Book premiere "Time and Memory" by Inge Buck

We are looking forward to the book premiere of the new book of poetry time and memory by the Bremen author Inge Buck am 11. August in the Bookstore Franz Leuwer a 7:00 p.m.

With time and memory lays the Bremen author Inge Buck another engaging volume of poetry. The poems deal with the author's experiences and adventures during visits to museums and historical places. The volume contains poems that were written on trips between 1980 and 2020 and thus traces Buck's literary development during these years.

Heidrun Immendorf will welcome the guests on the evening of the event. The event will also be musically accompanied by Madjid Mohit with guitar and singing.

The book premiere is a cooperation between the Bremer Literaturkontor, the Bremen City Library and the Franz Leuwer bookstore.

time and memory

What was and remained is inscribed in memory. The poems are their notes. Art captures in words and pictures what life was like, what shaped it, what it is. Numerous poems have been written over the years on journeys between Oslo and Vienna, Amsterdam and Berlin, Krakow and Herisau. Landscapes pass by, cities, people, events, a museum of abundance that unfolds from memory.

We experience the paintings in the Niaux cave, read the Egyptian Book of the Dead, visit Sanssouci, stand on the Lidice hill, walk through Jewish cemeteries, encounter Gryphius' world and Franz Kafka, Paul Klee, Frida Kahlo, Robert Walser. And much more. Time is captured in pictures and things in the museum, time stands still and can be opened up again when poems are written about things or pictures in the museum

 Niaux

In the caves

von Niaux

stay the eyes

the animals

in the dark

under the earth

for forty thousand years

opened

Times coincide, time is always the present of the poem. time and memory  therefore stands in a double sense: on the one hand for the museum dimension, on the other hand for the biographical aspect of the author's work. The graphics by Gunther Gerlach in time and memory are encounters with the poems, individual encounters for everyone who reads the poems. Pairing poetry with illustrations means bringing both into a dialogue that readers will listen to. The graphics are ink drawings, abstractions that live from the surface and the lines. They take pictures of the poems, alienate them and thus open them up to a new reality.

Inge Buck

Inge Buck was born in Tübingen in 1936. She studied literature and theater in Tübingen, Munich and Vienna. After completing her doctorate, she worked as an editor in the radio play department of Deutschlandfunk in Cologne. She worked as a cultural scientist at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences. She lives and works as an author in Bremen. She writes poetry and short prose, radio features and audio visuals, has edited biographies and anthologies, and published several volumes of poetry. In 1995 she received the Robert Geissendörfer Prize and in 2017 the Prague Literature Scholarship.

We look forward to a lively participation in the book premiere

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