Reading is Fun!

Poems for old and young

Programm:

Friday 22 August
 14 bis 20:
composing with metal type and printing with the proofing press
with Wolfgang Reger

Saturday 23 August
14 bis 20:
Christiane Morbitzer reading poems

Sunday 24 August
14 bis 18:
nursery rhymes and songs on the barrel organ
with Ursula Groh

Many thanks to everybody who helped to makes this Summer in the Studio so wonderful.

Wolfgang Reger came from his home town Heilbronn to show how working with metal type is done properly. He told from his daily duties while working at a printing office before he retired comosing all these wedding cards and advertisements for being printed letter press.

Und After he had composed a rhyme we printed it on the handdriven proofing press telling about the handprinter’s work and the differences between profoing and platen presses.

If the rain is from sauerkraut
and the snow from saussages,
I pray to God
that the weather stays like it is.

Christiane Morbitzer had come to read to us a wonderful choice of roses’ poems, among them presenting Liliencron’s  story of the yellow rose that while waiting for the beloved lady to come again and again nearly get’s in the wrong hands of all sorts of unpleasant visitors.

Visitors came from everywhere, the listened and watched, the were surprised and amused - well, we had set out to show: reading can be fun!

Annette Disslin had found a couple of  “Toungetwisters” or “Jawbreakers”, eg
“Three Swiss witches watch three Swiss Swatch watch switches. Which Swiss witch watches which Swiss Swatch watch switch?”

That was a good laugh.

And our guests came up with their own jawbreakers in French or from Cologne and so we had a lot of fun laughing our heads of.

 Ursula Groh not only has a barrel organ, she also tells fairy tales. She played us many a tune from her barell organ and we all tried to guess the titles or even sing to the music.

Ralf Czerwonka working for our private radiostation Radio Fips, asked questions and was keen to get hold of the jawbreakers

Günter Disslin explains how letter press printing is done, what you need, what difficulties you might encounter, eg when you run out of the letter ‘y’ but still need another 5 to get your text composed.

A last mug of tea, then cleaning up the place and off we got: straightaway towards the 10th anniversary we shall be celebrating in 2009.