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Lütfiye Güzel

©Ben Knabe

Lütfiye Güzel, born in Duisburg in 1972, is a poet and has been publishing poems under her own label go-güzel-publishing since 2014. In 2014, she received the Fakir Baykurt Culture Prize of the City of Duisburg and in 2017 the Ruhr Literature Prize. Her current book ich.soll.ruhiger.werden is recommended poetry 2024 (German Academy for Language and Poetry).

In her poems, Lütfiye Güzel observes the everyday and the human between humour and melancholy and at the same time paints a pointed, socio-critical picture of the present. The resistant potential of Lütfiye Güzel's poetry is also evident in the way she incorporates materiality and craft into her works: newspaper clippings assembled into collages yield a different meaning and passages of text are given a new interpretation by deleting words or sentences.

Wesel

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.

Wesel von Amina Falah

A slender tree in the forest, with a white ribbon tied around its trunk. Sunlight filters through the leaves.

© Amina Falah

A large cylindrical industrial tank behind a chain-link fence. A red container stands in the foreground.

© Amina Falah

A turquoise telescope labeled "Galaxy" on a bridge in Wesel, overlooking the Rhine, surrounded by love locks.

© Amina Falah

An indoor courtyard with a koi pond, overshadowed by a large green plant. The water reflects the building's glass ceiling.

© Amina Falah

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Amina Falah

Amina Falah is a designer and photographer. Her work sheds light on everyday life and the stories of the people around her, with a focus on social issues.

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