HAUS FÜR POESIE

Wirkt Lyrik über die ihr ohnehin Zugeneigten hinaus in gesellschaftliche Bereiche wie Aktivismus, Care-Arbeit und Kreativindustrie hinein? Ist (…)

Since 2013, ten poetry experts have been selecting one German-language poetry collection and one poetry collection translated into German each year. (…)

Here they are: the three poster designs for Poesiefestival Berlin 2026. Once again designed by AG Grafik.From May on, you'll find them all over (…)

For many years, the debuts of former Open Mike finalists were published on the then-blog of Open Mike. We don’t just follow the competition readings (…)

At the SelbstVERSuche workshop “Planting a Forest, Writing a Forest” on October 12, 2025, at Spreeacker Berlin, a collective poem was created by the (…)

We are delighted that our beautiful poster from last year’s poetry festival — designed by Lennart Lofink and Philip Jursch of AG Grafik — was (…)

These are this year’s Young and Open Poems!

Reading order:11:30 – 11:45 Greeting11:45 – 12:45 Reading I: Emma Martschinke, Minda Deol, Dominik Kohl 12:45 – 13:15 Break13:15 – 14:15 Reading (…)

Please note that the interviews were only conducted in German.Um die Open Mike-Finalist:innen besser kennenzulernen, haben wir Interviews mit ihnen (…)

As part of the final launch of our new website and the redesign of our program booklet, a poster campaign was created in collaboration with designer (…)

Here, we keep you updated on the poets who are being awarded for their books or even for their entire body of work.

It is the Haus für Poesie that often commissions the first German translations of poems from other languages, especially for Poesiefestival Berlin. (…)

Since Poesiefestival Berlin in 2023, we have been publishing an accompanying magazine annually. Poets participating in the festival contribute essays (…)

As part of the program “Culture Makes You Strong. Alliances for Education” run by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, anthologies (…)

„After the Poem | Nach dem Gedicht” is a podcast by the research project AfterWords: Positioning German Poetry in the 20th Century and Beyond at Free (…)

We have been cooperating with the Kulturring in Berlin for many years. In spring 2022, a collaboration was launched with the annual poetry workshops (…)

Vocations was conceived in 2023 as a new format for all forms of musical and vocal artistic practices that draw on poetry—whether classical or (…)

We make poetry for children visible!