Udo Kawasser  © Frank Blau 

Udo Kawasser studied German, French, and Spanish philology in Innsbruck and Vienna. Poet, contemporary dancer, choreographer, translator of Spanish-language literature, initiator of the POESIEGALERIE and the poetry trail in Lauteracher Ried. Numerous publications in newspapers, magazines, and anthologies in Austria and abroad. Most recently in the Jahrbuch der Lyrik, Schöffling, 2019, and Jahrbuch österreichischer Lyrik, Sisyphus, 2019. His poems have been translated into English, Croatian, Polish, Spanish, and Turkish.  https://www.poesiegalerie.at/

Poetry reading Nora Gomringer (Germany) 

Nora Gomringer  © Judith Kinitz

After years of mourning, which were sometimes deeply sad and sometimes rapid, the “principle of hope” speaks in Nora Gomringer's work in many poems that she is writing again after a phase of voicelessness. The texts by the author, who has been awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, among others, are cheerful to cloudy, the poems grotesquely funny. They almost always deal with relationships, sometimes with monsters, illnesses, and the fashions of the times. When she makes films, Gomringer always strives for elegance and relevance, and she is happy to have the “little yellow square” in her luggage, a kind of geometric family constellation. https://nora-gomringer.de/

Poetry film screening: A poetic short fairy tale with a cast of personified geometric 
shapes serves as a reminder that families and their constellations come in all forms 
and sizes.