Our publications

Catalogue

The annually-published festival catalogue contains photos, biographies and selected bibliographies of all participating writers. Since 2003 the authors have additionally been asked to answer a selected question in a concise and spontaneous way. In the last three year we have asked our guest about their "writing space" and received engaging articles. Before we left their thoughts on "Make answer, muse!" In 2004 the question was "What makes the poet tick?" The huge resonance as well as the creativity of the responses surpassed our expectations: notes on restaurant table cloths, photos, collages, drafts, anagrams, poems, aphorisms, short essays in wonderful handwriting and in one case an actual stone.

The Catalogue 2007

Writing Space III
edited by Hanno Depner and Ulrich Schreiber
published by Verlag Vorwerk 8
264 pages
10 €
ISBN 978-3-930916-94-8

Due to the numerous and multifaceted author contributions to the catalogue in previous years, the motto anew was “Writing Space”: Each author was asked to send an individual answer to the motto. Their spontaneous reaction – whether it be a photo, collage, poem or object trouvé – was creatively incorporated and often released to the public for the first time. And so, an atlas of places came into being, which shows where words become sentences and texts. The motto raises a question, that André Breton once asked an illustrious circle of authors and philosophers: “How influential is the space of your writing?”, to which Raymond Federman answered : “Music is important... Jazz. As soon as I enter my study, I put on my tape player or the radio, and the music bawls the whole time while I’m working.”

The Catalogue 2006

Writing space II
edited by Hanno Depner and Ulrich Schreiber
published by Verlag Vorwerk 8
240 pages
10 €
ISBN 3-930916-83-5

The Catalogue 2004

Make answer, muse!
edited by Ulrich Schreiber
published by Verlag Vorwerk 8
240 pages
10 Euro
ISBN 3-930916-67-3

The Catalogue 2003

What makes the poet tick?
edited by Ulrich Schreiber
published by Verlag Vorwerk 8
264 pages
10 Euro
ISBN 3-930916-64-9

The Catalogue 2002

Who am I, has become something different. What is there?
edited by Ulrich Schreiber
published by Verlag Vorwerk 8
432 pages
10 Euro
ISBN 3-930916-57-6

The Catalogue 2001

Die Welt und ich haben gemeinsame Augen
edited by Ulrich Schreiber
published by Verlag Vorwerk 8
446 pages
29.90 Euro
sold out

The Berlin Anthology

Ninety-nine poems from all over the world, chosen by guests of the international literature festival berlin, are contained within this anthology. It is an extraordinary and personal collection of texts, many of which have been translated for the first time into German. All the poems are printed in their original language as well as in their German translation.

The international literature festival berlin offers visitors readings, discussions and encounters with authors of world-literature. It has established itself world-wide as one of the most important meeting points between famous writers and new, as yet undiscovered authors. The Berlin Anthology, which has accompanied the festival since 2001, reflects its diverse character and is the lasting essence which lives on following the 12 days of festivities and the authors' return to their homelands.

Berlin Anthology 2007

Alle Uhren andere Zeiten
edited by Beatrice Faßbender and Ulrich Schreiber
with a preface by Bora Cosic
Verlag Vorwerk 8
272 pages
15 €
ISBN 978-3-930916-95-5

The 2007 edition includes poems by Jehuda Amichai, Amiri Karaka, Stefan Bastovoi, Piedad Bonnett, Szilárd Borbély, John Burnside, Anne Carson, Paul Celan, Andrei Condrescu, Francis Dannemark, Jibanananda Das, John Donne, Du Fu, Gunnar Eklöf, Adolf Endler, Asli Erdogan, Hafis, Zbigniew Herbert, lê thi diem thúy, Oleh Lyscheha, Ossip Mandelstam, Hendrik Marsman, Maram al-Masri, Heiner Müller, Gellu Naum, Frank O'Hara, George Oppen, Sigitas Parulskis, Oskar Pastior, Monika Rinck, Luis Rosales, Sapphire, Friedrich Schiller, Seung Sahn, Nicholas Shakespeare, Patti Smith, George Szirtes, Blanca Varela, Anne Waldman, José Watanabe, Saadi Youssef, and Adam Zagajewski.

Berlin Anthology 2006

Das Andenken, die Bilder der Erde
edited by Beatrice Faßbender and Ulrich Schreiber
with a preface by Édouard Glissant
Verlag Vorwerk 8
272 pages
15 €
ISBN 3-930916-88-6

The 2006 edition includes poems by Gabriela Adameşteanu, Rafael Alberti, Unsi al-Hadj, Eugenijus Ališanka, Ingeborg Bachmann, Elizabeth Bishop, Bertold Brecht, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lewis Carroll, Paul Celan, Aimé Césaire, Mirza Ghalib, Louise Glück, Dieter M. Gräf, Helon Habila, Paal-Helge Haugen, Zbigniew Herbert, Sergej Jessenin, István Kemény, Jan Koneffke, Norman Manea, Henri Michaux, Octavio Paz, Edgar Allan Poe, Alastair Reid, Kenneth Rexroth, Gerhard Rühm, Marin Sorescu, Tomas Tranströmer, Paul Verlaine, Derek Walcott, and Peter Waterhouse.
 

Berlin Anthology 2005

Aus einem abgeschiedenen Land
edited by Beatrice Faßbender and Ulrich Schreiber
with a preface by Ilma Rakusa
Alexander Verlag Berlin
300 pages
15 €
ISBN 3-89581-147-5

The 2005 edition includes poems by José Lezama Lima, Alkman, Mia Couto, Gunnar Ekelöf, Elisabeth Langgässer, Allen Ginsberg, Bert Papenfuß, William Wordsworth, W.S. Merwin, Adam Zagajewski, Dylan Thomas, Heinrich Heine, Cesare Pavese, Sylvia Plath, Octavio Paz, Jannis Ritsos, and Raymond Carver.
 

Berlin Anthology 2004

Irdisches Leben, blauer Dunst
edited by Beatrice Faßbender and Ulrich Schreiber
with a preface by Michael Krüger
Alexander Verlag Berlin
286 pages
Euro 15,-
ISBN 3-89581-125-4

The 2004 edition includes poems by Chris Abani, Taha Muhammad Ali, Juri Andruchowytsch, Abbas Baydoun, Gottfried Benn, Elizabeth Bishop, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Celan, Gianni Celati, Gregory Corso, Rubén Darío, Ludwig Fels, Günter Bruno Fuchs, Aritha van Herk, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Kate Judith, Zakes Mda, Adrian Mitchell, Latiff Mohidin, Susanne Riedel, Alfian Bin Sa’ at, Anne Sexton, Charles Simic, and Xavier Villaurrutia. 

Berlin Anthology 2003

Das Gedächtnis der Wörter
with an encyclopaedic article from Hans Magnus Enzensberger
edited by Beatrice Faßbender and Ulrich Schreiber
Alexander Verlag Berlin
268 pages
15 Euro
ISBN 3-89581-108-4

The 2003 edition includes poems by Gennadij Ajgi, Dennis Brutus, Karen Connelly, Achmat Dangor, Antonio Gamoneda, Christian Ganachaud, Federico García Lorca, Zbigniew Herbert, Victor Hugo, Clara Janés, Li Shimin, Lajos Parti Nagy, Fernando Pessoa, Ljudmila Petruschewskaja, Rainer Maria Rilke, Nelly Sachs, José Angel Valente, Dieter Wellershoff, and Walt Whitman.

Berlin Anthology 2002

An den Toren einer unbekannten Stadt
with a preface by Lars Gustaffson
edited by Beatrice Fassbender and Ulrich Schreiber
Alexander Verlag Berlin
256 pages
15 Euro
ISBN 3-89581-088-6 

The 2002 edition includes poems by Petr Borkovec, Breyten Breytenbach, Raymond Carver, Paul Celan, Forrest Gander, Uri Zvi Grinberg, Irene Gruss, Yoel Hoffmann, Attila József, Edvard Kocbek, Luljeta Lleshanaku, Robert Lowell, Heiner Müller, Wole Soyinka, Jean Tardieu, Tomas Tranströmer, John Tranter, Yvonne Vera, Robert Walser, and Wang Wei.

Berlin Anthologie 2001

Die Welt über dem Wasserspiegel
with a preface by Joachim Sartorius
Alexander Verlag Berlin
256 pages
15,50 Euro
ISBN 3-89581-070-3

The 2001 edition includes poems by Jehuda Amichai, Sargon Boulus, Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Aimé Césaire, Emily Dickinson, Rita Dove, Allen Ginsberg, Rolf Haufs, Vivian Hopkirk, Ernst Jandl, Susan Kiguli, Antjie Krog, Li Qinzhao, Ossip Mandelstam, Harriet Naboro, George Oppen, György Petri, Giuseppe Ungaretti, and Marina Zwetajewa.

Scritture Giovani

Since 2002 a book containing the contributions of young "Scritture Giovani" authors has been published annually. Each year a different topic is chosen as the shared theme for short stories to be written by these young writers, and they go on to present their works personally at each festival. The book presents these works in their original form, as well as their translations into the languages of the other participating authors. The "Scritture Giovani" programme, and the publications which support it, provide the first opportunities for these writers to introduce themselves to a wider international audience.

2007:    disquiet

With short stories by:     Eirik Ingebrigtsen, Caryl Lewis,
                                   Thorsten Palzhoff, Chiara
                                   Valerio, David Machado

2006:    casablanca

With short stories by:     Cristiano Cavina, Aneirin Karadog,
                                   Kirsten Fuchs, Gaute Heivol,
                                   Ana Prieto Nadal

2005:     elsewhere

With short stories by:     Marco Archetti , Fflur Dafydd, 
                                   Gunnhild Oyehaug, Daniel Odija, 
                                   Antje Ravic Strubel

2004:     monsters

With short stories by:     Ingeborg Arvola, Valeria Parrella,
                                   Owen Sheers, Gernot Wolfram  
 

2003:     borders

With short stories by:     Bjarte Breiteig, Richard John Evans,
                                   Angharad Price, Flavio Soriga,      
                                   Tilman Rammstedt   

2002:     things change

With short stories by:     Rajeev Balasubramanyam, Davide
                                   Longo, Marco Mancassola, Ingo
                                   Niermann, Silke Scheuermann,
                                   Rachel Trezise