There's drama everyday and everywhere. A writer's job is to extract it, connect the dots and present it to you. »House No. 49« is a piece of literary fiction that mirrors the current Zeitgeist – the forces of globalization
The malaise of despair is better cured with decadence than with providence…« When D. Kaufman was Jean-Jacques Rousseau fellow at Solitude, he wrote this beautiful insight into a procrastinators mind.
A project of research and reflection by Hungarian writer Mátyás Dunajcsik revolving around places and situations where so called »fiction« and so called »reality« intertwine.
Theodore Wheeler's debut collection of short fiction, »Bad Faith,« was published this month by Queens Ferry Press. »Violate the Leaves« was composed at Solitude.
Some of the Solituders selected their favorite book from the castle's libraries. Listen to and read what they chose and why.
»Bits of Literature« introduces fragments of literary works by the fellows, providing a glimpse at the variety of literature that is started, developed, or continued at Solitude.
»Bits of Literature« introduces fragments of literary works by the fellows, providing a glimpse at the variety of literature that is started, developed, or continued at Solitude.
»Bits of Literature« introduces fragments of literary works by the fellows, providing a glimpse at the variety of literature that is started, developed, or continued at Solitude.
»Bits of Literature« introduces fragments of literary works by the fellows, providing a glimpse at the variety of literature that is started, developed, or continued at Solitude
Embody the expansion of subjectivity: poet Ranjit Hoskote and cultural theorist Nancy Adajania approach the act of anamnesia through an essay, poems and photographs.
Why write? Pakistani author Bilal Tanweer and Vienna based writer Alice Miller negotiate this question in the nowadays unfortunately rarely used format of a letter correspondence.
What happens when poetry meets video? Former Solitude fellow Dan Boehl created poetic YouTube experiences in collaboration with old and new friends during a residency in Zagreb.
Poetry meets photography: An encounter that lets new stories emerge. By Alice Miller & Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga
Some of the Solituders selected their favorite book from the castle's libraries. Listen to and read what they chose and why.
With the novella cycle »Greenland,« the Russian poet Angelina Polonskaja published her first book of prose. A talk with the author and her translator Erich Ahrndt.
Playwright Anna Gschnitzer and media artist Fides Schopp talk about collective, democratic, and biographic approaches towards writing.
Some of the Solituders selected their favorite book from the castle's libraries. Listen to and read what they chose and why.
For the Leipzig Book Fair, some of the Solituders selected their favorite Solitude book. Listen to and read what they chose and why.
For the Leipzig Book Fair, some of the Solituders selected their favorite Solitude book. Listen to and read what they chose and why.
For the Leipzig Book Fair, some of the Solituders selected their favorite Solitude book. Listen to and read what they chose and why.
»What part of my body is mine when the last layer of my atoms is mixed with the atoms around?« – A search for the distinctive self in our repetition of gestures.
Writers from the Institut for Dramatic Writing react to the current refugee movement. Part 2: Maria Christina Hilber on material and structure of minds dissolving in terror.
Human beings are supposedly the only mammals with the ability to laugh. But, discovers Kenian writer Dominic Otiang’a, not everyone around the globe can laugh about the same thing.
How can a poem leap off the page and onto the streets? Poet and journalist Thom Donovan in conversation about Occupy Poetics, literary responses to the Occupy movement.
Writers from the Institut for Dramatic Writing react to the current refugee movement. Part 1: Anna Gschnitzer on the terrorist attacks in Paris, reality, and free fall.