The poem “avenidas” of Eugen Gomringer was removed in 2018 from the facade of a Berlin University because students found it sexist. Now way is it surfaced again, not that far.
to see The poem “avenidas” of the poet Eugen Gomringer’s back to the wall of a House in the Berlin district of Hellersdorf. In the past year, the Hellersdorf Alice-Salomon University had removed the poem from its façade, because the students saw it as sexist, because it tells the story of “flowers and women”. Instead, a poem by the poet Barbara Köhler emblazoned there now. The decision was open to the public has been the subject of heated discussion.
Now, the Berlin housing cooperative has installed “Green center” Gomringers work in consultation with the author on one of your buildings near the Alice Salomon University of applied Sciences. It is to be seen in a German and a Spanish Version. The cooperative had announced the step last spring. In an open letter, from the Berliner Zeitung quoted, wants to fight “the Green center” with action against a “dictatorship of the Hellraisers”. “It is not the Active that want to make this city be supported, but those that are against everything”.
The Alice Salomon University of applied Sciences responded left on the step: “We are very happy”, – quotes the Berliner Zeitung, “that is now two facades in the district to make the variety of the works of Preisträger_innen of the Alice Salomon poetics prize visible in the public space.”