Bulgaria Congratulates Germany on EU Council Presidency with "Bulgarian Letters" Installation
From today "Bulgarian letters" will welcome over the summer the residents and guests of Berlin in one of the busiest places on the banks of the River Spree, near the Berlin Cathedral and the Museums Island.
The art installation is the Bulgarian greeting to the German Presidency of the EU Council, which begins on July 1. The project was implemented on the initiative of the Bulgarian embassy in Berlin and the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in the German capital with the support of the Ministry of Culture and the State Institute for Culture Under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On the German side, the project received the support of the Minister of State for International Cultural Policy to the Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany Michelle Müntefering and Dr. Klaus Lederer - Senator for Cultural and European Affairs of the Province of Berlin.
"Bulgarian letters" presents the 14 letters of the Cyrillic alphabet without a graphic equivalent in the Latin and Greek alphabets - Б, Д, Ж, З, И, Й, Ц, Ч, Ш, Щ, Ъ, ь, Ю, Я. Made as original benches, they were placed for the first time in the summer of 2018 in Sofia under the name "Hidden Letters" and created new places for reading and a kind of literary corners in the capital of Bulgaria. In the summer of 2019 the project visited Paris, and at the end of 2019 it was implemented in Rabat, Morocco.
Poems in German, French and English by 28 Bulgarian poets are attached to each of the 11 benches in James Simon Park: Alexander Vutimski, Blaga Dimitrova, Konstantin Pavlov, Ekaterina Yosifova, Nikolay Kanchev, Fedya Filkova, Mirela Ivanova , Tsocho Boyadzhiev, Georgi Gospodinov, Tsveta Sofronieva, Plamen Doinov, Silvia Choleva, Ivan Landzhev, Nadezhda Radulova, Marin Bodakov, Krassimira Dzhisova, Petar Chukhov, Galina Nikolova, Stefan Ivanov, Anna Lazarova, Dimitar Kenarov, Maria Kalinova, Nikola Nikolchina, Emanuil A. Vidinski, Kristin Dimitrova, Nikolay Atanasov and Aksinia Mihailova. A short text introduces readers to the most important information about the Cyrillic alphabet - the third official alphabet in the European Union, which is used by more than 300 million people. In September, poetry readings with the participation of some of the authors will be held at James Simon Park and the Bulgarian Cultural Institute in Berlin.
Authors of the art installation "Bulgarian Letters" of the Read Sofia Foundation are Todora Radeva (curator and producer), Kiril Zlatkov (artist) and Ivan Ivanov (architect).