Programme

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)