Programme of the IV International Poetry Festival MERIDIAN CZERNOWITZ
September 6-8, 2013, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
06.09.2013, Friday
09:50 – 11:10, Friday
Event: Presentation of the German Academy of Language and Poetics. Free entrance
Participants: Yoko Tawada (DE), Ralph Dutli (CH/DE), Jan Wagner (DE), Klaus Reichert(DE)
Moderator: Hanne Kulessa (DE)
Location: Red Hall of the Chernivtsi National Yuri Fedkovych University – former residence of the Bukovynian Metropolitans (Kotsyubynskyi str., 2)
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11:30 – 12:00, Friday
Event: Official Opening of the Festival. Free entrance
Moderator: Iryna Vikyrchak (UA)
Location: Marble Hall of the Chernivtsi National Yuri Fedkovych University (Kotsyubynskyi str., 2)
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12:30– 13:30, Friday
Event: Presentation of the book by Taras Prokhasko and Yuri Izdryk. Free entrance .
Participants: Taras Prokhasko (UA), Yuri Izdryk (UA)
Moderator: Iryna Vikyrchak (UA)
Location: Palace of Culture – the former Jewish National House (Teatralna square, 5, second floor)
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14:00 – 15:00, Friday
Event: Poetry reading. Free entrance .
Participants: Nora Iuga (RO), Yuri Tarnavskyi (USA)
Moderators: Kateryna Babkina (UA), Marin Herman (UA)
Location: Former School of Mihai Eminescu and Yuri Fedkovych (Shkilna str., 4)
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15:30 – 16:30, Friday
Event: Discussion about the translation of Robert Walser’s texts
Participants: Juri Andruchowytsch (UA), Volha Hapeieva (BY), Malgorzata Lukasiewicz (PL)
Moderator: Iryna Vikyrchak
Location: House of Youth – Former Regional Parliament of Bukovina (Sheptitskyi str., 10)
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17:00 – 18:00, Friday
Event: Poetry reading. Free entrance
Participants: Elena Fanailova (RU), Ralph Dutli (DE)
Moderators: Petro Rykhlo (UA), Igor Pomerantsev (GB)
Location: Newspaper “Bukovyna” office – the former office of the newspaper “Radianska Bukovyna” (Ukrainska str., 22)
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18:30 – 20:00, Friday
Event: Poetry reading. Free entrance .
Participants: Klaus Reichert (DE), Hans Thill (DE), Marianna Kiyanovska (UA),
Moderator: Petro Rykhlo (UA)
Location: The City Hall Gallery (Central sq., 1)
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20:30 – 22:00, Friday
Event: Musical-thatrical performance “Herzkeime” based on the poetry by Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger and Nelly Sachs. Free entrance
Participants: Martina Roth (DE), Johannes Connen (DE)
Location: Palace of Culture – the former Jewish National House (Theatre sq., 5, secnd floor)
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22:30 – 24:00, Friday
Event: Wine and poetry evening. Poetry reading. Free entrance .
Participants: Igor Pomerantsev (GB), Oles Ilchenko(UA), Mariana Savka (UA)
Moderator: Igor Pomerantsev (GB)
Location: Summer terrace of the club Sorbonne (Universytetska str., 21A)
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24:00 – 04:00, Friday
Event: Electro-poetry party. Entrance 50 UAH
Participants: FullCasual (UA), Tonika (UA), Derrick (UA), SkyWeep (MD), daKooka (UA)
Location: Club Sorbonne (Universytetska str., 21 A)
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07.09.2013, Saturday
10:30 – 10:50, Saturday
Event: Presentation of the Literary Celan Center (at the corner of O. Kobylianska str. and Cheliuskintsiv str.)
Participants: Petro Rykhlo (UA)
Location: Literary Celan Center (at the corner of O. Kobylianska str. and Cheliuskintsiv str.)
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11:00 – 11:45, Saturday
Event: “Beyond the Alps” – presentation of the 7th issue of the “Prostory” magazine, dedicated to contemporary literature and art from Switaerland. Tea party from “Chashka” cafe’s. Free entrance
Participants: Iryna Sobchenko (UA)
Location: Literary Celan Center (at the corner of O. Kobylianska str. and Cheliuskintsiv str.)
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12:00 – 12:45, Saturday
Event: Presentation of the book of selected poems by Tadeusz Dąbrowski “The Black Square”
Participants: Tadeusz Dąbrowski (PL), Vasyl Lozynskyi (UA), Ostap Slyvynskyi (UA)
Location: Literary Celan Center (at the corner of O. Kobylianska str. and Cheliuskintsiv str.)
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13:00 Transfer: from corner of O. Kobylianska and T.Shevchenko streets to the apartment complex “Vodohrai” (S. Vorobkevych str., 31-А)
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13:30 – 15:00, Saturday
Event: Reading «Poetry of the Sleeping Districs”. Free entrance
Participants: Serhii Zhadan (UA), Енн Коттен (DE), Svitlana Povaliaieva (UA)
Moderator: Iryna Vikyrchak (UA)
Location: apartment complex “Vodohrai” (S. Vorobkevych str., 31-А)
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15:00, Saturday
Transfer: from apartment complex “Vodohrai” (S. Vorobkevych str., 31-А) to the park near the Franz Joseph’s monument and the Church of the Jesuits “Most Pure Heart of Jesus (D. Zahula str., 5). Fee 5 UAH
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15:30 – 16:45, Saturday
Event: Poetry reading. Free entrance .
Participants: Andrzej Sosnowski (PL), Ryszard Krynicki (PL)
Moderators: Marianna Kiyanovska (UA), Ostap Slyvynskyi (UA)
Location: Church of the Jesuits “Most Pure Heart of Jesus ” (T. Shevchenko str., 2).
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17:00 – 18:30, Saturday
Event: Poetry reading. Free entrance
Participants: Yoko Tawada (DE), Michael Donhauser(AT)
Moderators: Mark Bielorusets (UA), Petro Rykhlo (UA)
Location: Former school of Paul Celan and Dmytro Zahul (D. Zahul str., 8)
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21:00 – 22:30, Saturday
Event: Musical-poetical performance by Juri Andruchowytsch and the duo “Werwolf Sutra”. Free entrance
Participants: Juri Andruchowytsch (UA), Peter Konradin Zumthor (CH), Vera Kappeler (CH)
Location: Chernivtsi Regional Philarmonic Society (Filarmonii sq., 10)
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23:00 – 02:00, Saturday
Event: Night of Poetry. Free entrance
Participants: Nielsen (DN), Andriy Liubka (UA), Max Czollek (DE), Nora Gomringer (DE), Serhii Zhadan (UA), Kateryna Babkina (UA), Olena Herasymiuk (UA), Vasyl Karpiuk (UA), Olena Rybka (UA), Oleksiy Chupa (UA), Anna Maligon (UA), Roman Stadnyk (UA), Natalia Belchenko (UA), Taras Malkovych (UA), Yaroslav Gadzinskyi (UA) and ohers
Moderators: Khrystia Vengryniuk (UA), Iryna Vikyrchak (UA), Dmytro Lazutkin (UA)
Location: Palace of Culture – the former Jewish National House (Theatre sq., 5, second floor)
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08.09.2013, Sunday
11:00 – 12:30, Sunday
Event: Poetry for children. Free entrance
Participants: Mariana Savka (UA)
Location: Viennese cafe (O. Kobylianskoi str., 49)
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11:30 – 12:30, Sunday
Event: “Herzzeit” – Paul Celan’s poetry performed by Petro Rykhlo and Mark Bielorusets. Free entrance .
Participants: Petro Rykhlo (UA), Mark Bielorusets (UA)
Location: Courtyard of the Paul Celan’s birthhouse (Saksaganskyi str., 5)
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13:00 – 17:00, Sunday
Event: Open Mike
Moderator: Khrystia Vengryniuk (UA), Andriy Tuzhykov (UA)
Location: Viennese cafe (O. Kobylianska str., 49)
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13:00 -14:30, Sunday
Event: Videopoetry from Zebra Film Poetry Festival (Berlin). Free entrance
Participants: Thomas Wohlfahrt (DE)
Moderator: Kateryna Babkina (UA)
Location: Palace of Cinema named after Olga Kobylianska (O. Kobylianska str., 14)
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15:00 – 16:00, Sunday
Event: Poetry reading. Free entrance
Participants: Marion Poschmann (DE), Amir Or (IL)
Moderators: Iryna Vikyrchak (UA), Mark Bielorusets (UA)
Location: Carpentry workshops – former the Groschil Synagogue (Barbiusa str., 31)
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16:30 – 17:30, Sunday
Event: Poetry reading. Free entrance
Participants: E.A. Richter (AT), Jan Wagner (DE)
Moderators: Petro Rykhlo (UA), Mark Bielorusets (UA)
Location: Main Synagogue of Bukovyna (Sadovskyi str., 11)
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18:00 – 19:15, Sunday
Event: Theatrical performance “Jura Soyfer Revue” based on the books by Jura Soyfer (1912-1939)
Participants: Teatro caprile (AT)
Location: Palace of Culture – the former Jewish National House (Theatre sq., 5, second floor)
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19:30 – 21:00, Sunday
Event: Poetry reading. Free entrance
Participants: Nora Gomringer (DE), Andreas Neeser (CH)
Moderator: Petro Rykhlo (UA)
Location: Palace of Culture – the former Jewish National House (Theatre sq., 5, first floor)
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21:30 – 23:00, Sunday
Event: Theatrical performance “Albert or the Highest Form of Execution” based on the short story by Juri Andruchowytsch. Free entrance
Participants: Juri Andruchowytsch (UA), Uliana Gorbachevska (UA), Mark Tokar (UA)
Location: Chernivtsi Academical Musical-Dramatic Olga Kobylianska Theatre (Teatralna sq., 1)