{"id":15913,"date":"2019-07-31T14:07:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T14:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/?page_id=15913"},"modified":"2021-01-21T13:19:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T13:19:54","slug":"festival-krokodil-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.krokodil.rs\/eng\/festival-krokodil-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"FESTIVAL KROKODIL 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0FESTIVAL KROKODIL 2019<\/h2>\n

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\u2013\u00a0 11th FESTIVAL<\/span><\/em>\u00a0\u2013<\/span><\/em><\/h4>\n

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07\/08\/09 June 2019 –<\/span>\u00a0Belgrade<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Belgrade \u2013 Kombank dvorana, Dom omladine<\/strong>
\nDebate program: CZKD, Bir\u010daninova 21<\/strong><\/p>\n

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L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai, Svetislav Basara, Goran Markovi\u0107, Miljenko Jergovi\u0107, Zoran Kesi\u0107, <\/strong>Vladimir Taba\u0161evi\u0107, Georgi Gospodinov, Lana Basta\u0161i\u0107, Jan Wagner, Bojan Babi\u0107, Ana <\/strong>Ristovi\u0107, Rumena Bu\u017earovska, Maria Barnas and many others.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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One of the renowned European authors today, Bulgarian writer Georgi Gospodinov, presented his work during the festival\u2019s second evening. Lana Basta\u0161i\u0107, a young Bosnian writer who lives in Barcelona, Spain, read from her first novel \u201eUhvati zeca\u201c (\u201eCatch the Rabbit\u201c), while popular comedian Zoran Kesi\u0107 and the satirical fake news website crew Njuz.net were in charge of providing comic relief between the writers\u2019 39 presentations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The highlight of the festival\u2019s second evening was the presentation of L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai, one of the most important and most translated Hungarian novelists. In his\u00a0 discussion with Marko \u010cudi\u0107, Krasznahorkai talked about his writing, characterized by an apocalyptic, ironic and parodical overview of contemporary Hungary and the contemporary world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The focus of the festival\u2019s second evening was also the joint performance of two distinguished regional authors, Miljenko Jergovi\u0107 from Croatia and Svetislav Basara from Serbia. A\u00a0 special feature of this year\u2019s festival was the presentation of a large anthology of European poetry, recently published in Germany as\u00a0 \u201eGrand Tour \u2013 Europe in Poems\u201c, edited by Jan Wagner and Federico Italiano. During both evenings of the festival, the two of them presented this unique journey through the contemporary poetry of Europe via the work\u00a0 of some of the most distinguished poets in the collection, among whom are Maria Barnas from the Netherlands, Gabor Schein from Hungary, as well as the well-known Serbian poet Ana Ristovi\u0107 and Anja Golob from Slovenia. The entire program was moderated by Mima Simi\u0107.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The festival\u2019s\u00a0 debate program was held on Saturday, June 8 and Sunday, June 9 at\u00a0 12pm in Belgrade\u2019s Centre for Cultural Decontamination. This year, festival KROKODIL, as usual, prepared various public debates in which participating writers and other artists dealt with some of the most pressing social and political topics from the perspective of culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The discussion called\u00a0 \u201eNeighbors \u2013 Facing the present\u201c opened this year\u2019s debate program on Saturday, June 8 at 12pm. Rumena Bu\u017earovska from Northern Macedonia, Kozmin Perta from Romania, Ferenc Cinki from Hungary, Georgi Gospodinov from Bulgaria and Lana Basta\u0161i\u0107 from Bosnia and Herzegovina talked about the sharp rise of far right movements and the resurgence of nationalism, as well as protectionism motivated by the economic crisis and migrant waves from the Middle East.<\/span><\/p>\n

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At\u00a0 the second debate, dedicated to the \u201eGrand Tour\u201c anthology, on Saturday, June 8\u00a0 at 2pm, some of the most important European poets discussed\u00a0 the role of poets and poetry in times of dissipation of existing values. Following the project \u201eLanguages and Nationalisms\u201c, which dealt with the complex question of the reality of the existence of four political languages in the region of the former Yugoslavia, as well as its grand finale \u2013 the now very well known \u201eDeclaration on the Common Language\u201c, Association KROKODIL launched the new project called\u00a0 \u201eCommon Library\u201c. This project also deals with the subject of language but this time from the angle of literature and essay. On Sunday, June 9 at 12pm we organized a\u00a0 discussion on the topics of a common library and the possibility of common literature, or the literature of the common language instead of national or even ethnic literary selections. Participants included Igor \u0160tiks, Vladimir Arsenijevi\u0107, Miljenko Jergovi\u0107 and Lana Basta\u0161i\u0107.<\/span><\/p>\n

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On Sunday, June 9, at\u00a0 7pm at the KROKODIL Center, there was a performance by a group of young poets dedicated to oral poetry. These presentations were preceded by four days of workshops which were moderated by renowned artists from Switzerland, Serbia and Kosovo, centered\u00a0 around the program called\u00a0 The World Literary Forum. For the third year in a row, the KROKODIL festival had\u00a0 a humanitarian character. This year, we presented the cause \u201eFor Superhero Babies\u201c and invited the audience to donate to the activities of the Institute of Neonatology in Belgrade, Serbia. The team working in the Intensive care unit of the Belgrade Institute of Neonatology \u2013 Dr. Hajdarpa\u0161i\u0107, Dr. Stoiljkovi\u0107, Dr. Jovanovi\u0107, Dr.\u00a0 Kova\u010devi\u0107 and others \u2013 relentlessly work around the clock to help\u00a0 prematurely born babies to survive and grow.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The dedication, effort and love of these experts are immeasurable as well as their expertise and conscience. But this is not all that these superhero babies need. Respirators and tubes and infusion pumps are just some of the things that the Institute of Neonatology is missing.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Organizer:<\/b> Association KROKODIL<\/span><\/p>\n

Support:<\/b> Ministry of Culture and Information, Tourist organization of the City Municipality of Savski venac, Museum of Yugoslavia, Insitut fran\u00e7ais de Serbie, Goethe-institut, Kulturforum Belgrad, Prohelvetia Allainzkulturstiftung, Deutsche Akademie f\u00fcr Sprache un Dichtung, Traduki, forum ZFD, CCFD Terres Solidaires, Booka, Geopoetika, Zepter, Prostoria.<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0 program was realized under the guise of the Reading Balkans project which is co-financed by the Creative Europe program of the European Union and under the project CSO activism for regional reconciliation in the former Yugoslavia \u2013 In Support of RECOM, supported by the European Union.<\/span><\/p>\n

Partners:<\/b> Festival of the European Short Story, Goten, SZ\u00c9P\u00cdR\u00d3K T\u00c1RSAS\u00c1GA, Polip festival and Bern ist \u00fcberall.<\/span><\/p>\n

Media partners:<\/b> Nedeljnik, Danas, City magazin, Laguna radio, Play radio<\/span><\/p>\n

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