UmLinzRum

UmLinzRum
Copyright: Sebastian Vulcan

ROUNDABOUTLINZ
4 December 08, 7.30 p.m., Presentation of the Creative Writing Workshops Essen (15 – 19 September 08) and Nizhnij Novgorod (22 – 26 September 08)
Idea / Concept / Realization: Oskar Terš

Linz09 will organize creative writing workshops in its partner cities and in capitals of culture. These will give non-professional writers an opportunity to reflect on relations between their home town and Linz.
UMLINZRUM offers an opportunity for ambitious, non-professional writers to take part in creative writing workshops in German. The products of these workshops will link selected partner cities and other capitals of culture with Linz. Using simple language, these courses will focus on characteristics of a wide range of similarities and/or differences in terms of history, culture and society. The courses will also highlight different writing techniques and how to profit from them. At the end of the workshops the authors will present their compositions at StifterHaus Linz. At the final presentation in the summer of 2009, an author from each of the participating cities will be invited together with artists from those countries resident in Linz for a further exhibition of the wealth of experiences and impressions generated by the workshops. Incidentally, the workshops conducted in Ceské Budejovice and in Sibiu have already led to the forming of literary circles that intend to continue this kind of exchange beyond 2009.

WHERE //
StifterHaus – Zentrum für Literatur und Sprache in Oberösterreich
Adalbert Stifter Platz 1, 4020 Linz
www.stifter-haus.at

A Linz09 project

Download:

Folder Writing Workshop Duisburg (only available in German) (3,4 MB)
Folder Writing Workshop Nizhnij Novgorod (only available in German) (6,6 MB)