Festive opening evening: Jacek Dehnel, Caspar David Friedrich and the Viceroy of Rügen

How do today's artists see paintings by Caspar David Friedrich? This spring, the Greifswald Festival Nordischer Klang posed this question to Jacek Dehnel, the well-known Polish poet, prose writer and painter, among others. The result is scenes in which the author confesses to his favorite painting by Friedrich and creates surprising connections between the old painting and our time in his personal text. These completely different and unexpected approaches to Friedrich's imagery demonstrate his unbroken, multifaceted impact. Jacek Dehnel, born in Gdansk in 1980, studied literature and philosophy in Warsaw and is a poet, prose writer, translator and painter. He became internationally known in 2006 with his novel "Lala". In 2005 he was awarded the Koscielski Prize and in 2010 his poetry collection Ekran kontrolny ("Control Screen") was nominated for the most important Polish literary prize, Nike. Dehnel also translates from English and Russian.