Write in the Wrong
»There is no right life in the wrong one« Adorno famously wrote in 1951, meaning that individual lives cannot »truthfully« exist within corrupt and unjust systems. How could texts handle the limitations imposed on them by political structures? Can external restrictions be incorporated into a text and add layers to it, rather than limiting and muting it? To what extent can the body and the so-called background of the writer serve as a vital layer, adding complexity and nuance to the text?
The meeting will be an eight-hour practice-based meeting and will include a lunch break as well as writing time. All participants are kindly requested to bring a short text (no longer than one page) on the topic of »restrictions«. This could be a poem, an excerpt from a novel, a dialogue, a fragment, a short story. It can be written in either English or German (we will be writing, speaking and using both languages). Please bring your laptops, a notebook and a pen. Please also bring an additional printed copy of your text for me – I will need it to support you during your writing process.
To apply, please send your text by 25.10. Capacities are limited to 15 participants.
Date: 1.11.2025, 10:00–18:00
Free entry! Application via mail to: campus@lfbrecht.de
Sivan Ben Yishai, born in 1978, has lived in Berlin since 2012. Her plays are frequently performed. With the play LIEBE/ Eine argumentative Übung (LOVE/ An Argumentative Exercise), which was written as part of her residency at the National Theatre Mannheim, she was invited to the Mülheim Drama Prize 2020. She received the 2022 Mülheim Drama Prize for WOUNDS ARE FOREVER (Self-Portrait as National Poet), which deals with Palestinian-Israeli-German history.
