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Valeri Scherstjanoi
Born in 1950 in the Soviet Union | German language studies at the State University of Krasnodar / Russia | 1979 relocated to East Germany | At the beginning of the 1980s failed attempt to work as a Russian teacher in the national education system | 1983 – 85 night watchman in a Berlin boarding school for deaf children | Afterwards free-lance interpreter and translator | Underground performances in East Germany | 1982 meeting with Carlfriedrich Claus, actual beginning of his own experimental sound poetry | Publication in the west | 1989 – 1993 work in the studio of Robert Rehfeldt | Has dealt with the history of Russian futurism since 1968 and first readings in this time period | Since 1981 active in East Berlin as a freelance sound poet, author and drawer (scribentist) | Between the political transition and today over 300 performances, readings in most countries of western Europe at international festivals and expositions of »ars scribendi / poesia sonora« | Numerous radiophone dramas on BR (Bavarian Radio), WDR (West German Radio), DLR (Deutschland Radio) among others | 1990 – 2000 Member of the Bielefeld Colloquium for Contemporary Poetry | Since 2006 Member of the Free Academy of Arts in Leipzig
Prices and Scholarships since 2000
Working scholarship for Berlin Authors, Senate Chancellery for Cultural Affairs 2007 | Art: Raum Sylt-Quelle 2005 | Käthe Dorsch Foundation Berlin 2002 / 2003 | Hans-Erich-Nossack Scholarship from the Umbrella Association of German Industry for Literature 2003 | Villa Waldberta Representative for Culture Munich 1998 | Scholarship from the Berlin Kulturfonds 1997
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Experimental poetry in the land of sounds
Experimental poetry is a concept which includes areas such as hermetic lyricism, and concrete or phonetic poetry. The course offers practical sound exercises and phonetic gymnastics, as well as discourses, and reflections on the poetic experiments in Russian futurism and in German-language dada-ism, as well as in concrete poetry after 1945.
Original sound recordings of the poets shall be analyzed in order for the participants to create their own and simultaneous sound texts.
The prerequisite for participating in the course is that you write poems. Tongue-twisters, metered verses, glossolalia, and onomatopoeia were previous examples of poetic experiments from which this course could also benefit.
Participation requirements
Pleasure in language experiments and sound presentations, a zest for experimenting with language to sample the sounds on the tongue. The participants in the course will embark on new expeditions in the land of sounds and work with early childhood sound vocabulary and tones. This does not mean that we entirely do without semantics; everyone maintains his or her creative freedom.
Application documents
You may freely select the themes for your submitted work. You may submit not only the sound poems, sound texts, sound images on CD, but also your own written texts, which you believe are suitable for a sound-poetry presentation.
Maximum number of participants: 12
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