The 23rd poesiefestival berlin – between June 17 and 23 at the Akademie der Künste at Hanseatenweg – welcomed 10.000 visitors this year, including international poets, festival directors, and poetry enthusiasts of all ages. After two long years, the festival could finally occur live once more. Under the festival’s motto, All that poetry, the festival organizer Haus für Poesie facilitated more than 50 excellent events along with 70 partners. Yet again, the festival became political. “We had actually wanted to expand the aesthetic fan after two years of pandemic and a lot of strife in Europe,” says festival director Thomas Wohlfahrt. “Then Russia invaded Ukraine and the frame of reference utterly transformed.”
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