Political Writing — Gaze Training

While journalism and non-fiction work with the actual state of society, poetry creates an idea of the (inner) world. Which perspective has not yet been told? How does one take a perspective? What images do storytellers, playwrights, and poets hold for the untold? Their voices create diversity, their view of conditions will determine how generations after us understand the world we live in today.

Participants can bring their text excerpts (in English or German). The course is aimed at beginners and advanced students (although in writing one is always a "beginner"). The workshop consists of writing exercises in which we will further develop (rough) ideas based on questions about one's own positioning in the world.

Sasha Marianna Salzmann is a novelist, playwright, essayist, and curator. Salzmann's theatre works have been translated into more than 20 languages and have been awarded, among others, with the Academy of the Arts' Art Prize for Performing Arts 2020. In 2017, the debut novel Außer sich was published and translated into 16 languages. In autumn 2021, Im Menschen muss alles herrlich sein was published. Both novels were nominated for the German Book Prize. 

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