Empathy When
Reality has gotten strange. Throughout the summers of 2020 and 2021 we would like to invite you to join us at the poolside in Tropez for a series of readings and poolside chats with writers, poets and artists. Literature has the means to help us escape, reimagine the world anew, or offer bold new ways to engage with the world. It's empathy building. It's also fun. Between weekly live readings and interactions with the Tropez live webcam, BDP and Tropez are excited to announce Empathy When, Tropez Writing Podcast! We will be recording our invited guests and producing a weekly podcast for you to enjoy, socially distanced storytelling! www.tropeztropez.de for full programmeHost and co-producer: John Holten Sound design, recording and co-producer: Jemowit Nowak Executive Producer: Nora Nele HeinerfetterPhotos: Inkk Agop
Episodes
21 episodes
S2E10 - Tom McCarthy
In this episode John Holten is joined by Tom McCarthy. Tom McCarthy’s work has been translated into more than twenty languages and adapted for cinema, theater, and radio. His novel, C, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Walt...
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S2E9 - Calla Henkel
In this episode John talks with Calla Henkel. She was born in 1988 in Minneapolis, MN, USA. A writer, playwright, director and artist, she currently lives and works in Berlin. She has staged plays at Volksbühne Berlin, The Whitney Museum of ...
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Episode 9
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50:08
S2E8 - Miriam Stoney
John talks with Miriam StoneyThis week John is joined by Miriam Stoney. Often working collaboratively, her practice is primarily textual, encompassing art writing, performance, audio and installation. In 2021 her first solo ex...
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1:00:32
S2E7 - May-Lan Tan
John talks with May-Lan Tan. We talk writing, details, sex writing, screenplay readings…May Lan is the author of the short story collection Things to Make and Break, published in the UK by Sceptre and in the US by Coff...
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42:29
S2E6 - Kristian Vistrup Madsen
John talks with Kristian Vistrup Madsen. We have a fascinating conversation about Kristian’s correspondence with a prisoner in the USA, what it means to tell people’s stories and how writing can lead to a better understanding of ourselves an...
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Episode 6
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54:47
S2E5 - Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro
John talks with Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, a poet, writer and editor about life in Berlin - and other cities, the life and work of Audre Lorde and the book by Lorde which Castro edited in 2020, Dreams of Europe. Other topics include a...
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Episode 5
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43:47
S2E4 - Rebecca Rukeyser
John talks with writer Rebecca Rukeyser about teaching creative writing, and writing workshops, the art of writing and editing, the revisionist western as a genre, her fantastic novel The Sea Plane on Final Approach and we carry out a darede...
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Episode 4
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45:38
S2E3 - Habib William Kherbek
John talks with writer Habib William Kherbek. This was a great chat about lots of things - London, being in a band, William’s new novel ‘Best Practices’, fundraising and development aid, pub quizzes and much more. William has a lot of books abo...
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Episode 3
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S2E2 - Mark von Schlegell
John talks with writer Mark von Schlegell about a whole bunch of things: Jacques Derrida in NYC, Dublin’s Forty Foot, 19th century American literature, Mark’s unique fiction and criticism, LA in the 1990s, science fiction, being Laurence Weiner...
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S2E1 - Kasia Fudakowski
John talks with artist Kasia Fudakowski about her new book ‘The Roll of The Artist Volume 1’, ex-boyfriends, the artist Lee Lozano, Andy Kaufman, Liesl Karlstadt, Karl Valentin and we get an insight into what a German citizenship ceremony is...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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43:36
Empathy When 10 (Bonus): Jessica Korp: Unterwasser Atmen
This special extra episode rounds out the series of Empathy When. It features a wonderful chat with Jess Korp, and her presentation of her research and study at the swimming pool this summer. C...
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Empathy When #9 with Elif Saydam
Warning: I go full Oprah in this one! For the penultimate in the corona-time series of socially distanced podcast-readings, I chat with artist Elif Saydam. Saydam is a painter and writer, and has worked with Broken Dimanche Press in the past, m...
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Empathy When #8 Samantha Bohatsch
Want to hear some terrible French? This episode, I start with some dreadful French. But thankfully, it's quickly forgotten thanks to the wonderful Samantha Bohatsch. Samantha's practice covers many shapes and forms, with texts, reading performa...
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Episode 8
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46:20
Empathy When #7 Musa Okwonga
No. 7 turned out to be a delight. This episode I changed the format up a bit because I had never met Musa Okwonga until I had the pleasure of having this conversation with him. I had read
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Episode 7
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Empathy When #6 Adam Fearon
For this outing of BDP's Empathy When, we were delighted to be joined on the terrace of TROPEZ by Adam Fearon. Get ready to travel from Berlin to Frankfurt, Cairo to Baghdad, Adam reads his incredible essay that goes below the surface of the Fa...
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Episode 6
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1:03:32
Empathy When #5 Mitch Speed
The sun is shining in this one! In this episode John Holten is joined live on the Tropez terrace by artist and writer Mitch Speed. Reading his much commented upon essay, 'The Case Against Art', the conversation is anything but boring. Mitch Spe...
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59:36
Empathy When #4 Jasmin Reimer
Please join us for Empathy When no. 4! We're delighted to welcome you to the terrace of Tropez to enjoy the poetry of Jasmine Reimer. She will be reading some of her book Small Obstructions, and then having a chat with John Holten.
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Episode 4
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41:55
Empathy When #3 Anna M. Szaflarski
In this episode, John Holten is joined live on the Tropez terrace by artist and writer Anna M. Szaflarski. In 2004, Szaflarski competed at the Canadian Olympic Trials. That is to say, she can swim, and swim well. For this session, she composed ...
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39:14
Empathy When #2 Alan Murrin
This Saturday for the next installment in our series »Empathy When« we'll be joined on the terrace by Alan Murrin! Alan Murrin is an Irish fiction writer based in Berlin. His fiction has been anthologised in »Literally Speaking Berlin 2019«...
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40:34
Empathy When #1: Dani Ghassan Arbid
Empathy When starts with Dani Ghassan Arbid. Born in London, raised in Abu Dhabi, Arbid is a writer, filmmaker and recent entrepreneur. He has worked and lived in Istanbul, Beirut and Berlin where, in 2018, he co-founded Barakunan GmbH...
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Episode 1
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56:25
Introducing: Empathy When by Broken Dimanche Press & Tropez
This summer we invite you to join us at the poolside in Tropez for a series of readings and poolside chats with writers, poets and artists. Literature has the means to help us escape, reimagine the world anew, or offer bold new ways to engage w...
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