Reading Event at Rostock City Hall
“terrain vague” is actually more of a reading meadow than a reading stage. This literary format, created by founders Everest Girard, David Lorenz, and Claudia Schlegel, brings authors and audiences together at various locations—in gardens, courtyards, and other special places. They usually invite two to three authors from Rostock and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to read short texts together in a program lasting about an hour. The locations and their atmospheres change, but the setting remains the same: a chair, a table, and a speaker. The audience makes themselves comfortable on blankets or folding chairs.
A special feature of each reading is a text created collaboratively: During the program, everyone is invited to contribute their own pieces of text—without knowing what the others have written beforehand. Section by section, a shared, surprising whole takes shape, which is then revealed and read aloud at the end.
For the closing event of the exhibition “Where Words End, Art Speaks” in the foyer of Rostock City Hall, “terrain vague” is coming together this time in a special setting.
Reader: Juliane Fladung
The event takes place as part of Anti-Violence Week and is organized by the Action Alliance. Donations collected during the reading will go to the Trauma Competence Center MV.
The Action Alliance includes:
- Artist Diana Teschner
- Cathleen Mendle-Annuschkewitz, Equal Opportunity Officer for the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock
- Ökohaus e. V.
- Trauma Competence Center MV
- General Victim Assistance Counseling Center in the Stralsund Regional Court District, specializing in organized ritual violence and support for leaving such groups (OhBst)
- Art Therapist Jana Lolischkies
- FANatic D!ance e. V.
- terrain vague
- Kulturland MV GmbH
This event is made possible by the volunteer efforts of many people as well as financial support from the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the Volunteer Foundation, Aktion Mensch, and the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock.
For more information: Instagram: terrainvague.freilufttexte // Website: https://www.everestgirard.de/terrainvague.html
Admission by donation
Location: RostockCity Hall , Neuer Markt 1, 18055 Rostock
“terrain vague” is an independent reading seriesin cooperation with the Literaturhaus Rostock and RISSE—Journal of Literature in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
