Rough Translation – Grob gesagt: Krieg Edition 2 with Iryna Tsilyk (Recording in Ukrainian & German)
ROUGH TRANSLATION Lab 1_Roughly speaking: War takes place in two spaces. The space of Austrian normality and the space of the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine. Curated by Evgenia Lopata, the artistic director of the international poetry festival Meridian Czernowitz talks to the authors Andrij Ljubka, Iryna Tsilyk, Kateryna Kalytko and Taras Prochasko. Both the authors and Evgenia Lopata are still in Ukraine. They will be connected live to the auditorium of the Angewandte. The event will be translated into German consecutively by Anna Kolomiitseva. The German translation of the literary texts will be read by staff and students of the Institute for Language Arts.
Evgenia Lopata is Ukrainian cultural manager and translator. She has been the director of the Meridian Chernivtsi International Poetry Festival and the publishing house of the same name since 2013. As a translator, she translates texts from German into Ukrainian. She organises reading tours of Ukrainian authors such as Serhij Schadan, Oksana Sabuschko and Jurij Andruchowytsch through Europe, initiates many international European-Ukrainian cultural projects and has been involved for years with the presence of Ukrainian writers at international literary forums such as the Leipzig, Vienna and Frankfurt Book Fairs.
Iryna Tsilyk (born 1982 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian filmmaker and author of several books (poetry, prose, children's books). Her poems and short stories have been translated into English, German, French, Polish, Lithuanian, Czech, Swedish, Romanian and Catalan and presented at various international literary festivals and events, such as the "Schamrock Festival of Women Poets" (Germany, 2018), the "Poetry Festival Berlin" 2017, the Leipzig Book Fair 2017, the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016, the Vilnius Book Fair 2016, "Meridian Chernivtsi" (Ukraine, 2015-2018), the Vilenica International Literature Festival (Slovenia 2008) and others. As a director, Tsilyk has been responsible for renowned short films: "Wdosvita" (2008; Eng. "Blue Hour", 2008), "Pomyn" (2012; Eng. "Commemoration", 2012) and "Dim" (2016; Eng. "Home", 2016). For the film almanac "The Invisible Battalion" (2017) about Ukrainian women at war, she contributed two documentaries. In 2020, her documentary "The Earth Is Blue As an Orange" about civilians in the red zone in the Donbas premiered at the "Sundance Film Festival" and won the "Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary" there.
Events
Co-operation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Literaturhaus Wien
Rough Translation – Lectures & talks with Ukranian poets
Lab 1_Roughly speaking: war
Rough Translation – Grob gesagt: Krieg Edition 3 with Kateryna Kalytko (Recording in Ukrainian & German)
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