fluid frame – learning democracy from rivers ist als dialogisches Literaturprojekt konzipiert im Rahmen der Literaturdialoge. Es bringt zwei unterschiedliche, miteinander verbundene Perspektiven aus Österreich und Ungarn zusammen, die im direkten Austausch entwickelt werden. Anstatt eine einheitliche Stimme zu erzeugen, erkundet das Projekt plurale und fluide Sichtweisen, hält Differenz aus.
Our dialogue began during an international poetry residency in Ptuj, Slovenia, and continued through conversations and collaborative thinking. What connects our approaches is a shared interest in rivers as spaces of memory, movement, and political imagination – and in fluidity as a counter-model to control, fixation, and ideological closure. The project understands democracy not as a stable framework, but as a practice that must be learned, negotiated, and reimagined through language.
Das Projekt arbeitet bewusst mehrsprachig. Deutsch, Englisch und Ungarisch erscheinen nebeneinander als Teil des künstlerischen Konzepts und spiegeln Übersetzung, Asymmetrie und Dialog als demokratische Praxis.
about us
Péter ZÁVADA (1982, poet, playwright) is the author of the poetry collection Wreck in Lee (2017), for which he won the Horváth Péter Literary Scholarship, in addition to five other books of poetry. He is also a recipient of the Örkény István Playwriting Scholarship (2016), the Móricz Zsigmond Literary Scholarship (2017), and the Cogito Prize for Young Philosophers (2023). Závada won the Critic’s Choice Award for the best Hungarian theatre production of the year in 2021. He currently holds a full-time position as an assistant professor in the Eötvös Loránd University Department of Aesthetics.
Siljarosa Schletterer (1991, poet, author, cultural organizer) is the author of azur ton nähe. flussdiktate (2022) and entschämungen. körperkantate (2025). Her work explores language, body, and landscape, often engaging with water as motif and method. She has been invited to international festivals and translated into several languages. She is co-organizer of the International Poetry Festival W:ORTE. She received the Major Literary Grant of Tyrol and the Literary Recognition Award of the University of Innsbruck. www.siljarosaschletterer.com
our journey
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