Reading with Music - Martha Jarolim/Helge Stiegler

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Reading with Music Martha Jarolim / Helge Stiegler Friday, 7 August 2026, 8 PM THE MOON JUMPED UP Poems and letters by Christine Lavant Martha Jarolim / Helge Stiegler FRIDAY, 7 August 2026, 8 PM Admission: 18 Christine Lavant said in a television interview in 1968: "Well, then I just wrote, wrote, wrote, literally day and night, and of course I burned hundreds of poems, because I can do that, I'm a good loser. Eventually, my own style seemed to prevail somehow - and no longer Rilkean (like Rilke). And that was Die Bettlerschale. Christine Lavant, she chose the pseudonym after the river of her homeland, was born in 1915 as the ninth child of a miner's family. She earned her living through the arduous work of hand-knitting, mainly at night. Martha Jarolim reads a selection of poems from Die Bettlerschale, as well as one letter each from Christine Lav...