Reading of Magdaléna Stárková and Inge Buck

On August 24, our subject authors Magdaléna Stárková and Inge Buck will do a joint reading in the Franz Leuwer bookstore in Bremen. The reading will be accompanied musically by Joachim Lüdtke. Magdalena Stárková becomes from her volume of poetry My next first word read.

My next first word
Poems are wanderers, as are their writers. Magdaléna Stárková's poems were created in between countries, places and languages. Home here and there and the quiet processes of getting to know each other, alienation and reconciliation are themes in the author's lyrical works. A poem wants to put down its first roots in the moments between contemplation and contemplation, but finds no ground in the space between the here of existence and the there of origin and thus grows out of a field of tension that characterizes human existence much more strongly in our time than was the case in the generations of our ancestors.

Magdaléna Stárková

Born in Ostrava, grew up in Olomouc, has lived as an author and translator in Bremen in northern Germany since 2014. Graduated from Polish and English Philology and Jewish Studies at the Palacký University in Olomouc and from Jewish Studies at the Central European University in Budapest. Magdaléna Farnesi, who writes under her maiden name Magdaléna Stárková, has won first prizes at the 2009 Poetry on the Tracks literary competition and at the Olomouc Poetry Festival.

She works as a literary translator for PLAV, the monthly magazine for world literature, among others (including texts by Cynthia Ozick, Karin Fellner and Rachel Korn). Publications in the Czech literary periodicals Host, Kulturní noviny, Lžička v šuplíku, Herberk and H_aluze and together with Marek Epstein, Viola Fischerová, Josef Monik, Petra Soukupová and others in the anthologies Moře a pláž. Prague (Listen) 2012 and O Lidech a Psech, Prague (Listen) 2013. Poems in Italian by Magdaléna Stárková are on the culture blog Alza La Mano Adesso! appeared.

In the Czech Republic, a collection of short stories entitled Modré okenice, Prague (Motto) 2015 and two volumes of poetry, Povyjan, Prague (ARSCI) 2012, and Modře a měkce, Prague (ARSCI) 2013, have been published as independent publications by Magdaléna Stárková, both with illustrations by Marie Krappmann.

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.

Unfortunately, the places are limited due to Corona, so please register at: majdle@seznam.cz.

We look forward to a large attendance!