Creative Writing Call – Heidelberger Frühling

Call for Creative Writing on the Subject of Nature & People!

As part of the Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival 2024 's "Brahms.LAB", three young musicians are inviting everyone to contribute thoughts and texts on the subject of people and nature for an art project.

Submissions by Sunday, February 11 to Franziska Spohr(f.spohr@heidelberger-fruehling.de), can be included in the project creation. If you have any questions, please call Franziska Spohr on +49 (0)6221 584 00 33.

Dear people in Heidelberg,

What does nature mean to you? What grounds you, what worries you? Do you think about the relationship between human and non-human life?

We are interested in your thoughts and perspectives. A topic that concerns us all should become art and you can contribute to this.

We are Marlene Heiß, pianist and project developer, Wolke Milena Wilke, violinist, singer and performer and Tamara Kurkiewicz, percussionist and performer. As members of the Festivalcampus-Ensemble of the Heidelberger Frühling Musikfestival 2024, we are jointly realizing an artistic project as part of the Brahms.LAB.

Based on some of Johannes Brahms' most beautiful songs with a reference to nature, we explore the relationship between man and nature and the growth and decay of our planet in a musical-performative study. This performance will be performed on April 3, 2024, 8.30 pm, in Dezernat 16 under the title Brahms.LAB III: HumanNature.

As this topic affects us all, we would like to include your thoughts!

Perhaps your texts will inspire us to create music, perhaps poems will become part of the interior design or an exhibition will be created in the foyer of the concert location.

Send us your texts, written thoughts, poems or poetic associations. All contributions are welcome!

You can also get together and write something together.

Here are more details, suggestions and inspiration:

1) Short, simple poems

Haikus are short poems originating from Japan and are inspired by nature.
Haikus do not have to rhyme or have a certain rhythm.
Haikus consist of only 3 lines and have a 5-7-5 syllable structure.

Example:

first line (5 syllables): "Wind on my skin"
second line (7 syllables): "Wind gets under my skin"
third line (5 syllables): "Earth beneath me"

Further information here: https://de.wikihow.com/Schreibe-ein-Haiku-Gedicht

2) Longer poems or own texts

Haikus are too short for you? Do you like rhyming, want to write in continuous text or have a story to tell? We are happy to receive longer contributions!

3) Free thoughts

You want to share words with us in a completely free form? With pleasure!

Here are a few key questions:

What is my relationship with nature?
What grounds me?
When do I feel "in tune"/ in harmony with nature?
What worries me?
What is threatening me?

In inner preparation for spring:

What dreams do I have for the new year? What wants to come to light? What dreams do I have for the new year? Which "seed" do I have to plant for this?
What do I associate with the well-known "spring clean"? What do I want to "cleanse" or start again? Are the first "buds" already appearing? How can I strengthen them?
How can the new in me also become visible around me? What care and space is needed

We are looking forward to your entries!
Marlene Heiß, Wolke Milena Wilke and Tamara Kurkiewicz

Franziska Spohr will also be happy to answer any questions by telephone on 01520/9338176.