8 pm, Brunsviga, 12 Euros,
more
Somewhere to go......in the rest of Germany
Berlinale 2012
Mirko Bonné
Inge Jens
9-19 Feb: Film festival: Berlinale, more
21 Feb: Reading: Inge Jens and Uwe Naumann present their new book „Lieber und verehrter
Onkel Heinrich“, about Heinrich Mann, 8 pm, Buchhandlung Decius, Hannover, 7.50 Euros, more
22 Feb: Reading: Author/Poet Mirko Bonné reads from his translation of Sherwood Anderson’s
Winesburg, Ohio, Literaturhaus Berlin, 8 pm, Großer Saal, 3 Euros, http://www.literaturhaus-berlin.de/
23 Feb: Caf’Conf’Aragon, a literary-musical homage to Louis Aragon, Institut Francais, Berlin 7 pm8:30 pm, more
29 Feb – 2 Mar: Festival: Wortspiele, Internationales Festival junger Literatur, Muenchen, more
---> for more literature events in Berlin see more, for literature events in Niedersachsen see the
Literaturdatenbank Niedersachsen, for literature events all over Germany see the Literaturkalender für
Deutschland.
Please write..
......if you have any news you'd like to share with members of Writers Ink that have to do with your writing,
literary events, etc. I will gladly collect your inquiries & suggestions and send them out. Please write to
kathrin.mar@web.de. Deadline: First day of every month.
..... if you do not want to receive this newsletter any longer (impossible!)...
Best wishes,
Kathrin