lyrikline.org hosts contemporary international poetry as audio (read by the authors) and text (original versions and translations), plus bibliographies and biographies for each poet.
lyrikline.org was started in November 1999 as a German-language site. [1] In November 2000, lyrikline.org expanded into a multilingual platform.
In November 2001, several institutions, including the Goethe-Institut and the Central and Regional Library for Berlin established a lyrikline.org network to promote the international exchange of poets, poetry and translations by supporting the website.[ citation needed ]
lyrikline.org is a project supported by the German Commission for UNESCO and of the former president of the German Parliament, Wolfgang Thierse. lyrikline.org was honored as a notable cultural project with the United Nations Logo for 2001, the “Year of Dialogue among Civilizations”. In 2005, lyrikline.org won the Grimme Online Award for Culture and Entertainment, the jury of which stated that it was an outstanding combination of content, form and function. [2] In 2008, it was given the title Ort im Land der Ideen ("Landmark in the Land of Ideas") during the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin (Literature Workshop of Berlin). [3]
1611 poets, 14562 poems, 91 languages, 23354 translations and 3638 translators are represented on lyrikline.org. [4]
Mascha Kaléko was a German-language poet.
Chirikure Chirikure, is a Zimbabwean poet, songwriter, and writer. He is a graduate of the University of Zimbabwe and an Honorary Fellow of University of Iowa, US. He worked with one of Zimbabwe's leading publishing houses as an editor/publisher for 17 years, until 2002. He now runs a literary agency and also works as a performance poet, cultural consultant and translator.
Herta Müller is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf, Timiș County in Romania; her native language is German. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.
Durs Grünbein is a German poet and essayist.
Mati Shemoelof, is an Israeli author, poet, editor, journalist and activist. His first short story collection, "Remnants of the Cursed Book", won the 2015 award for Best Book of the Year of "Yekum Tarbut" website. "Bagdad - Haifa - Berlin" - His first Bi-Lingual collection of poems was published in Germany by Aphorisma Verlag.
Norbert Hummelt is a German poet, essayist and translator.
Friederike Mayröcker was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, radio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avantgarde poet, and as one of the leading authors in German. Her work, inspired by art, music, literature and everyday life, appeared as "novel and also dense text formations, often described as 'magical'." According to The New York Times, her work was "formally inventive, much of it exploiting the imaginative potential of language to capture the minutiae of daily life, the natural world, love and grief".
The Grimme-Preis is one of the most prestigious German television awards. It is named after the first general director of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Adolf Grimme. It has been referred to in Kino magazine as the "German TV Oscar".
Paul Gratzik was a German dramatist and novelist. He came to wider public attention in 2011 as the subject of the documentary film Vaterlandsverräter by Annekatrin Hendel about his past as a Stasi informer.
Ann Cotten is an American-born Austrian writer.
The online portal Greenpilot is a service provided by the German National Library of Medicine, ZB MED.
Christian Ide Hintze was an Austrian poet and performance artist, who focused on the transition from literary to cross-media forms.
Jarkko Olavi Tontti is a Finnish novelist, poet, essayist and lawyer. He is former member of PEN International Executive Board and former president of Finnish PEN.
Andrea Heuser is a German writer, poet, translator and literary scholar.
Uljana Wolf is a German poet and translator known for exploring multilingualism in her work.
Barbara Köhler was a German poet and translator.
Jan Wagner, is a German poet, essayist and translator, recipient of the Georg Büchner Prize and Leipzig Book Fair Prize.
Nikola Madžirov is a Macedonian poet, editor and translator. He has been a guest at several literary festivals across the globe and has been translated into more than thirty languages. He is a recipient of Hubert Burda European Poetry Award, the Miladinov Brothers poetry prize and has been a writer in residence at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program and LiteraturRaum in Berlin. His works have appeared in magazines like Words Without Borders, Poetry Foundation, and World Literature Today.
Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss are renowned German new media artists. Since the mid-1980s, they have been instrumental in bridging the gap between new media art, computer science and knowledge art. Internationally recognized for their work in interactive environments, virtual reality (VR), mixed reality (MR), and knowledge discovery (KD), they are considered pioneers in new media art, community building and integrating transdisciplinary practices.
Brigitte Oleschinski is a German political scientist and poet.
during the festival will be awarded with the title 'Landmark in the Land of Ideas' ('Ort im Land der Ideen')