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Villa Wild #19: From the news
Mixed Show - Talk & Music
We are continuing with the VILLA WILD event format, hosted by Nora-Eugenie Gomringer and Martin Beyer!
Their guests on the topic of news are:
Tickets: theater.bamberg.de
Events
Wühl!
A reading by MICHAEL STAUFFER (Fellowship 2012/13)
Poet Stauffer is back in the country: villa-concordia.de/biography. That promises to be amusing.
In his luggage to Bamberg, he has his new release Wühl! If you want to experience the Swiss author, whose entire work was awarded the Villa Concordia fellowship of the Free State of Bavaria in 2012/13,...
A Poetry Automat for Bamberg
Lyrical spatial in(ter)vention by MATTHIAS GÖRITZ and VOLHA HAPEYEVA
Chewing gum or cigarette vending machines are well known, but poetry vending machines are less so. Matthias Göritz, who was awarded the Villa Concordia fellowship in 2013/14, is curating the contents of such a Poetry Automat, together with the poet and translator Volha Hapeyeva!
The principle is...
Monkey Business (12.5.-14.6.2026)
DUBIOUS DEALINGS. Opening of an exhibition featuring tapestries by Beate Passow
In 2025/26, Beate Passow was awarded the Villa Concordia fellowship by the Free State of Bavaria: villa-concordia./artist.
Tapestries by the Munich-based artist will be on display in the Villa Concordia exhibition space from May 12 to June 14, 2026.
You are cordially invited to the exhibition...
New guests from Czechia and Germany!
Welcoming new artists for the 2026/27 fellowship
The new host country, from which around half of the new fellowship holders will come, is the CZECH REPUBLIC! They will work from Bamberg for 5 or 11 months starting in April 2026.
This had previously been proposed by our Board of Curators to the Bavarian Minister of Culture. The names of our new...
Najem Wali: A place called Kumait
Meriam Abbas reads and Carsten Otte (SWR) moderates.
Najem Wali was awarded the Villa Concordia Fellowship of the Free State of Bavaria in 2018/19: villa-concordia.de/artist. His new book, Ein Ort namens Kumait (A Place Called Kumait), a love story set in Iraq before the American invasion, will be published in February 2026:
