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New German Writing: Brigitte Oleschinski and Raoul Schrott Thursday 28 April 1999 at 7.30pm Voice Box, Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX Box office: 0171-960 4242 Brigitte Oleschinski and Raoul Schrott are two leading voices in contemporary German poetry. Brigitte Oleschinski studied Political Science and lives in Berlin, where she works as a modern historian. She has published two collections, Mental Heat Control and Your Passport is Not Guilty, which won last year's prestigious Peter Huchel Prize. Her poetry is as musical and sensuous as it is intelligent and highly controlled. Raoul Schrott studied Literature and Linguistics in Innsbruck, Norwich, Paris and Berlin. He currently divides his time between Landeck/Austria and Ireland. His poetry is a densely atmospheric blend of the empirical and mythical. In addition to a novel, Finis Terrae, he has published the noted anthology Die Erfindung der Poesie: Gedichte aus den ersten viertausend Jahren, as well as two poetry collections, Hotels and Tropen. His awards include the Leonce and Lena Prize, a Musil Fellowship and, most recently, the 1999 Peter Huchel Prize. English translations of the German texts will be read by the translators Karen Leeder and Iain Galbraith, who are currently working on a comprehensive anthology on German poetry after 1975. Tickets stlg5.00 (concs stlg3.00) Presented in association with the Goethe-Institut and supported by the Austrian Cultural Institute. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%