Kreatives Schreiben & Textgestalten

Sie möchten gerne kreativ schreiben und den Text auch gestalten - eventuell auf einem Tablet?

Der Kurs bietet Anregung zum Schreiben kurzer Texte (Gedichte, ganz kurze Prosa) und zeigt Möglichkeiten, diese auch zu gestalten. Dies kann mit traditionellen Mitteln geschehen, wir wollen aber auch die Möglichkeiten von Tablets (mit Apps) oder dem Computer ausprobieren.

Voraussetzungen für das kreative Schreiben gibt es keine! Tablets (iPad oder andere), Smartphones oder Laptop bringen Sie zum Kurs, falls sie diese einsetzen möchten.

Der Kurs ist auch offen für TeilnehmerInnen, die Technik nicht nutzen möchten.

Ab 6 TN

Referentin:               Ellenruth Molz, M.A., Alzenau 

Teilnahmegebühr:    siehe Martinushaus Aschaffenburg, Programmheft

 Zeit:                            Mittwoch, 18.30 – 20.00 Uhr, 5x

 Termine:                    15.10./12.11./10.12./21.01.2015./25.02.2015

Anmeldung: Martinushaus Aschaffenburg

http://www.martinushaus.de/index.php?id=27&Veranstaltung=Kreatives%20Schreiben%20und%20Textgestalten 

 

How to be a smarter reader

There's plenty of advice out there to help you read more – but what about how to get more from what you read? 
Here's how:

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/feb/08/how-to-be-smarter-reader-do-something?CMP=fb_gu

Classic literature in Lego – in pictures

From a bloody battle in George RR Martin to a sensual scene from Jane Austen, Waterstones has been recreating setpieces from great literature in toy bricks to coincide with the release of The LEGO Movie. Take a child's eye view of classic books here

http://www.theguardian.com/books/gallery/2014/feb/19/classic-literature-lego-in-pictures-dracula-romeo-and-juliet?CMP=twt_gu 

Was ist Literatur — heute?

Vor 67 Jahren identifizierte Jean-Paul Sartre die Literatur mit zwei zentralen Begriffen: mit dem "Engagement" und dem "Pakt der Großzügigkeit." Ist diese Beschreibung im elektronischen Zeitalter noch plausibel? Von Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht
1947, vor siebenundsechzig Jahren und in einer für die Jüngeren unter uns unvorstellbar anderen intellektuellen Welt, hat Jean-Paul Sartre genau die über diesem Blog stehende Frage im Titel seines Buchs “Qu’est-ce que la littérature?” gestellt und ebenso ausführlich wie bündig beantwortet. “Genau” um dieselbe Frage ging es tatsächlich, da auch Sartres Thesen spezifisch auf sein “Heute,” also die Zeit des Nachkriegs, Bezug nahmen. Und so intensiv haben sie nachgewirkt, dass ihre zentralen Begriffe immer noch – wie ein Reflex – in der Erinnerung von Lesern aufscheinen, denen aus Passion oder auch aus beruflichem Anlass an neuen Antworten gelegen ist. 

http://blogs.faz.net/digital/2014/01/24/ist-literatur-heute-469/ 

In Michael Gove's world Jane Austen, Orwell and Dickens will die out

Michael Gove is Mr M'Choakumchild and Thomas Gradgrind personified: "What I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else." In Gove's schools, whatever might seize the imagination, give pleasure and stay in the heart and mind for a lifetime longer than rote-learned facts is being rooted out.
When he has done with cleansing the curriculum, it may be the case that fewer people know who Gradgrind and M'Choakumchild are. Dickens and much of literature will be a closed book to those not lucky enough to encounter them outside their exam-crammed education. English literature is to be stripped out of the core English GCSE exam, leaving nothing but grammatical correctness and straitjacket language reduced to right and wrong answers. Literature is to become an optional extra, and probably not a highly regarded one, for fear it might let the imagination roam dangerously free. English language, maths, three sciences, a foreign language and history or geography are the core English baccalaureate subjects. The rest is silence, more or less. (But soon few may recognise that reference.) In a world of harsh exams, with the screw tightened down to factual rigour, league table tyranny will increasingly sideline optional extras.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/05/gove-austen-orwell-dickens-die-out 

Can men write good heroines?

Can men write good heroines? Most of the heroines I write about in my book How to Be a Heroine are written by women. And most of the heroines I find most problematic are written by men. It's very troubling to go back to Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid and find that it's a story about a mermaid who gives up her voice for legs to get a man. And even as a girl, I was furious with Charles Dickens for letting Nancy get bludgeoned in Oliver Twist and, later, outraged that Samuel Richardson heaped pain and indignity on Clarissa and called her "an Exemplar to her sex" as though learning to suffer well made us exemplary.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/18/can-men-write-good-heroines?CMP=fb_gu 

Why don't French books sell abroad?

French authors routinely appear in the English-speaking world's lists of the best novels ever - Voltaire, Flaubert, and Proust… sometimes Dumas and Hugo too. But when it comes to post-war literature, it's a different story. Even voracious readers often struggle to name a single French author they have enjoyed.

France once had a great literary culture, and most French people would say it still does. But if so, how come their books don't sell in the English-speaking world?
Is that our fault or theirs?
And how come the French themselves read so many books that are translated from English and other languages?
These are provocative questions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25198154 

Young adult readers 'prefer printed to ebooks'

Sixteen to 24-year-olds are known as the super-connected generation, obsessed with snapping selfies or downloading the latest mobile apps, so it comes as a surprise to learn that 62% prefer print books to ebooks.
Asked about preferences for physical products versus digital content, printed books jump out as the media most desired in material form, ahead of movies (48%), newspapers and magazines (47%), CDs (32%), and video games (31%).

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/25/young-adult-readers-prefer-printed-ebooks?CMP=fb_gu 

Game creators use literary tricks - and lure audiences

Once known for being crude and violent, some video games now feature sophisticated storylines and characters. Some players see a new literary tradition arising.

Clementine is a girl who is trying to survive a zombie apocalypse in a video game series based on the comic book and television franchise The Walking Dead. But for Michael Abbott, who teaches theatre at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, she is more than that. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25305351

"London NW" von Zadie Smith: Muskeln zeigen

Rassismus, Klassensystem und Coolness: In "London NW" fügt Literaturstar Zadie Smith ein faszinierendes Mosaik urbaner Biografien zusammen. Ihr bestes Buch.

Zadie Smith heißt nicht Zadie Smith, jedenfalls nicht exakt so. Ihre Eltern hatten sie Sadie genannt, als Teenager tauschte sie selbst das S gegen ein Z ein. Eine winzige kleine Änderung, die trotzdem als Schlüssel zu Smiths neuem Buch "London NW" taugt. Auch in dem ändert eine der Hauptfiguren ihren Namen. Als Keisha geboren, nimmt eine schwarze angehende Anwältin während des Studiums den Namen Natalie an. Weil das womöglich "weißer", in jedem Fall aber mehr nach Mittelschicht klingt als nach der Sozialbausiedlung im Londoner Nordwesten, in der sie aufgewachsen ist. 

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/london-nw-neuer-roman-von-zadie-smith-zaehne-zeigen-a-942488.html 

Poet und Black-Power-Aktivist: Amiri Baraka ist tot

Er war einer der großen Intellektuellen der schwarzen Bürgerrechtsbewegung in den USA der Sechziger und Siebziger - und bis zu seinem Tod eine umstrittene Figur. Der radikale Poet Amiri Baraka starb am Donnerstag mit 79 Jahren.

Amiri Baraka, geboren als Everett LeRoi Jones am 7. Oktober 1934 in Newark, New Jersey war Dichter, bekennender Kommunist, Black Power-Aktivist und radikaler Regierungskritiker. Sein leidenschaftlicher Spoken-Word-Vortragsstil nahm den Rap vorweg - und er war eine höchst umstrittene Figur. Am Donnerstag starb der Schriftsteller im Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, wie sein Agente Celeste Bateman mitteilte. 

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/amiri-baraka-leroi-jones-schriftsteller-und-black-power-aktivist-gestorben-a-942770.html 

The Most Popular Book Among Critics in 2013 Was…

It’s December, and along with the holiday preparations and the shortened days, this time of year brings with it the barrage of year-end lists. Over the past weeks, critics and editors from numerous publications have released their Top 10 and Best-of-2013 lists in which they share their favorite movies,TV shows, albums, songs, and books (among an array of cultural offerings) of the past year.

http://entertainment.time.com/2013/12/13/the-most-popular-book-among-critics-in-2013-was/

A Point Of View: Why Charles Dickens endures

As Christmas approaches, so Charles Dickens begins to seep once again into TV and theatre schedules. I have my own theory about the reason for his cultural longevity. Listen to this:
"There was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities - had been an officer in a South American regiment among other odd things - but had not achieved much in any way of life, and was in debt, and in hiding. He occupied chambers of the dreariest nature in Lyons Inn; his name, however, was not up on the door, or door-post, but in lieu of it stood the name of a friend who had died in the chambers, and had given him the furniture. The story arose out of the furniture… "

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-25347787 

Neil Gaiman: Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming

It's important for people to tell you what side they are on and why, and whether they might be biased. A declaration of members' interests, of a sort. So, I am going to be talking to you about reading. I'm going to tell you that libraries are important. I'm going to suggest that reading fiction, that reading for pleasure, is one of the most important things one can do. I'm going to make an impassioned plea for people to understand what libraries and librarians are, and to preserve both of these things.

And I am biased, obviously and enormously: I'm an author, often an author of fiction. I write for children and for adults. For about 30 years I have been earning my living though my words, mostly by making things up and writing them down. It is obviously in my interest for people to read, for them to read fiction, for libraries and librarians to exist and help foster a love of reading and places in which reading can occur.

So I'm biased as a writer. But I am much, much more biased as a reader. And I am even more biased as a British citizen.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/oct/15/neil-gaiman-future-libraries-reading-daydreaming?CMP=fb_gu 

Teaching Thoreau In a Hyper-Connected World

Nashville English teacher Elizabeth Smith introduced Thoreau’s Walden by asking her AP juniors if they were ever truly alone in a hyper-connected world — even without a smartphone. In doing so, she wanted to emphasize how Thoreau’s Transcendentalist experiment living alone in the woods might be nearly impossible to replicate in modern, plugged-in lives — at least not without some effort.

“One student said that he gets panicked if he goes an hour without a text message,” she said, “and he has to blow up his friends’ phones with messages to make sure they are still out there.” Other students, she said, bristled at the idea they were sheep in the digital herd, and liked to think of themselves as being able to manage a healthy balance between solitude and digital connection.

But for both adults and kids — parents, teachers, and students — because we have the luxury of being instantly and constantly connected, “Being alone feels like a problem to be solved,” said MIT Professor Sherry Turkle in the moving TED Talk based on her book, Alone, Together. Based on her research, Turkle argued that relationships maintained through texting and social media might make kids feel connected, but because the phone is always buzzing, they may miss valuable opportunities to experience real solitude, which is vital for self-reflection. “If we don’t teach our children how to be alone,” she said, “they will only know how to be lonely.”

http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2013/10/teaching-thoreau-in-a-hyper-connected-world/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kqed%2FnHAK+%28MindShift%29 

Literaturkurs im Martinushaus: "Zeitsprünge"

Zeitsprünge

Island: Herbjörg Maria Björnsson, Jahrgang 1929, lebt in einer Garage und lässt ihr Leben in Zeitsprüngen Revue passieren.

Wir bearbeiten Hallgrímur Helgasons Roman Eine Frau bei 1000º, der 2011 auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse vorgestellt wurde.  'Skurill', 'fulminante Sprache', 'ein gelungener, bissiger Roman' - ein Meisterwerk der besonderen Art erwartet uns.

                             

Kursmaterial:          Helgason, Hallgrímur: Eine Frau bei 1000º

                                 DTV, 2013

                                 ISBN-13: 9783423214490

                                 9,95 €

Referentin:              Ellenruth Molz, M.A., Alzenau 

Zeit:                         Mittwoch, 10.15 – 11.45 Uhr, 5x

Termine:                  09.10./13.11./11.12./15.01.2014/12.02.2014

Anmeldung:             Martinushaus Aschaffenburg

                                 http://www.martinushaus.de/index.php?id=27

Literaturkurs Herbst 2013 - "Umwelt * Eigenwelt * Mitwelt" - Kursinfo

Umwelt * Eigenwelt * Mitwelt

Literaturkurs Herbst 2013

63741 Aschaffenburg

10 Termine montags, 17.00 - 18.30 Uhr

Kursgebühr 200,00 Euro

Anmeldung: mail@creativzeit.com

Literaturkurs Herbst 2013 "Umwelt * Eigenwelt * Mitwelt"

What's the worst book on your bookshelves?

Contributors to our regular Tips, Links and Suggestions threads usually enjoy a debate about good reads. This week, however, thoughts turned to terrible ones. We've all struggled with poorly written books; ironically, they're often the ones we can't get rid of, gathering dust on our shelves.

MsCarey kick-started the debate with these thoughts:

What's the worst book on your bookshelves? I was just browsing my shelves and came upon Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie. It's an absolute stinker. Unreadably bad.

Surprising words, perhaps, from a self-confessed "big Christie fan". Sadly, for MsCarey, "the book's turgidity, ludicrous pomposity and a literally nonsensical plot which clearly hadn't been edited properly by author or editor" are the book's only legacy.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2013/sep/16/open-thread-worst-book-you-have-read 

A Bookless Library Opens in San Antonio

Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff isn’t the man you’d imagine as the visionary for the nation’s first all-digital public library.

The former San Antonio mayor doesn’t own an e-reader (“I refuse to read the e-book!” he says) and for years has collected first editions of modern novels (in print, mind you). Back in the 1990s, Wolff helped spearhead San Antonio’s 240,000 square-foot, six-story, $50 million central public library, a building the city is now struggling to figure out what to do with. Today, Wolff says he would’ve avoided building such a large facility.

http://nation.time.com/2013/09/13/a-bookless-library-opens-in-san-antonio/