Public lecture Poetics lecture with Maxi Obexer

The South Tyrolean playwright and writer Maxi Obexer was awarded the Alice Salomon Poetics Prize by ASH Berlin in January 2023, which is associated with a poetry lectureship. The Poetics Lecture will now take place on December 14, 2023 from 17:00 to 18:30 in the Audimax of ASH Berlin. The university management cordially invites all members of ASH Berlin and all interested guests to attend! The event is open to the public. Registration is not required.

Alongside Christoph Szalay, winner of the Alice Salomon Poetry Prize 2019, Maxi Obexer will be one of the two artists submitting a design for the redesign of the south façade next year.

The Poetry Lecture will be followed by a get-together to discuss poetry, art and other topics of interest to the university. The event is also an opportunity to end 2023 together as a university community.

Maxi Obexer and the Alice Salomon Poetry Prize
Maxi Obexer won over the jury because "she writes in an inspiringly unconventional way and always tackles burning social issues such as flight, migration, violence, oppression, ecological issues and the relationship between humans and animals. Essentially, however, all of these themes are always about love, about relating to others and other things, or the lack thereof in a world that is too cold," the jury explained.

About the Poetry Prize
Every two years, ASH Berlin awards the Alice Salomon Poetry Prize to artists who contribute to the further development of literary, visual and acoustic arts through their special formal language and diversity, always working and acting in an interdisciplinary manner. The award comes with prize money of 6,000 euros, a lectureship and the opportunity to redesign the south façade of the university. Through the dialog between science and art, the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin wants to continue to grow and open up new perspectives, forms of communication, practices and spaces of possibility.

In 2006, the Alice Salomon Hochschule Berlin introduced the Master's degree course "Biographical and Creative Writing" - in the course of which the Alice Salomon Poetics Prize was awarded for the first time in 2007. To date, fourteen artists have received the prize: Gerhard Rühm, Michael Roes, Rebecca Horn, Valeri Scherstjanoi, Eugen Gomringer, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Andreas Steinhöfel, Franz Hohler, Volker Ludwig, Elfriede Czurda, Barbara Köhler, Christoph Szalay, Lioba Happel and Maxi Obexer.