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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End of Year Zine Launch
To celebrate the end of the year, we are releasing our new poetry collection "Ich wünschte, ich wäre ein Tag im Sommer der Welt" with lyrical texts from this year surrounding the theme of longing and belonging.
We look forward to welcome you on December 8th, 2025 at 18:30 in our office at Max-Beer-Str. 17, 10119 Berlin to enjoy the occasion with some hot punch or mulled wine and hear a reading of some of the poems. You will also have the occasion to buy one of these limited edition zines and celebrate the end of the year with us. We look forward to seeing you!
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Zine Launch zum Jahresende
Zum Jahresende erscheint unser neuer Gedichtband “Ich wünschte, ich wäre ein Tag im Sommer der Welt” mit lyrischen Texten aus diesem Jahr zum Thema Zugehörigkeit und Sehnsucht.
Wir freuen uns, am 08. Dezember 2025 um 18:30 in unserem Büro an der Max-Beer-Strasse 17, 10119 Berlin mit Punsch und Glühwein darauf anzustoßen und einige der Gedichte in Form einer Lesung zu hören. Ihr werdet an diesem Abend auch die Gelegenheit haben, eines dieser limitierten Zines zu erwerben und gemeinsam das Jahr ausklingen zu lassen. Kommt gerne vorbei, wir freuen uns!
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Our podcast is here!
In The Poetry Project Podcast, you can get to know the poets behind the texts. In each episode, a poet talks about the stories, feelings and dreams that find expression in their poetry.
The Poetry Project Podcast is produced and hosted by Vincent Weisz. Editorial by The Poetry Project.
You can listen to the podcast here
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Nomination for the German Engagement Award 2025
We were very honored to receive the following news: We have been nominated for the German Engagement Award 2025, the highest honor for voluntary work in Germany. This ensures our project nationwide visibility. It demonstrates that our shared efforts matter. The nomination by the Hidden Movers Award is an important sign to us that shows that our commitment is seen and appreciated.
We now have the chance to win €10,000 and to present our project to a distinguished audience in Berlin on December 5, 2025. In addition, we also have the chance to win the Audience Award! All information about the public vote will be available in September. You can find out more about the German Engagement Award here: https://www.deutscher-engagementpreis.de
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Writing History Together
Since 2016, The Poetry Project has been supporting young people with refugee backgrounds on their journey to use language as a tool of empowerment. In hundreds of workshops, thousands of texts have been created – courageous, delicate, political. Our authors’ words move, connect, and transform. Today many of them are not only artists, but also citizens of this country; they have learned German, attended university, or completed vocational training. They take on responsibility – including within The Poetry Project.
As part of the project “Writing History Together”, funded by the Deutsche Postcode Lottery, twelve young adults are being trained as creative writing workshop leaders. They stand for confident, equal participation – and for a different image of integration.
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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.«
