To produce understanding: A Rosmarie Waldrop night

29.11.2024 / 17:00 – 22:00

With Rosmarie Waldrop (remote) and Ann Cotten, Nikolai Duffy, Dagmara Kraus, Anouk Luhn, Theresa Mayer, Ludwig Drosch, Olaf Nicolai, Felix Schiller, The Same, and more

In 1993, the poet and translator Rosmarie Waldrop spent a year in Berlin at the invitation of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program. Waldrop’s artist file in the DAAD archives provides insights into her literary projects and networks during this period: Together with Elke Erb and Joachim Sartorius, Waldrop worked on a German translation of Keith Waldrop’s Ceremony Somewhere Else which was published by Galrev in 1995. In the same year, ‘Berlin Portfolio’, a selection of East and West German poets curated and translated by Rosmarie Waldrop, appeared in the Exact Change yearbook, as did Waldrop’s first ever book in the German-speaking context, Reproduction of Profiles / Reproduktion von Profilen, translated by Hannah Möckel-Rieke.

Taking Waldrop’s multifaceted literary activities as a starting point, our event aims to bring together scholars, poets, translators and artists to discuss and celebrate Waldrop’s influential work in the context of her poetics, her translation work and her literary networks, and as one of the many international voices shaping Berlin’s literary landscape in the 1990s – and today.

Curated by Ann Cotten, Anouk Luhn, Mathias Zeiske

A cooperation between the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program and the project “Writing Berlin” of the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective”, Freie Universität Berlin.