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First impressions of “AroundLinz”
Co-Director Ulrich Fuchs underlined the high status accorded to literature for Linz09 at the first stage of Oskar Terš’ series of writing workshops “In and around Linz” presented on 6th February in the Stifterhaus: Budweis/ České Budějovice.Fuchs emphasised that the experimental status and the skilful use of the medium of language was remarkable – especially considering the difficult prerequisite that the ten Czech workshop participants had to write in German.
Terš and the author Jaromir Konecny, who grew up in the former Czechoslovakia and has been living in Germany since 1982, worked for five days with the ten predominantly young students at the University of South Bohemia and presented the results of the work in the Budweis Goethe Centre. Attempts at social rapprochement with Linz, cultural openness and an inherent creative dynamism, which have produced from the workshop group that had been thrown together a permanent ensemble under the name “Loop Group”, are definitely on the credit side. Terš, Konecny and their protégés agree about this. In the panel discussion, Christian Schacherreiter – member of the selection and advisory jury – gave the Terš concept with its definite difference from previous writing workshops an excellent score.,
There will be further discussions between Oskar Terš and Linz09 to put together a résumé from the first writing workshop. The first preliminary exercise is now over and it is essential to coordinate the form, the extent and in which towns the writing workshops “In and Around Linz” promise added cultural value.
