Poetry@Rubens

Michael Donhauser reads from "Under the Walnut Tree"

A cessation, straightening up, all in black, a breath of attention" - with these words Michael Donhauser set off on a poetic flight almost forty years ago, which has not lost any of its height, verve or versatility to this day. Carried by a wind that sets the rhythm, sometimes roaring, shaking the trees, the roses, then dying down again, like a breath in everything, "blowing from afar and celebrating", Donhauser's poetry has since explored the world a little more with each verse, looking around and listening, fanning it out and allowing it to be sensually experienced in a work committed solely to poetic perception. A work that by no means comes to an end with "Unter dem Nussbaum", but rather rises up in new texts with a view to what has already been published, scattered and believed to be lost, a flapping of wings towards that place where poems show what they are capable of.

(Publisher Matthes & Seitz Berlin)
Moderation: Prof. Dr. Dieter Schönecker