Munich: poetry readings with Ronya Othmann and Federico Italiano – Munich
In Munich, the poet Jan Wagner first introduced his young colleague Ronya Othmann to the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, followed by his Italian colleague Federico Italiano in the Poetry Cabinet.
He is “a border crosser, a converter between the worlds”. This is what it says in the epilogue to a new volume of poetry by the Italian poet Federico Italiano, who lives in Vienna. His fellow writers translated his volume “Seven Types of White”. Jan Wagner and Raoul Schrott, and they can all be heard together on December 14th at the Lyrik Kabinett. Wagner will travel to Munich days beforehand: on December 12, the poet will introduce his young colleague Ronya Othmann to the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, who will receive the Horst Bienek Promotional Prize there a day later (the main prize goes to Judith Herzberg ). Othmann, born in Munich in 1993, can also be described as a wanderer between the worlds. In your Debut novel “The Summers” from 2020 she tells about a schoolgirl who spends her holidays in her grandparents’ Syrian-Kurdish village. The one who appeared afterwards is also haunting Book of Poems “The Crimes”in which she is reminiscent of a vanished world, of violence and flight, of landscapes and people dying in them.
Ronya Othmann, Mon., Dec. 12/ Tue., Dec. 13, each 7 p.m., Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Max-Joseph-Platz 3, badsk.de; Federico Italiano, Wed., Dec. 14, 7 p.m., Poetry Cabinet, Amalienstr. 83, www.lyrik-kabinett.de