Simone Lappert / Martina Berther / Florian Zinnecker

She reads her poems at the Harbour Front Sounds Festival, accompanied by the musician Martina Berther: »längst fällige verwilderung« is a spoken poetry performance with poems and fantasies. In Lappert’s verse, thoughts are covered with moss, while the moon shines as brightly as silicon. Love tastes of quince, the catastrophe tastes of strawberries, and the poet asks: »how are we supposed to get through the winter if there’s no future?«

These are texts about new departures and farewells, about yearning and self-determination and the fragile present. »längst fällige verwilderung« is sometimes noisy and wild, at other times soft and thoughtful, and moments of irony pop up with regularity. The experienced electric-bass player Martina Berther (Frida Stroom, Ester Poly, Sophie Hunger) picks up different motifs from the poems in her music, contrasting them, accompanying and intensifying them.