Literary Serial and Goethe-Institut present:

A Text Performance of the Swiss Authors Melinda Nadj Abonji and Beatboxer Jurczok 1001 and Nadezhda Radulova, Dimiter Kenarov and Stoil Roshkev (Bulgaria)



Melinda Nadj Abonji comes from the region of Vojvodina in the former Yugoslavia. She grew up speaking two languages: Hungarian and after emigrating to Switzerland, German. Melinda Nadj Abonji is not only a poet, but a musician and spoken word artist at the same time. Being closely interwoven, these aspects of her creativity cannot reveal separately. She often uses loops in performances with her partner, the rap poet and beat boxer Jurczok 1001: text fragments, melodic scraps and violin sounds are recorded live and mixed with the loop pedal to create an orchestral sound whose defining feature is repetition. More info at: http://www.masterplanet.ch/

Jurczok 1001 is born in 1974 in Wadenswil, Switzerland. He is a poet, MC, human beatbox and a spoken word pioneer in Switzerland. He releases his first poetry CD in 1997. Since 1998, he collaborates with author and musician Melinda Nadj Abonji. Together they have created a unique form of literary performance which they have showed at numerous festivals across Europe. His last publication is called „Voice Beatbox Violin“ and is a collaboration with Melinda Nadj Abonji (U/D/E). Masterplanet 2006.

Nadya Radulova is born in 1975 graduates from the Faculty of Slavic Studies, Sofia University in 1999. In 2001 she acquires her MPhill degree from Central European University, Budapest , and The Open University, London. In 2006 she defends her PhD “Palimpsest as a Figure of Femininity” at Sofia University “St Kliment Ohridski”. Her academic interests are related to the field of Comparative Literature, Gender Studies, and literary translation . Radulova also works as an editor of the monthly journal for gender, language and culture “altera”, and as a translator of poetry and fiction. She is author of three poetry books: "Tongue-Tied Name" (1996), "Albas" (2000) , and "Cotton", "Glass and Electricity" (2004). Her poems and short stories are translated into English, Russian, Czech, and Turkish.

Stoil Roshkev is born in 1976, in Sofia, Bulgaria. He graduated Bulgarian Philology at St. Kliment of Ohrid University, Sofia. He is the author of “Electricity”, which won the “Juzhna Prolet Award” in 1998 for best debut poetry book. He is the winner of First Prize at the 1997 National Students Conference in Shumen and the winner of the “Veselin Hanchev Award” in 1996 for best debut manuscript. He is also the winner of the “Rashko Sugarev Award” in 2004 for best short story. His novel “Women by the Chinese Wall” was published in 2007. His second novel is on the way.

Dimiter Kenarov was born Sofia, Bulgaria. His first poetry collection "Putuvane kum kuhniata" ("Traveling to the Kitchen") (Zhanet 45, 2001) won the 2002 Iuzhna Prolet/Literaturen Vesnik award for best debut by a young poet. His poetry, translations, and journalism have appeared in numerous Bulgarian and US publications. Currently, he is a doctoral student in English and American Literature at the University of California, Berkeley.

This is the fourth event of the “Page with a Stage” series, six text performances by some of the best known authors of German contemporary literature. Despite being the sixth text performance, it is actually the second event within the framework of “Page with a Stage” series that brings together foreign and Bulgarian writers in order to create a joint text performance.
Realised in partnership with The Red House and with the support of Pro Helvetia’s Cultural Programme and the Swiss Embassy in Bulgaria.

More information:
http://bachmannpreis.orf.at/bachmannpreis/autoren/stories/11091/ and www.acoustictags.net

June 9 (Saturday), 7.00 p.m.
Red hall
In German with Bulgarian subtitles.
Free entrance

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