The German Literature Institute Leipzig (DLL) hopes that the International Congress of Creative Writing Programs, which will take place at the same time as the Leipzig Book Fair 2005 in cooperation with numerous partners around the world, will be a platform for regular networking. A total of roughly 50 institutes from all over the world will have the opportunity in Leipzig to discuss the various didactic approaches and major topics of their programmes. In addition to academic lectures, there are also plans for an extensive supporting programme. This will include a series of readings with internationally renowned authors linked to creative writing schools, platform discussions and public lectures.

Eine Veranstaltung des Deutschen Literaturinstituts Leipzig (DLL) in Zusammenarbeit mit der Universität Leipzig, der Schule für Dichtung Wien, der Literary Composition, Poetry&Prose; Gothenburg university und der Literární akademie Prag
Is literary writing learnable?
From March 15th through March 18th, 2005, writers and teachers of creative writing programs will discuss the teachability and learnability of literary writing at the Congress Center Leipzig. The congress will present various different approaches to teaching as well as confer about particularly European ways of educating authors.
The German Literature Institute Leipzig celebrates its 10th anniversary
Ten years after its foundation, the German Literature Institute Leipzig (DLL) still offers Germany’s only full-time academic creative writing program. The first International Congress of Creative Writing Programs therefore is a celebratory event for the institute’s anniversary: “During the last decade, highly qualified creative writing programs have been founded all over Europe. The German Literature Institute has been the leading force in Germany and now wants to spearhead the advancement of a European creative writing network,” says the institute’s director Professor Josef Haslinger. Together with his colleague Hans-Ulrich Treichel, Haslinger has developed the idea of fusing the creative writing forces in Europe.
A European Creative Writing Network
The first step in building this international network is the International Congress of Creative Writing Programs. More than 30 institutes and creative writing programs from all over Europe and the US have announced their participation, among them the renowned Iowa Writer’s Workshop and the Moscow Maxim-Gorky-Institute.
Public Events
Since Leipzig has always been a “book-city” with a huge public interest in literature and creative writing, the German Literature Institute in cooperation with the Leipzig Book Fair presents “The Long Night of Readings” at the Leipzig Moritzbastei. On Thursday, March 17th, 2005, starting at 6:00 pm, 40 German and international authors will present their work at readings and panel discussions.
International Celebrity Guests
Many well-known German and international authors will make their appearance at the congress and participate in the reading. As both teachers and students they all are involved in creative writing programs and very experienced in teaching literary writing. Among them are the South-African poet Breyten Breytenbach, the Russian writer Svetlana Vasilenko and the British Creative-Writing-legend Patricia Duncker. The list of well-known German authors includes Terezia Mora, Michael Lentz, Kerstin Hensel and Burkhard Spinnen.
The congress is open to registered visitors. Because of high demand the registration deadline has been extended to February 15th, 2005.
The First International Congress of Creative Writing Programs is an event of the German Literature Institute Leipzig (DLL) in cooperation with the Vienna Poetry School (VPS), the University of Gothenburg’s Creative Writing Program and the Writer’s Academy of Josef Skvorecky in Prague.

Azam Abidov
National University of Uzbekistan
UZBEK CLASSICAL AND CONTEMPORARY POETRY AND ITS ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS (PDF download)

Karimov Bahodir
University of Uzbekistan
PRESENT CONDITION AND PROSPECTS OF HIGHER LITERATURE COURSE (PDF download)

Dr. Vivian Eden
Helicon, Tel Aviv
Why and How to Teach Poetry Translation (PDF download)

Prof. Wolfgang Hegewald
Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaft, Fachbereich Gestaltung, Hamburg
Creative Writing and “Literarisches Schreiben” (PDF download)

Christian Ide Hintze
Schule für Dichtung in Wien / Vienna Poetry School
multilingual poetries and teachings (PDF dowload)

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Hofmann
Szenisches Schreiben, Universität Berlin Künste (UdK), Berlin
TRAINING LANGUAGE BY COMPARING TRANSLATIONS (PDF download)

Gert Jonke
Schule für Dichtung in Wien / Vienna Poetry School

Orhan Kipcak
Schule für Dichtung in Wien / Vienna Poetry School
The Internet Academy of the Vienna Poetry School (PDF download)

Beatrice Kobow
Speakers, Authors and Other Fantastical Creatures: On Faking – Authenticity, Borrowed Grief and Other False Sentiments (PDF download)

Vaclav Kristof
Literarni Akademie, Prag
The Writers’ Academy and the Development of Private Universities
in the Czech Republic (PDF download)

Ingmar Lehmhagen
Nordens, Folkhögskola Biskops-Arnö, Schweden
The text and the city (PDF download)

Eldrid Lunden
Telemark, Bö
Teaching the unteachable (PDF download)

Prof. Dr. Gabriela Matuszek
Literary-Artistic Studies, Jagiellonian University

Christopher Merrill
University of Iowa
Only Connect (PDF download)

Nirav Christophe
Kunsthochschule Utrecht
Writing as a reaction; a post-modern view on writing and the pedagogy of writing (PDF download)

Merete Nissen
Danish Academy of Creative Writing
The learnability and teachability of literary writing (PDF dpwnload)

Johan Öberg
Faculty of Fine Arts of Göteborg University
Literary composition in the society of spectacle (PDF download)

Amir Or
Helicon
ON EDITING AND FEEDBACK IN THE POETRY WORKSHOP (PDF download)

Prof. Dr. Hanns-Josef Ortheil
Universität Hildesheim

Prof. Dr. Stephan Porombka
Studiengang Kreatives Schreiben Hildesheim

Anne Roche
Université de Provence
Creative Writing Programs at Université de Provence (PDF download)

Hubert Roza
Utrecht School of the Art (HKU)

Dr. Fiona Sampson
Oxford Brookes University
Disrupted Practice? Translating the Context for “Creative Writing” (PDF download)

Staffan Söderblom
Litterär Gestaltning Göteborgs Universitet
A TEXT OF ONE’S OWN (PDF download)

Daniel Soukup
Literarni Akademie
Intercultural Studies, Contrastive Stylistics and Creative Writing (PDF download)

Heimo Strempfl
Robert-Musil-Lit.-Mus.

Dr. Cole Swensen
University of Iowa
(PDF download)

Rosemarie Tietze
Deutscher Übersetzungsfond

Prof. Sergei Tolkachev
Gorky Literary Institute

Svetlana Vasilenko
The secrets of skill: profession handed over in person
The methods of teaching at the High School of Scriptwriters and Film Directors (Moscow, Russia) (PDF download)

Reijo Virtanen
Orivesi College of Arts
Teaching humour and satire (PDF download)

Irene Weber Henking
UNIL / CTL
Translating Literature: from the own languages and the other senses (PDF download)

Dr. Edda Ziegler
Manuskriptum LMU

Zwei Leipziger Dichterschulen – eine Geschichte?

Podiumsdiskussion zur Schriftstellerausbildung am Deutschen Literaturinstitut Leipzig (DLL) und am DDR-Institut für Literatur „Johannes R. Becher“, das zwischen 1955 bis 1993 die einzige Hochschule zur Ausbildung von Schriftstellerinnen und Schriftstellern im gesamten deutschsprachigen Raum darstellte und u. a. Autor/innen wie Sarah und Rainer Kirsch, Erich Loest, Adolf Endler, Heinz Czechowski und Angela Krauß zu seinen Absolventen und Absolventinnen zählte.

Rund zwanzig Jahre nach der „Abwicklung“ des Becher-Instituts und der Neugründung des DLL soll im Rahmen des Forschungsprojekts „Literarische Schreibprozesse“ erstmals ein Erfahrungsaustausch über die Lehr- und Lernbarkeit des literarischen Schreibens und die langjährige Ausbildungspraxis an zwei Leipziger Literaturinstituten stattfinden.

Es diskutieren Katja Lange-Müller (Schriftstellerin und Absolventin des Becher-Instituts), Peter Gosse (Schriftsteller, ehem. Direktor und Dozent im „Schöpferischen Seminar Lyrik“ am Becher-Institut), Hubert Witt (Lektor und ehem. Dozent im Fach „Weltliteratur“ am Becher-Institut), Sascha Macht (Student und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am DLL) und Prof. Dr. Hans-Ulrich Treichel (Schriftsteller und Professor für Deutsche Literatur am DLL). Moderation: Dr. Katja Stopka.

16. Juli 2014, 18 Uhr
Eintritt frei

Buchpräsentation von »Schreiben lernen im Sozialismus« – der ersten Monographie zum Institut für Literatur »Johannes R. Becher«, erschienen im Wallstein-Verlag. Ein Gespräch mit den Autor*innen Isabelle Lehn, Sascha Macht und Katja Stopka. Moderiert von Claudius Nießen.
In dem Buch geht es um die Geschichte der einzigen staatlichen Schriftstellerhochschule in der DDR und ihrer Funktion und Bedeutung im literarischen Raum der DDR. Das Leipziger Institut für Literatur »Johannes R. Becher« ist eine Schlüsselinstitution der DDR-Literaturhistorie. 1955 in der DDR gegründet, wurden hier unter den Bedingungen einer normativ dominanten Herrschaftsstruktur Prozesse und Formen des literarischen Schreibens gefördert und vermittelt. Knapp 1000 Absolventen, darunter einige später namhafte DDR-Autoren (Werner Bräunig, Adolf Endler, Rainer und Sarah Kirsch, Erich Loest, Fred Wander), wurden am Becher-Institut zwischen 1955 und 1993 literaturpädagogisch und intellektuell sozialisiert. Die Fäden von fast vierzig Jahren Literaturgeschichte der DDR laufen an einem Ort zusammen, wo ideologische Doktrin, künstlerischer Auftrag und das Streben nach ästhetisch-poetischen Freiräumen im konfliktträchtigen Widerspruch standen.