“I am not censoring myself at all”: Mudar Al-Khufash at the Berliner Ringtheater Palestinian-German artist Mudar Al-Khufash brings his lecture-performance Dialectics of Erasure to the Berliner Ringtheater. It runs through Sunday April 19.

"My god, it took a genocide for people to want to know what's going on."

This weekend, Mudar Al-Khufash is staging his lecture-performance Dialectics of Erasure at the Berliner Ringtheater.

@return2sanders.bsky.social spoke to him for HEIST

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Stolen Children • EQUATOR On Switzerland’s hidden persecution of the Yenish people

Lots of cool stuff coming out of Equator, a new mag with an explicitly international outlook that challenges western dominance of culture and society.

This is a fascinating piece on how Switzerland harassed the Yenish and Sinti, two Traveler communities, from 1926-1973.

Alien Nation | Sydney Review of Books From Berlin, Alexander Wells pays homage to Antigone Kefala (1931-2022). Attuned to migrants’ sense of displacement, Kefala’s writing, Wells argues, brought a new sensitivity to the alienating effects...

I wrote about the poetry and prose of Antigone Kefala, one of the Great Australian Writers of all time >>

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Here it is, My First Fiction Publication. Big 🩷 to the Auflauf gang. You should subscribe!

April Books: Zaqtan, Mehr, Biedermann New poetry from Ghassan Zaqtan, Mariella Mehr's short prose, and a novel by Nelio Biedermann—plus some informative verse

A wonderful set of reviews: @ajbwells.bsky.social on poems from Palestine's greatest living poet; @return2sanders.bsky.social on unsettling short prose from the Yenish writer; and @biettetimmons.bsky.social on the book we're all supposed to be reading.

(Plus our gossip columnist goes lyrical.)

Land der Dichter & Denker ohne Leser?

Ken Krimstein: ‘I wanted to look at Hannah from the other end of the telescope.’ The New Yorker cartoonist talks about Hannah Arendt on the page and stage

"I like comics because it’s kind of a bastard medium, and I think graphic narrative theater is too. It’s the vision."

Ken Krimstein talked to @return2sanders.bsky.social about writing novel about Hannah Arendt – and then seeing it become a play at the Deutsches Theater.

Berlin Film Festival Boss to Accept New Advisory Board and “Antisemitism Code of Conduct” (Report) Tricia Tuttle came under fire following pro-Palestinian speeches by Berlinale award winners at this year's awards gala.

the terms are unacceptable. Tuttle should resign
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March Books: McDonald, Franck, Ismaïl Poems by Matthew McDonald and novels from Julia Franck and Agri Ismaïl, plus some gossip from our new correspondent.

Another great set of books this month: Matthew McDonald's debut poetry collection @ajbwells.bsky.social; Julia Franck's autobiographical novel @return2sanders.bsky.social; and Agri Ismaïl's account of dislocation and late capitalism @brynstole.bsky.social. Plus some EXPLOSIVE new gossip...

#Berlin "The Sea Is There, But We Are Not"
Literature from #Palestine
Reading & conversation with
Alaa Alqaisi, Asmaa Azaizeh, Maha El Hissy @mahaelhissy.bsky.social & Ahmed Saleh, music by Cham Saloum

Heute Abend ab 19:30 Uhr, Eintritt kostenfrei, Eingang rollstuhlgerecht (leider nicht die WCs)

What's one of the great openings to a story, poem, novel or essay?

Tobias Ryan: ‘I dealt with it for ten years—now someone else can have it.’ The minor literature[s] Editor-in-Chief on his new novel GLANTZ

In the Auflauf's first monthly author interview, @mathildegm.bsky.social dials up @tobiasvryan.bsky.social in his Parisian garret to talk about unrelatable fiction, @minorliteratures.bsky.social, and the Unreal (European) City of his soul .......

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Tobias Ryan: ‘I dealt with it for ten years—now someone else can have it.’ The minor literature[s] Editor-in-Chief on his new novel GLANTZ

interview @ The Auflauf

with thanks to @mathildegm.bsky.social

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Tobias Ryan: ‘I dealt with it for ten years—now someone else can have it.’ The minor literature[s] Editor-in-Chief on his new novel GLANTZ

@tobiasvryan.bsky.social has written a gross, beautiful, challenging book about a horrible man who won't leave you alone – and I got to talk to him about it for The Auflauf:

Check out The Auflauf, a new substack of Berlin books. Our first course: @mathildegm.bsky.social on Reimann, @brynstole.bsky.social on Clark, & me on Maci. @ajbwells.bsky.social is in the kitchen too helping cook and dish up lit crit, goss & conversations: theauflauf.substack.com

Have all the haters just forgotten about freemasonry?

Heute um 14 Uhr !

A few thoughts about the NYT critics shakeup: Theater is one of the hardest of all disciplines to cover as a critic (or reporter). You need to know its language and history. And there's a ton you can and should do to educate yourself. But you can never "catch up." You can't see what you didn't see.>

On Florentina Holzinger’s latest opera, by @return2sanders.bsky.social‬

A handsome looking novel called Poor Ghost! with endorsements from Claire Messud, Lara Williams, Wendy Erskine, Tim MacGabhann, Julianne Pachico, and Aidan Cottrell-Boyce

My debut novel, Poor Ghost! is out today with @sceptrebooks.bsky.social

It’s about class, mourning, love, fathers, Manchester, and lots of other stuff.

I’m proud of it and I hope you’ll enjoy it too.

Dass der Zentralrat besorgt ist vom Beschluss der @die-linke.de, die IHRA-Arbeitsdefinition abzulehnen und die Jerusalem Declaration (JDA) anzunehmen, kann man ihm glauben. Aber seine Argumentation gegen die JDA ist so nicht haltbar. Vier Punkte. 1/ x.com/ZentralratJu...

„Dass die IHRA-Definition von Regierungen angenommen wurde, ist weitgehend Ergebnis politischer Kampagnen von Akteuren im Einklang mit der israelischen Regierung. Es gibt ausreichend Belege, dass die IHRA v. illiberalen Kräften instrumentalisiert wird, um Freiheiten & Menschenrechte zu untergraben.“

Bait and Switch – the Diasporist So what about Chialo’s legacy? No reasonable person could say that his work has consolidated the strength of culture or fostered “social cohesion.” To the contrary, animosity and mistrust now reign be...

An interesting layered take on Joe Chialo and the dismantling of funding for progressive arts projects in Berlin, plus whether mockery helps.
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Berlin Launch: Elegy, Southwest - Lettrétage Reading & Discussion Join us on May 9th for the launch of „Elegy, Southwest“ , the hotly anticipated second novel by Australian-born Berlin author Madeleine Watts. Watts will be joined by local critic...

Book launch in Berlin tomorrow >>>

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Now get rid of the AfD policies and attitudes that the CDU/CSU has adopted.