Zurich Poetry Lecture II with Blixa Bargeld

The Zurich Poetry Lectures will be celebrating an anniversary in 2026: For exactly thirty years, at the invitation of the German Department and the Literaturhaus Zürich, renowned authors – including W.G. Sebald, Herta Müller, Christoph Ransmayer and Marion Poschmann – have been speaking about their writing over three evenings every autumn.

To mark the anniversary, none other than Blixa Bargeld, frontman of ‘Einstürzende Neubauten’, will take up the poetry lectureship. This coming November, the Berlin-based poet and spoken-word performer will offer an insight into his creative process – and, not least, highlight the relationship between sound, voice and poetry.