Centennial Celebrations in Germany. We noted last week events in Dortmund (and Allen’s poem “Ruhr-Gebeit”). Last month (June 3rd) there was also the illuminating evening in Berlin, at Buchhandlung Knesebeckstraße 11, a reading and talk with poet and translator, Michael Kellner with German poets Durs Grünbein, and Alexander Schnickmann
Durs Grünbein & Allen Ginsberg reading, Berlin, c.1990 – photograph (and all photographs) courtesy Michael Kellner
Durs Grünbein reading, Berlin, June 2026
Alexander Schnickmann reading Berlin June 2026
Michael Kellner
Michael Kellner interviews Durs Grünbein
More Ginsberg-in-Germany – Michael Kellner is currently preparing a little pamphlet about Alles visit in East Berlin in 1983. More on that anon