Deutsche Girl Poets
Berlin is my number one lover that I take to bed each night and I think of every morning when I wake up and begin to write. For many of Berlin’s budding and surviving performers this city serves as their main fascination and obsession. Both sides of the city offer us many opportunities to test our work on audiences, on the city’s stages, we are published instantly. The audience is a melting pot, diverse, multicultural, tolerant, intolerant and rowdy yet, it is an audience that takes an interest in wordsmiths, in performing poets. An audience that can be quiet when in need, a clapping crowd when appreciative or hackling monsters when they must.
Gaby Bila-Günther, aka lady gaby, on Berlin’s spoken word and poetry scene.
Random Acts of Reality
Direct Red provides observations on clinical hierarchies and tension, on professional communication, caring for children, connections and partings, emergencies and death. Doctors, Martin Amis wrote, are life’s gatekeepers. They are with you at both ends. And sometimes the process is botched…[Weston] writes exactly like you’d think a surgeon would write, with calm precision. There are the expected loving descriptions of surgical implements and processes, the passion for order and symmetry — although her theatre music is just commercial radio, rather than the rarified classical symphonies of the imagination.
Max Dunbar on Direct Red: A Surgeon’s Story.