Potsdam festival of literature: reading the fruits of a summer night

housing and Prussia's Palace which is in Potsdam, from very far above. When you come Closer you discover, as always, differentiating Details, but you will be a

Potsdam festival of literature: reading the fruits of a summer night

housing and Prussia's Palace which is in Potsdam, from very far above. When you come Closer you discover, as always, differentiating Details, but you will be amazed but also about how the cliché is true. Since the villas at the Holy lake, and on the pfingstberg are a-, the living quarters in Babelsberg, on the other hand; as the supporters of the reconstruction of the garrison Church and the friends of the former inter-hotel, now the Mercure Potsdam, a GDR-Run on the Bank of the Havel river are there. Therefore, it is more subtle irony, that one of the few literary festivals, which can not fail in this year, takes place in the capital of Brandenburg.

Andreas Kilb

feuilleton correspondent in Berlin.

F. A. Z.

writing little was the Prussia, the socialists, however, if they felt, much. The lit:potsdam, but a neupreuß is, to be more precise: a Villa of the Prussian establishment, because the members of your Association, with a few exceptions, in the best location in the Arcadia of the Friedriche and Wilhelme of the original. However, in the palaces will not only sponsor, but also read.

the lady of The house writes also

If today, on Saturday, the best-selling author Ursula Poznanski in "family day" in the Park of the Villa Jacobs from her youth novel "Erebos 2" presents, look your listeners to discounts and book tree hedges, which were planned by Lenné and Sello and a West German architect couple reconstructed. The lady of the house, the Villa, Marianne Ludes, also writes, however, crime fiction; her first, she will be presenting on Sunday, told "from the machinations of an international technology group".

The Festival, which this year takes place for the eighth Time, his readings under a Motto. The theme of the opening evening in the Park of the neo-classical Villa Quandt, in the now, the Fontane archive, sits, was, of all things, "gentrification". The three guests, Anke Stelling, Lea Streisand and Jan Brandt, have described in their own way, their experiences with the housing shortage in the new and the Everyday life in the old East Berlin. Not to spoil the mood, read Brandt out of his double novel, "A house on the Land / apartment in the city," only a body which plays in Ostfriesland.

Anke Stelling, however, those Passage from your in Leipzig award-winning book, "sheep in the Dry brought just" hearing, in which the bourgeois tendencies of the post-1990 newcomers Newcomers to the city in acrid dialogues is exposed. The presenter Petra Good crowned rent the event with the appeal to the present property owners, their Apartments not only to a high-earner, but also a free-lance artist. The good intentions with which you took a stroll afterwards in the summer night, is likely to survive the next housing inspection hardly.

pictures from Istanbul, disappears

On the trail of gentrification also Orhan Pamuk converts with his Leica camera. The emergence of Pamuk from one side of the second photo band, "Orange", in göttingen, Steidl Verlag, was the occasion of a too-short, gorgeous, beautiful exhibition, which runs until Sunday in the art room Potsdam. At a good two hundred shots of the Turkish Nobel prize winner maintains that Istanbul, in which he has spent his Childhood, and with the rapid growth of the 22-million-metropolis disappears more and more. Since crooked houses from the Ottoman time are based on Byzantine walls; old men and children playing under the window bars, in front of which clothes are hung to Dry is hung up; passers-by in front of Fences and street corners in the snow.

Date Of Update: 08 August 2020, 17:20