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Aga Ujma at the last Vocations evening © Andrea Vollmer

Award Ceremony of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize © Natalia Reich

Brandon Kilbourne at the Award Ceremony of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize © Natalia Reich

Verlagshaus Berlin celebrates their birthday at Haus für Poesie © Natalia Reich

Award Ceremony of this year's Open Mike © Natalia Reich

Workshop Wald pflanzen, Wald schreiben © Andrea Vollmer

This year's winner of the Georg-Büchner-Preis: Ursula Krechel © Natalia Reich

An evening in honour of Emily Dickinson © Natalia Reich

Claudia Rankine at Poesiefestival Berlin 2025 © Natalia Reich

Writing Identities at Poesiefestival Berlin 2025 © Natalia Reich

Performance by Farkhondeh Shahroudi at Poesiefestival Berlin 2025 © Natalia Reich

Zebra Poetry Film Festival took place during Poesiefestival Berlin © Natalia Reich

Abdalrahman Alqalaq at the reading of Lyrik-Empfehlungen 2025 © Natalia Reich

Our series at Deutsche Oper Berlin comes to an end © Natalia Reich

AVRINA at the UNESCO-Welttag der Poesie © Natalia Reich

Jan Wagner at the memorial event for Jürgen Becker © Natalia Reich

Haus für Poesie in Berlin stands for unique, often multilingual poetic event formats. We regard poetry as an independent art form that goes beyond the traditional literary event. Due to its openness and its permeability to other art forms, poetry is not limited to readings, but opens up many exciting possibilities for creatively engaging with spaces and practices.

In addition to our extensive Monthly Program, workshops in Poetry in Education and the globally unique platform Lyrikline are central to our work at Haus für Poesie. We also organize one of Europe’s most renowned and largest poetry festivals, Poesiefestival Berlin, as well as Zebra Poetry Film Festival, one of the oldest international festivals for poetry films.

Since 1993, Haus für Poesie has hosted Open Mike, an important competition for young literature. In addition, since 2023, the series Vocations focuses on all forms of vocal and musical practices rooted in poetry.

These and many other temporary projects have been continuously developed since 1991, when Haus for Poesie was known as literaturWERKstatt berlin. Many of our projects are based on concepts conceived collaboratively with artists and curators in open, participatory, and transdisciplinary processes. We present poetry in all languages, translated into both German and English, and actively promote German-language poetry as well as poets from around the world through our extensive cooperation network and our online platform Lyrikline.

Haus für Poesie is the only publicly funded literary institution in Germany dedicated solely to poetry. It receives funding from the Department of Culture and Social Cohesion of the State of Berlin and is operated by the Non-Profit Association Literaturbrücke Berlin e.V.

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