Ich rede mit der Sprache: Zum Gedenken an Barbara Köhler

Barbara Köhler was an important and far-reaching voice of German poetry. She set standards with her work, illuminating the boundaries of language and crossing them into the other arts.

In collaboration with visual artists, she conceived installations and exhibitions, made videos with filmmakers, photographed, and taught.

She passed away on January 8, 2021, and now friends and colleagues will read from her work and talk about the poet and artist.

Reading and conversation with, among others: Jörg van den Berg, Nico Bleutge, Oswald Egger, Dagmar Fretter, Thomas Geiger, Christof Hamann, Dagmara Kraus, Nadja Küchenmeister, Brigitte Oleschinski, Karla Reimert, Ferdinand Schmatz, Tilo Schulz, Yoko Tawada, Christian Uetz, Anja Utler und Reto Ziegler.

With the kind support of the Kunststiftung NRW and the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin