"In hindsight, you ask yourself"

In memory of Jürgen Becker

An evening in memory, and the names the names of those who remember some names that, apart from the few who remember, hardly anyone knows.

Of all the stars in the sky most of them, and who knows what all the visible ones are called.

We only know that the sky cannot do without them cannot do without them, none can be dispensed with, because if one disappears, it becomes, even if only a little, darker, colder and emptier.

from: Jürgen Becker, Nachspielzeit. Sätze und Gedichte, Suhrkamp Verlag 2024 Jürgen Becker, one of the great contemporary German poets, died on November 7, 2024. This evening is dedicated to him and his work.

A joint event with the Literary Colloquium Berlin (lcb) With the kind support of Suhrkamp Verlag

Reading with Boris Becker | Marcel Beyer | Nico Bleutge | Thomas Böhm | Thomas Geiger | Katharina Hacker | Florian Höllerer | Norbert Hummelt | Ursula Krechel | Nadja Küchenmeister | Sabine Küchler | Renate von Mangoldt | Jürgen Nendza | Peter Neumann | Brigitte Oleschinski | Annette Pehnt | Marion Poschmann | Jan Röhnert | Joachim Sartorius | Hans-Ulrich Müller-Schwefe | Lutz Seiler | Hans Thill | Jan Wagner | Christoph Wenzel | Ernest Wichner | Herbert Wiesner | Insa Wilke