The festival aims to create a museum without walls, offering space for live encounters and playing an active role in literary life, rather than serving only as a repository for lifeless objects, undersecretary at the Ministry of Education and Culture Márta Schneider remarked at the festival?s opening ceremony.
On the first day of the festival, the museum also opened an exhibition entitled ?A Mirror Exposes Our Very Depths? dedicated to the Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann on the 80th anniversary of her birth.
Numerous distinguished European poets - Nicolas Ancion from Belgium, Petr Borkovec from the Czech Republic, Mile Stojic from Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Steffen Popp, Hendrik Jackson and Gerhard Falkner from Germany ? will join well-known Hungarian poets - Szilárd Borbély, László G. István, Orsolya Kalász, István Kemény, János Lackfi, János Térey, Ottó Tolnai, Krisztina Tóth and István Vörös ? at the festival.
On Thursday, Czech, Belgian, Bosnian, German, and Hungarian poets will read from their works and Hungarian musician Péter Müller Sziámi will perform at 20:00. Sziámi has agreed to put some of the poems recited during the day to music at the event.
At 16:00 on Friday, István Mikó and his ensemble will perform songs by the poet András Ferenc Kovács. The performance will be followed by readings of German and Hungarian writers presenting each other?s translated works.
Starting at 17:00 on Saturday, László Márton and editor Lajos Adamik will discuss the Hungarian-language translation of Ingeborg Bachmann?s volume of poetry, to be published shortly. The closing event of the festival will be a concert by Ferenc Snétberger.
Many of the festival?s events will be held at the museum itself, which is located at Károlyi Mihály u. 16, in District V.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
