18:30-19:15 LIVE READINGS (3) Dirk Hülstrunk, Martin Piekar, Jaromír Typlt
Saturday 26 October 2024
Jaromír Typlt, Martin Piekar, Dirk Hülstrunk
Jaromír Typlt
Jaromír Typlt is a poet, performer, and art theorist. Since 2022, he has been the curator of the Art brut gallery in Prague. He published his first books of poetry and prose in the 1990s. Most recently, in September 2024, he presented a book selection of notes from the years 1993–2023 titled *Jedna věta* (*One Sentence*) (published by Revolver Revue). In the fall, a "live" recording of a concert celebrating 15 years of *Škrábanice* was also released by the Blue Lizard label. *Škrábanice* is a collaboration between Typlt's sound poetry and Michal Rataj's experimental electronics – this new digital album follows two previously released studio albums (2014 and 2020). At the current international exhibition *Poetry and Performance* at the Hvězda Summer Palace in Prague, Typlt is represented by a short video and an artist's book created in collaboration with Jan Měřička. At the Microfestival, he has already presented, among other works, his 3D poem *Vinice* (2012, with Viktor Kopasz) as well as *Škrábanice* with Michal Rataj.
Dirk Huelstrunk
Dirk Huelstrunk is a sound poet and artist, writer, translator, creative writing teacher, host and curator of art, music and poetry events from Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Influences range from Dada, Surrealists, Fluxus, Beat-Poets to Pop and modern electronic sound poetry. He works with and between different media and frequently collaborates with other artists. Huelstrunk teaches creative writing and performance poetry and lectures on Sound Poetry, Spoken Word, Outsider Art. Huelstrunk is also a pioneer of the Spoken Word movement in Germany by way of creating Spoken Word events since 1996. Since 2014 he has been curating and hosting literature events for Frankfurt Bookfair "Guest of Honor" countries.
Martin Piekar
Martin Piekar was born to Polish parents in Germany in 1990. In 2012, he won the Open Mike award for poetry and has since received several distinctions for his work like Irseer Pegasus and Alfred-Gruber-Preis, both 2018. His first volume of poems titled Bastard Echo was published by Verlagshaus Berlin in 2014 and was followed by his second volume AmokperVers in 2018. Martin Piekars poetry crosses intercultural boundaries, emotionally grapples with personal development and explores the possibilities of subjectivity in a political realm. In 2023 his third collection of poetry named livestream & leichen was published and he won two awards (the Kelag-Preis and the audience award) at the prominent “Tage der deutschsprachigen Literatur” in Klagenfurt.