Literaturspaziergang ’23

Various events will be held in Lindabrunn over the course of 2023 to commemorate Mathias Hietz and his legacy. At the beginning of spring, Kirstin Schwab, Beatrice Simonsen, Elke Steiner and Marion Steinfellner will open the series of events to mark the 100th birthday of the symposium founder. Readings and performances lead across the green meadow to the artworks of the Lindabrunn Symposium. The authors draw on the synergy between art and literature, talk about the history of the site, the founding of the symposium by Mathias Hietz in 1967, fantasize about its future and present their own interpretations of the sculptural heritage.

Kirstin Schwab on the sculpture by Gero Müller-Goldegg (1969)
Two heads. Leaning against each other. For half a century. Leaning into time. Leaning into the landscape, into life. Their point of contact? Their foreheads. Do their thoughts lean against each other? At the interface between the past and the present.
Erbe always poses the question of time, poses questions to time. Opens up a before and postulates a changed after. Who is leaning against whom? Who stands in whose shadow? What does one head think, what does the other? And how does our own head relate to this?

Beatrice Simonsen on “Hain” by Mathias Hietz (1972)
A performative appearance in the land art work “Hain” by Mathias Hietz from 1972 commemorates the founder of the Lindabrunn Symposium and his sculptural work. We are celebrating his legacy and his 100th birthday with a collective action. Mathias Hietz always focused on the community – we want to build on this. History and fantasy intertwine in various text levels between sober report and poetic interpretation of the sculptor’s life and work.

Elke Steiner on the sculpture “The Gate of the Wind” by Hiroshi Ohnari (1975)
“The Gate of the Wind” is also the name for an acupuncture point. The point is located on the meridians of the water element, where, according to the teachings of traditional Chinese medicine, our inherited energy is stored. The observations can be superimposed like foils, man and terrain, past and present, point and sculpture.

Marion Steinfellner
In a holistic poetry dance performance, Marion Steinfellner combines her physicality and her poems with the energetic uniqueness of this special natural art space. Each moment transmorphs into itself, flows into the next moment of being in the open and reveals surprising singularities.

An event organized by Kunst und Literatur with the Symposion Lindabrunn and the Grazer Autorinnen Autorenversammlung.

Biographies of the authors:

Kirstin Schwab, born in Graz in 1976, lives as an author/artist in Jois. Studied acting. Numerous theater works at home and abroad. Writes poetry, dramatic texts and children’s stories. Currently published: wir teilen unser Ungleichgewicht (poetry collection, Löcker Verlag). In fall 2023 the first children’s book Fisch mit Regenschirm(Obelisk Verlag) will be published. The text was awarded the Dixi Children’s Literature Prize. www.kirstinschwab.at

Beatrice Simonsen, lives as an author and literary critic in Vienna. Conceives and organizes intermedia, synergetic events under her own brand “Art and Literature” since 2013 (since 2022 “Art or Nature and Literature”). Since 2014 performative appearances and literary publications in anthologies, art books and on the radio. Most recently published: Der Himmel bis zur Erde Erzählungen. edition lex liszt 12, Oberwart 2022.

Elke Steiner, born in 1969, lives and works as an author, writing teacher and literary mediator in Burgenland and Vienna. She currently runs her practice for Japanese body therapy on a reduced scale in order to devote herself to literature. She has published poetry and prose in literary magazines, on the radio and in anthologies. Member of GAV, Literaturkreis Podium, Berufsverband Österreichischer Schreibpädagog*innen and Famulus Literatur. Most recently jury prize at the ORF-Textfunken-Literaturwettbewerb 2022. Her two novels “Über das Licht gedreht” and “Die Frau im Atelier” were published by edition keiper in 2018 and 2021. https://www.elkesteiner.at

Marion Steinfelllner Butoh dancer/performer, writer and painter. last single title: TRANSMORPHOSEN. augenblicksmonsterbutohbuch. Bod 2000. dancing poems www.marionsteinfellner.com

Starting point for the walk: Hernsteiner Straße parking lot shortly after the end of Lindabrunn.