Festival of literature kleinwalsertal

From everyday life in the big city to the remoteness of the mountains. Independently of each other, photographer Dominik Buda, musician Philip Yaeger, and authors Romina Nikolić, Valeria Anna Lampert and Samuel Kramer spend the week before the Festival of Literature in various huts. Every day they record there their thoughts, observations, impressions - inspired by the new environment, but also by encounters. Visit the artists during this week in their alpine studios and maybe even get insights into five different creative processes in the making.

With their collected impressions in their backpacks, the five artists return to the valley. To kick off the Festival of Literature on Saturday evening, they will jointly present their day's work from the alpine studios. In text, photography and music they bring together on stage what has occupied and moved them during the week in the huts.
 

Discover different literary perspectives on the theme of »being« and hike to unique reading locations. Along the venues, you put together your personal route "between word and valley" from three to four readings. The 5 to 15 minutes of walking between the reading places invite you to let your thoughts wander and to let what you have heard have an effect.
 

In the finale of the Festival of Literature , a special speech and concert experience awaits you with the collaboration of the Jazz Orchestra Vorarlberg, the literary artist Carolyn Amann, and the composer Philip Yaeger. Premiered a week earlier in Hohenems as part of the literature award ceremony, the piece "Petit Mal" tells of a man who first becomes aware of his epileptic illness and leads into a world of perception before the seizure. The ensemble erupts over the voice of the literary woman, discharges without abating and thus allows the audience to dive into the depths of human consciousness.