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.
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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Testimonies of the Future - Stories of Tomorrow's Germans
Unfortunately, contemporary German literature does not adequately reflect our rapidly changing society. Most refugees — especially those who are young — have come to Germany to stay. However, they can only fully arrive in Germany when they can contribute to the social discourse and when society listens to what they have to say. Otherwise, they are here only in a physical sense. This means participating in the narratives that shape collective identity and the bonds that hold society together.
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Anthologie 2019
Ich wollte bleiben. Ich ging.
Ein lyrischer Dialog mit Deutschen von morgen
»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.«
»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.«
»A performance...that one already knows one day will belong in the German Historical Museum.«
