Schlechte Wörter / Bad Words

Ingeborg Bachmann kam im Frühjahr 1963 als eine der ersten Stipendiatinnen des neu gegründeten Berliner Künstlerprogramms nach West-Berlin. Über ein Jahrzehnt hinweg war die Stadt durch die Spannungen des Kalten Krieges geprägt und isoliert. Ihr Aufenthalt dauerte bis Ende 1965. In dieser Zeit entwickelten sich zentrale spätere Werke der Autorin, die zunächst nur in Blättern und frühen Entwürfen v...

Diese Episode nimmt die Memoiren der französischen Schriftstellerin Marguerite Duras, La Douleur („Der Schmerz“), zum Ausgangspunkt einer Reflexion über individuelle wie kollektive Trauerarbeit. Im Paris der unmittelbaren Nachkriegstage beschreibt Duras, wie sie voller Sorge auf Robert Antelme wartet, ihren Ehemann, der als Widerstandskämpfer nach Deutschland deportiert wurde. Dabei beobachtet sie...

»Let it matter what we call a thing.«  After the first season took Ilse Aichinger’s titular essay »Bad Words« and its resistant poetics as its point of departure, and the second season took us into the darkness with Etel Adnan’s »Living by Night«, the latest episode of Bad Words gathers different writers and artists around the poem »LOOK« by Solmaz Sharif. »LOOK« challenges us to confront the ways...

»I am inviting you to not sleep tonight.« After the first season took Ilse Aichinger’s titular essay Bad Words and its resistant poetics as its point of departure, Etel Adnan’s Night takes us into the darkness. Between the revolutionary potential of staying awake and the shrouding qualities of night, the second season negotiates language as a means of silence and the night as a place of the living...

»I am inviting you to not sleep tonight.« After the first season took Ilse Aichinger’s titular essay Bad Words and its resistant poetics as its point of departure, Etel Adnan’s Night takes us into the darkness. Between the revolutionary potential of staying awake and the shrouding qualities of night, the second season negotiates language as a means of silence and the night as a place of the living...

»I am inviting you to not sleep tonight.« After the first season took Ilse Aichinger’s titular essay Bad Words and its resistant poetics as its point of departure, Etel Adnan’s Night takes us into the darkness. Between the revolutionary potential of staying awake and the shrouding qualities of night, the second season negotiates language as a means of silence and the night as a place of the living...

»I now no longer use the better words.« This is the beginning of Ilse Aichinger’s brief essay Bad Words and the anthology of the same name in which she develops her resistant poetics. A refusal of the imperative, of false certainties and the unassailable. Can we unlearn the reproduction of violence in language? Are the weaker expressions our salvation? Based on Aichinger’s work, the audio series B...

»I now no longer use the better words.« This is the beginning of Ilse Aichinger’s brief essay Bad Words and the anthology of the same name in which she develops her resistant poetics. A refusal of the imperative, of false certainties and the unassailable. Can we unlearn the reproduction of violence in language? Are the weaker expressions our salvation? Based on Aichinger’s work, the audio series B...

»I now no longer use the better words.« This is the beginning of Ilse Aichinger’s brief essay Bad Words and the anthology of the same name in which she develops her resistant poetics. A refusal of the imperative, of false certainties and the unassailable. Can we unlearn the reproduction of violence in language? Are the weaker expressions our salvation? Based on Aichinger’s work, the audio series B...