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Anne Carson at Poesiefestival 2026 at Akademie der Künste © Natalia Reich

Anne Carson and Robert Currie at Poesiefestival 2026 at Akademie der Künste © Natalia Reich

Poets' Corner 2026 © Natalia Reich

Poets' Corner at Silent Rixdorf 2026

International Festival Makers' Meeting 2026 at Haus für Poesie © Andrea Vollmer

Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç at Poets' Corner 2026 at Kotti-Shop © Natalia Reich

Steloo © Andrea Vollmer

Brandon Kilbourne at the Award Ceremony of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize 2025 © Natalia Reich

Award Ceremony of Open Mike - Competition for Young Litertaure 2025 © Natalia Reich

Seán Hewitt at Poesiefestival 2026 © Natalia Reich

Winner of the Georg-Büchner-Preis 2025: Ursula Krechel © Natalia Reich

Autumn Workshop at Haus für Poesie © Andrea Vollmer

An evening in honour of Emily Dickinson © Natalia Reich

Amanda Becker © Andrea Vollmer

Claudia Rankine at Poesiefestival Berlin 2025 © Natalia Reich

Re-Writing a Canon at Poesiefestival Berlin 2026 © Natalia Reich

Performance by Farkhondeh Shahroudi at Poesiefestival Berlin 2025 © Natalia Reich

An evening with Batool Abu Akleen, Alaa Alqaisi, Abdalrahman Alqalaq & Bakr Khleifi at Poesiefestival 2026 © Natalia Reich

Zebra Poetry Film Festival 2026 took place during Poesiefestival Berlin © Natalia Reich

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

James Noël at Poets' Corner 2026 at daadgalerie © Andrea Vollmer

Weltklang – Night of Poetry 2026 with Stanisław Kalina Jaglarz, Valzhyna Mort, Mia You, Laura Vazquez, Rudi Burkhardt,  Milena Marković, Lorna Goodison

Aga Ujma © Andrea Vollmer

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 at the Young Haus für Poesie and the globally unique platform Lyrikline are central to our work at Haus für Poesie. The participatory program for all age groups can be found under Participate. tWe 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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