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Dr Anne Potjans

Dr Anne Potjans is a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC Consolidator Grant-funded research project “Tales of the Diasporic Ordinary. Aesthetics, Affects, Archives” at Humboldt University in Berlin. In this context, she is developing a book project that deals with the intersection of queerness and Blackness in Germany. A preliminary title is “Night Shift – Queer Subcultural Spaces and the Black Diasporic Experience. In May 2024, her dissertation was published as a book entitled Why Are You So Angry? Anger and Rage in Black Feminist Literature by Peter Lang Verlag. Since 2015, Anne Potjans has been teaching English and American Studies at HU and researching Black feminism from a transnational perspective, Black Studies, and the intersection of race, sexuality, and gender.

Hamminkeln

The Grand Snail Tour will be accompanied by literary, photographic and illustrative artists, who will collect impressions and reflections from the same city at the same time as the Trailer is there and put them into visual or literary form. The result is a paratext on the three-year tour, a travel chronicle in the form of a kaleidoscope of stories, connections and snapshots in the 53 cities of the region, revealing the simultaneities and non-simultaneities of the Grand Snail Tour.

Hamminkeln by Erdem Teper

so müssen wohl die bäume über die menschen denken, 
der mensch ist ewig damit beschäftigt 
versteht, dass alles und jeder irgendwo
eins ist 
versteht, dass alles –  liebt und lacht und lebt in frieden existiert; stoa
versteht, dass es ist – ebenbild 
wenn mensch findet sich selbst 
vor uralten baumrinden 
ein wesen schaut das andere an, 
am ende haben beide einander
und somit sich selbst erkannt 
beide aus gerüst, beide aus haut 
nur dass der baum im wald sich zutraut
zurecht, dass er den menschen überlebt; 
während die zeit bereits 
das leichentuch des menschen webt 
und der baum schaut den menschen an, 
beide aus haut, rinde und knochen 
nur hat der neue mensch 
seine beziehung zur natur unterbrochen

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Erdem Teper

Erdem Teper writes about everything that makes Erdem feel. Themes in his poetry are often taken from philosophical and religious contexts.

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