Im Gespräch mit Rudolf Müller

In the organizer's words:

Rudolf Müller with "now suddenly"

The book

"I have nothing to say and I say it."
John Cage, Silence

In fact, only the nothingness is mine, the white surface. The texts are ruins. Remains of texts that were created by others. But can nothingness become poetry? If there were a poet without language. Perhaps. But the texts don't become denser, they become more open. More permeable.

Or: go for a walk in the heads of others, their words come to me. I let them come and go.
Some want to stay.

Or: someone allows something, releases the words and leaves the found text. Reliably. Releasing abandoned words into a new meaning. Perhaps the words in nonsense. Leave in black and white. Permeable. Left behind in space, allowed to show themselves.

Rudolf Müller, Düsseldorf

RUDOLF MÜLLER, born in Heilbronn in 1951, grew up in Biberach a. d. Riß, went to Cologne to study German and theater studies, where he then worked in the Walther König bookshop. He founded his own bookshop in Düsseldorf in 1989, opening on the birthday of Allen Ginsberg and the anniversary of Franz Kafka's death on June 3. Among other things, he is a juror for the Düsseldorf Literature Prize, on the jury for the Düsseldorf Poetry Debut Prize, on the advisory board of the Heine Haus Literaturhaus Düsseldorf poetry festival, was a member of the New Spanish Books expert group for many years and on the literary advisory board of the state capital Düsseldorf. He was a founding member of Heine Haus Düsseldorf in 2006 and a member of the German Book Prize jury in 2007. Member of the German Book Prize Academy since 2016.

Registration is requested by June 07, 2026 to im.gespraech@rsgv.de

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Talk: Philipp Holstein
Moderation: Dorothée Coßmann, SKS-Rhineland

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A cooperation of the Sparkassen-Kulturstiftung Rheinland with the Literaturbüro NRW and the Literaturhaus Heine Haus Düsseldorf

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