LYRIK&SOUND is poetry’s answer to the violence of our time. The artists of LYRIK&SOUND (Joseph Braeus / poet & Miguel Star / sound artist) see in art the potential to stop the spiral of violence. The writer and physician Friedrich Wolf said at the founding congress of the Workers’ Theatre Association in 1928: ‘Art is a weapon.’ Today we know that the best weapon is being unarmed. Poetry has the power to purify the language of violence and awaken feelings that prevent violence. Music carries these words. Social networks can become the fertile ground for a new forest of peace. Let’s cultivate it!
The project is part of the subthemes Writing After – Catastrophe, Memory, and the Archive of Loss, Disrupted Realities – Poetry and the Politics of Truth, Poetic Infrastructures – Reclaiming Space, Building Commons.
Author
Jörn Gerstenberg
Jörn Gerstenberg, also known as Joseph Braeus, is a German poet, performer, street artist, chat poet, and illustrator. He was born in 1969 in East Berlin. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he studied theater studies at Humboldt University, then switched to art studies at the Berlin University of the Arts. Since the mid-1990s, he has participated in exhibitions with his work. Since 2015, he has written children's stories that have been broadcast on German radio. Since 2019, he has worked as a street artist. In 2020, he began publishing poetic videos on YouTube and Instagram.
