Susanne Schirdewahn

A Fernweh-card from SUSANNE SCHIRDEWAHN, sent from Berlin to my Berlin adress, along with a corresponding homesickness - postcard. I got to know Susanne he first time some month after my stay in Nebraska City and invited her to take part at the project nevetheless. We met during an interview she with me about the Anonymous Drawings Project last summer.

Susanne is an extremly mulitfacated artist: She writes, draws and paints. Her newspaper columns for Berliner Zeitung are always fun to read - they show a lot of her fine sense of humor matched by a great sensibility for the people she talks with.

Ilse Ermen

Another postcard from ILSE ERMEN. Life is good! Ilse took the motive of an original postcard from Ann Arbour, Michigan / 1995

Kristina Marie Darling

A postcard from KRISTINA MARIE DARLING, delivered personally from one room to the next. Kristina is my roommate here in Nebraska City. She is a poet, fiction writer, and critic, based in St. Louis, Missouri USA.  She is the author of over twenty collections of poetry and hybrid prose. Kristina held numerous artist-in-residence fellowships across the USA and abroad. To learn more about and her work have look at her website.  And here is an interview: Kristina on her Book "Brushes with"

Markus Bickel

A postcard from MARKUS BICKEL sent from Kairo, Egypt.
Markus and I know each other quite a long time, we attended the same grammar school and met there some day in the 80s. There are lot of shared memories about growing up in a small town in Germany of the Eighties.

Markus was born 1971 in Caracas/Venezuela. He did several trips through Chiapas, Guatemala, Venezuela, and Brazil in the 1990s. And after finishing journalism school in Munich (DJS) and his studies of political science in Berlin he stayed in the Old World: first as editor of the weekly “Jungle World”, then as Balkans-correspondent, based in Sarajevo. He wrote about the former Yugoslav postwar-republics until 2005, when he left Europe for the Middle East. From Lebanon he reported for Spiegel Online, Die Zeit, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.). In 2008 he joined Germany’s leading daily as editor. Since 2012 he works as Middle East Correspondent for F.A.Z. in Cairo. http://www.weltkiosk.net/markus-bickel

Anthony Barilla

A postcard from ANTHONY BARILLA, sent from Houston, Texas / USA. Tony was a fellow resident at the KHN Center for the Arts, and my roommate for two weeks. His poem is about a memorable group-trip to the River Country Nature Center in Nebraska City.  A lot of carefully arranged taxidermy over there. And a lovely guide.

Tony is a musician, writer, and performance artist based in Houston. Between 1998 and 2007 he worked principally with Infernal Bridegroom Productions, a Houston-based theater company. He contributes music to the national radio program “This American Life” and is currently working on a multi-year collaboration called Whole Wide Water with writer Lindsay Kayser, a songwriting collaboration with Merel van Dijk and a work of his own called Disputed Territories.

Erin Sickler

A postcard from ERIN SICKLER, sent from Albany, NY / USA.  Erin  is a writer and art curator. After working with artists and arts organizations on both East and West coasts, Erin set out on her curatorial career in New York City at PS1/MoMA before serving as Assistant Curator at the Queens Museum and, from 2009 to 2013, as Gallery Director for 601Artspace. In addition, she has mounted independent exhibitions and projects throughout New York City and abroad. She was a founding member of Arts and Labor a group advocating for fair and transparent labor practices in the arts, and has spoken internationally on art and alternative economies. Her writing has appeared in numerous catalogs and blogs as well as Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail, and Artlink. Together with Alexis Bhagat Erin recently founded Art and Context, which  is an “artist-oriented” consulting firm offering affordable advising, professional development and project management to artists. An interview with Erin as well as some of her writings can be found here.

Erin is currently working on a book of first-person essays on art and trauma for which she received the 2014 Millay Colony Residency for Non-Fiction. This is were the both of us met in July 2014 as fellow residents. We spent one month over there, surrounded by forests, beavers, hummingbirds, fireflies, black bears and many other creatures. I very much enjoyed her company, the talks we had about pretty much everything, having dinner with the other residents, drinking wine and smoking cigarettes, watching the sunset over the trees. 

Dorit Trebeljahr

A postcard from DORIT TREBELJAHR, sent from Berlin, Germany. Dorit is a visual artist: she draws and creates fragile sculptures and objects. Besides the visual art she also writes, and she is the coeditor of Prolog-Heft für Text und Zeichnung, together with her partner Anton Schwarzbach.  Dorit, Anton und Patrick Weh Weiland organize in regular intervals the salon-tz-p: inspiring and intimate evenings with readings, small exhibitions, performances and concerts and several side-surprises.

I am always glad to be invited by Dorit and Anton & Patrick to join salon-tzp, Prolog or other events they organize. The three of them are the loveliest and most charming hosts one can imagine. Dorit's work can bee seen here: http://dorittrebeljahr.blogspot.com/

Eva Christina Meier

A postcard from EVA CHRISTINA MEIER from Berlin, Germany.
Eva and I met at Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weissensee as
fellow students. Eva is a photographer and curator.
She also publishes texts and interviews about
Latin American art and literature in newspapers,
such as tageszeitung. Since 1997 Eva travels
to South America in regular intervals for work
stays and research projects. She curated a
couple of exhibitions dealing with the art and
history of Argentina, Chile and Peru.

 Curiosity - Desire - Weariness -  this might be to the point,
I think, and accidentally I look at the wall vis-à-vis.
http://www.eva-christina-meier.de/

Alex Booth

A postcard from ALEXANDER BOOTH, sent from Berlin, Germany: "The postcard is a watercolor & colored pencil treatment of a photocopy of an old rendering of the 1st century BCE mausoleum dedicated to Cecilia Metella, which is located at the beginning of the Appia Antica in Rome. The tomb was partially built on lava rock, which was believed to be indestructible & so too, by extension, the memory &, more importantly, love of she in whose honor the tomb had been constructed. It has long been a very important place to me." Alex moved from Rome to Berlin, Schöneberg, two years ago. He was born and raised in the USA and grew up bilingual, speaking English and German. Alex and I met in Rome in 2005 where he lived at the time and I had a temporary artist grant at the Casa di Goethe.

Alex's book-length translation of German poet Lutz Seiler's in field latin is forthcoming in 2016 with Seagull Books. Other work has most recently appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Massachusetts Review, PEN America Journal, & Poems in Which. In addition, he keeps a weblog on (mostly) Rome in literature and Roman literature, Misera e stupenda città. Work can also be found at https://wordkunst.wordpress.com/

Hannes Becker

A postcard from HANNES BECKER, sent from Berlin, Germany. Hannes is a novelist, a playwright and a translator for English and German. Hannes studied at Deutsches Literaturinstitut Leipzig.

And - the most important thing for me: Hannes is my youngest brother. 10 years younger than me. I left our home close to Frankfurt when Hannes was 9 years old. He moved to Berlin some years later. Now we are living in the same town again, luckily!

Patrick Weh Weiland

A postcard from PATRICK WEH WEILAND:  "There will be space for us in a yellow tent"
Patrick is an artist living in Berlin, Germany. He writes, he sings, he plays weird instruments, he dances and he draws, he collaborates with other artists, poets and musicians. He a truly delightful allrounder! He has a band called SchnickSchnack.

"WEH of any kind is a longing / longing yields hope / hope is the power making us  human beings - welcome to the good life -"  https://patrickwehweiland.wordpress.com/

Esmé Weijun Wang

A postcard from Esmé Weijun Wang . 
Esmé is a writer and speaker from San Francisco, California, USA

Esmé is one of the current residents at the KHN Center or the arts in Nebraska city.

Esmé personally handed over her postcard just now. Thank you Esmé!

Joshua Weiner

A postcard from Joshua Weiner posted from Washington, DC -  USA

 Joshua Weiner  is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish (Chicago, 2013)

Dong Li

 I found this letter with a postcard inside in the mailbox the day I arrvied at KHN center for the arts on January 19/ 2015

A postcard from DONG LI, a writer and poet. Dong was born in China. Pine needles on cardboard.

Dong Li's letter has been mailed from the USA, where he now lives.  Some of his poems you can find HERE and HERE Dong is also a resident of the KHN center for the Arts - he arrives at the end of February. See you soon, Dong and thank you for the first Fernweh-postcard!