Power of Feminist Writing: Creating Feminist, gender-sensitive language Published: 20 June 2023 Event documentation As one of the primary tools for narrative shaping, the panel of this online seminar explored how reclaiming language can prove empowering for the feminist movement. By Abhinaya Sridhar
The power of poetry Published: 19 December 2022 Essay How does my writing work? Mely Kiyak addresses this big question against the backdrop of Heinrich Böll's Nobel Prize lecture, in which he dealt with the unfathomable prerequisite for his own writing. By Mely Kiyak
"Poetry is not a class privilege." Published: 13 December 2022 Interview In the book "Collected Silence," Sharon Dodua Otoo has opened up new perspectives on the life and work of Heinrich Böll. In an interview, the writer now explores the now famous Nobel Prize lecture that Heinrich Böll wrote fifty years ago. A conversation about the possibility of language, poetry and other realities - beyond prevailing reason. By Frank Steinhofer
Bidoon: A Cause and Its Literature Are Born Published: 2 June 2021 In a brilliant and personal essay on the history of Bidoon literature, Mona Kareem shows why literature cannot be thought along national lines. By Mona Kareem
The lost amour of journalistic integrity: how violence develops and where it can lead Published: 13 December 2017 A pamphlet This essayistic anachronism imagines Böll's novella The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1974) as if it were unfolding in contemporary times in an era of populism and rising conservatism, in which female sexuality is still richly milked as a sensational cover for abuse of patriarchal power. By Amanda Lee Koe
The Unthinkable in Climate Change: A View from Asia on Literature and Politics Published: 7 September 2016 Amitav Ghosh’s new book “The Great Derangement” examines climate change and climate policy from unusual perspectives. It is bound to get much international attention because it asks some fundamental new questions concerning the handling of climate change in literature and activist politics, and because it represents a well-known voice from Asia. By Axel Harneit-Sievers
"Peace is only a word, but one that has great meaning” Published: 18 June 2014 Basigul Sharifi writes poems about love and tragedy in life. She has experienced the life of a refugee and is a sensitive, calm but highly motivated person. In the interview she talks to us about poetry, peace and suffering.
