Hausbesuche

You usually only find writers at bookshop readings, literature centres, book fairs and festivals. Carefully introduced, in a clearly marked-out setting. Literature presentation takes place in the homogeneous structures of the professional literature industry.

The books, meanwhile, are at home. Inhabiting our rooms, sharing our living-rooms and bedrooms with us, getting to know our friends and family, and more familiar with our habits than hardly anyone else. “Home visits” gives 12 writers the chance to visit their works where they live: For two days, writers will visit the private living-rooms, flat-shares, and smoking rooms of various inhabitants of Graz. Not squatting, not forcing something on people, but rather the right of hospitality. Twenty-four families invite twelve writers, opening up their homes to their friends and acquaintances.

In a private atmosphere, there will be a direct exchange between the readers and writers. The author speaks his work, a sensorial and extraordinary coffee-table experience for hosts and guests. A situation that creates a space in which established structures of interaction and presentation are broken apart and dissolved into closeness.

At the final, public literature festival on the third evening, everyone will come together again to hear short readings and take part in discussions.

Konzept / Idee: Agnes Altziebler
Konzept / Idee: Silvana Cimenti
Konzept / Idee: Riki Erwa Winter
Konzept / Idee: Gerald Melzer
Autorin / Autor, Text: Aykol Esmahan
Autorin / Autor, Text: Antonio Fian
Autorin / Autor, Text: Barbara Frischmuth
Autorin / Autor, Text: Daniel Glattauer
Autorin / Autor, Text: Edith Kneifl
Autorin / Autor, Text: Lydia Mischkulnig
Autorin / Autor, Text: Kurt Palm
Autorin / Autor, Text: Stefan Schmitzer
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Raoul Schrott
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Michael Stavaric
Mitwirkende / Mitwirkender: Marlene Streeruwitz