European and imagined capitals of culture: The City Writer Fellowship of the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe

A panel discussion with Brygida Helbig, Marko Martin and Ira Peter

Focusing on a hotspot, on a European Capital of Culture – or on a city that we believe deserves to be a Capital of Culture. For a good decade and a half, city writers, who are at least as diverse as the places they report on, have been doing this for several months at a time. Eastern Central Europe in seemingly small pieces – over the years, a large and colourful picture emerges, spanning almost the whole of Eastern Europe, with diverse experiences of urban cultures and characters coming together, but above all different perspectives from curious and attentive fellowship holders.

We invited three of them to talk about how they experienced their host cities, what this fellowship meant to them, and what experiences and insights they would like to share with us today: Brygida Helbig, currently reporting from Szczecin, Marko Martin, who was in the cultural capital of Wrocław in 2016, and Ira Peter, who was able to experience the Ukrainian Black Sea metropolis of Odessa in the spring and summer of 2021, during the ongoing conflict with Russia, a year before its attack on the whole of Ukraine.

PROGRAMME

Welcome: Dr Gundula Bavendamm, Director of the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation

Dr Harald Roth, Director of the German Cultural Forum for Eastern Europe, Potsdam

Panel conversation: Brygida Helbig, Marko Martin and Ira Peter

Moderator: Christina Tilmann, journalist

FURTHER INFORMATION

Admission: 6.30 p.m.

Language: German

FREE ADMISSION

REGISTRATION REQUIRED (at +49 (0)331 20098-0 or deutsches@kulturforum.info)