GUEST POET
Three evenings for friends of literature
The evening entitled Das Glück der Erde liegt auf dem Rücken der Verse (Earth’s Happiness lies on the Back of Verses) is anything but selfless.
I have used my role as host in Salzburg to invite some of the poets with whose poetry I feel an affinity to take part in a reading.
Finally I will get to see them and above all hear them: Adolf Endler, Franzobel, Steffen Jacobs, Silke Scheuermann and Jan Wagner.
I’m looking forward to this reading and, as it is well known that a joy shared is a joy doubled, I hope that in order to increase the joy even more a large and interested audience will attend.
Robert Gernhardt
Guest Poet – Robert Gernhardt
The Sound of the Sea of Words
Poems from 30 years by and with
Robert Gernhardt
accompanied by music from three centuries
– from Bach to Scott Joplin
with Frank Wolff, violoncello and
Anne Baerenz, piano
Carabinieri Hall of the Residenz
8 August 2002, 8 p.m.
Musiquette Poetique
An evening with Robert Gernhardt, Martin Mosebach – and Jacques Offenbach
Stage design Jakob Mattner
Stadtkino
9 August 2002, 8 p.m.
Earth’s Happiness lies on the Back of Verses
A high school of poetry:
Five contemporary poets as guests
of Robert Gernhardt
Rittersaal of the Residenz
10 August 2002, 8 p.m.
Tickets are available from
the Festival Ticket Office
for all three evenings for € 22,
and on 8 and 10 August also for € 40,
on 9 August for € 45
Alfred Hrdlicka,
Schubert sleeps wearing his glasses, 1982
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