Award Ceremony: Hidden Movers Award
It’s official: our Poetry Project has won the Hidden Movers Award from the Deloitte Foundation in the "Growth Phase" category!
»Be by my side me and see what has happened to me.«
The Poetry Project is an innovative literary dialogue project that supports young people with refugee backgrounds as they express their experiences through poetry. The project specifically uses the poetic form to express and preserve feelings and stories in verse. Things that seem unspeakable at first are transformed into an artistic dialogue; conversely, things that once seemed “foreign” become more familiar.
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Zwischen Forschung und Praxis – Ein Interview mit Manja Stephans
Die HU Berlin veröffentlichte ein Interview mit Manja Stephan über unsere Zusammenarbeit im Rahmen von „Berlin Belonging“. Sie geht dabei auf die entdeckte Schnittstelle zwischen Poesie und Forschung ein und reflektiert das Projekt und daraus gewonnene Erkenntnisse. Aber lest selbst – den Link findet ihr hier.
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Podcast Special: Martin Durm in conversation with Rojin Namer
Martin Durm is an award-winning former ARD radio reporter and foreign correspondent. He has received multiple prizes for his reporting on the Middle East. In this portrait series, Martin Durm introduces the poets of The Poetry Project. In this episode, he talks with Rojin Namer about arrival, belonging, and memories of Damascus.
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Our new book is here!
The anthology "Be by my side and see what has happened to me" was published in collaboration with PEN Berlin. It is the result of our workshops over the past one and a half years and brings together the writings of 32 young poets. The book was released in November 2024 by Verbrecher Verlag and is now available in bookstores everywhere, as well as directly from the publisher.
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Anthologie 2019
I wanted to stay. I left.
A lyrical dialogue with tomorrow's Germans
»What can be heard in these poems is intuition, experience, and emotion, directly transformed into verbal images. Perhaps Kafka would have said: like an axe for the frozen sea within us.«
»The Poetry Project is a "hidden mover" for us because it fosters intercultural exchange and uses the power of poetry to help break down prejudices and counter anti-democratic tendencies.«
»A performance...that one already knows one day will belong in the German Historical Museum.«
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