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FEMPOEM

The Austrian Podcast Fem Poem (gr. poiēma, „The process of making; production, creation; creativity“, poiēo „I do/ I make“) holds space for the beauty of literature, activism, body politics, queerness and feminism.

Podcast · By Romina Achatz · Austrian German · Official site

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Aug 13, 2026
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  1. Episode · Aug 13, 2026

    Stephan Hellweg: Zwischen Brasilien, Eifel und Berlin (opens the original)

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    Zwischen Brasilien, Eifel und Berlin: Stephan Hellweg im Gespräch Schauspieler, Moderator und Sprecher Stephan Hellweg war zu Gast bei FEM POEM. Im Gespräch mit Romina Achatz ging es um seine autobiografische Lesereihe Zwischen Brasilien, Eifel und Berlin , um Literatur als Begleiterin durch unterschiedliche Lebensphasen und um die Frage, wie persönliche Erfahrungen in künstlerische Arbeit einfließen. Hellweg wurde in Brasilien geboren und wuchs nach seiner Adoption in der Eifel auf. Heute arbei

  2. Episode · Jul 24, 2026

    Invisible People: an exploratory, experimental film on Butoh (opens the original)

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    Berger spent four years living in Japan, moving within communities of dancers, filmmakers, and musicians. What began as informal, narration-free filming — including weekly visits to Yoshito Ohno’s studio — slowly unfolded into a long-term cinematic attention to Butoh as it continues to exist today. Invisible People follows dancers who hover between visibility and invisibility, between appearing and disappearing and memory. Rather than explaining or historicizing, the film stays close to bodies,

  3. Episode · Jul 24, 2026

    An exploratory cultural and theoretical history of mermaids (opens the original)

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    In this radio essay, Romina Achatz explores the cultural, philosophical, and literary history of mermaids, undines, and sirens. Beginning with ancient and medieval myths, including the writings of Paracelsus, she traces how water-bound, feminine-coded figures were once understood as embodiments of nature, transformation, and the emergence of the soul. The essay then examines how, within European traditions, these figures gradually become tied to narratives of love, possession, and projection. Th

  4. Episode · Jul 24, 2026

    Butoh histories: Seminal and forgotten figures of 1950&1960s Japan (opens the original)

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    In this episode, Romina Achatz speaks with writer Stephen Barber , author of Films Ghost: Tatsumi Hijikata and the Transmutation of 1960s Japan , about seminal and forgotten figures who shaped the Japanese avant-garde of the 1960s. The conversation focuses especially on filmmakers and the remarkable collaborations between Butoh dancers, photographers, writers, philosophers, and choreographers surrounding Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno . Drawing on his personal encounters, Stephen Barber reflect

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