bookmark_borderRenate Welsh-Symposium

„Geschichten hinter den Geschichten“ (Re-)Lektüren des Werks von Renate Welsh

11. Februar 2026 – Alte Schmiede, Wien
13h: Michael Hammerschmid: „Erfahrung festgezurrt in Worte“. Über Haltung und Poesie in Renate Welshs Gedichten
weitere Teilnehmende: Fermin Suter, Susanne Blumesberger, Hanna Prandstätter, Julia Danielczyk, Susanne Rettenwander
sowie ab 19h: Elke Laznia und Margit Schreiner
und Renate Welsh
Moderation: Hanna Prandstätter

bookmark_borderwhite raven 2025 – „was keiner kapiert“


„Michael Hammerschmid is one of Austria’s most renowned (children’s) poets. In the bright blue volume »was keiner kapiert« (What no one gets), he takes a step out of childhood and toward adolescence, exploring a phase of life that is as full of contradictions and intensity as hardly any other. The themes include searching for meaning and self-discovery, falling in love, love itself, everyday life, school, feeling overwhelmed, and boredom. Hammerschmid’s poems are powerful, raw, and rhythmic. Sometimes the verses are tender, sometimes worldly-wise, sometimes exhausted, and then other times coarse. Hammerschmid strings the words together in succession – bam bam bam – creating surprising connections. He works with repetitions and often with line breaks that make the reader stumble. This can result in a loss of rhythm – which also mirrors the emotional state of youth. The illustrations by Barbara Hoffmann are at times concrete, at other times abstract, thereby depicting particular details or moods.“ [IG] Link
Buchmesse Frankfurt
Beitrag vom 9.10.2025

bookmark_border„Langer Tag der Lesungen“

8. November 2025
15-17 Uhr Leserratten ab 6J.: Mit Elisabeth Steinkellner und Michael Hammerschmid
ab 18h: Lesungen von Julia Reithner, Sabine Rautek, Michael Hammerschmid aus „Nester“ und „was keiner kapiert“, Eva Holzmaier, Juli Oliver
Dorfhaus, 2202 Königsbrunn, Enzersfelderstrasse 30
Veranstaltet von Bücher EK, Kultur EK