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Ende August 2011 ist das „Wendebuch“ von Ursula Hohler und Ruth Lewinsky im Verlag Wörterseh erschienen.
Das Buch enthält eigentlich zwei Bücher: auf der einen Seite ist es ein Gedichtbuch von Ursula Hohler, wenn man es wendet ist es ein Gedichtbuch von Ruth Lewinsky. In der Mitte des Buches treffen die Autorinnen aufeinander und schreiben sich gegenseitig einen Brief.
Dieses Buch können Sie im Buchhandel kaufen. Falls Sie ein signiertes Exemplar möchten können Sie es auch mit dem Bestelltalon weiter unten bei der Autorin direkt bestellen.
(Wörterseh Verlag, ISBN 978-3-03763-019-8)
Zwei Weiber
In der Nacht vor Sylvester
ziehen sie durch meinen Traum
und erinnern mich
woran
weiss ich nicht mehr
Ursula Hohler
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«Auf Poesie
wie diejenige von Ursula Hohler stösst man nicht, sie fällt
einem zu», charakterisierte die Musikerin Barbara Jost (Langendorf)
den erlebten «Zündfunken». Sie war auf den vor zwei Jahren
erschienenen Gedichtband «Öpper het mini Chnöche vertuuschet»
von Ursula Hohler aufmerksam geworden und hatte spontan Gefallen gefunden,
elf der kurzen mundartlichen Gedichte für Frauenstimmen zu vertonen.
Im experimentierfreudigen Chor bocc'aperta und seiner Dirigentin Renata
Würsten traf sie auf eine musikalische Gruppierung, die gerne Grenzbereiche
ausleuchtet und nicht die immer gleiche musische Kost aufbereiten möchte.Das
Zuhörer-Glück komplettierte die Begleitung, die aus Barbara
Jost mit facettenreicher Oboe und Flöte, aus dem virtuosen Werner
Aesch- bacher am Schwyzerörgeli und dem vielseitigen Künstler
Pius Bessire bestand, der nicht nur mehrere Instrumente beherrscht, sondern
auch noch zum gezupften Saiteninstrument pfeift wie ein wahrer «Zaunkönig».
(Gundi Klemm in der Solothurner Zeitung vom 28. 3. 2006)
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Alternative
to War: Creative aftermath of Worldwork 2004
eds Sara Halprin
and Ursula Hohler
Changing Worlds Publications, Eugene, Oregon, 2004, 79 pp.
This book is a collection of the creative work that flowed from the biannual
conference or gathering of the process work community that is called Worldwork.
Process work, also known as process-oriented psychology, has been called
a multicultural, multileveled awareness practice. Founded by Dr Arnold
Mindell, originally a phycisist and Jungian analyst, it is a way of unfolding
the experience of individuals, groups and organisations so as to bring
hidden, often creative, dimensions to light. Its uses are many, including
individual psychotherapy, working with groups in conflict and in the arts.
World work is ‘a group work method based on the assumption of deep
democracy, namely that each voice and every feeling needs representation
in order for a group to know itself and resolve its issues’ (Mindell:
Dreaming While Awake, Hampton Roads, 2001). Specifically it is that method
used in a context where world issues such as war, racism and gender-based
oppression emerge in the group.
Sara Halprin and Ursula Hohler’s collection brings together the
creative work of some of those who attended Worldwork 2004 on the Oregon
coast. The range of contributions reflects the extraordinary scope of
world work and of process work itself. The pieces move from strong prose
descriptions of unearthing and expressing the feelings, the histories,
and ultimately the raw energy at the root of war, through to gentle poetry
expressing connection and liberation. They give voice in a graphic and
personal way to the experience of unfolding the unknown and the discovery
of new and creative directions which might indeed provide an ‘Alternative
to War’. Such personal accounts demonstrate the potential of process
work in a way that a purely theoretical account cannot do. In case this
might all be thought too daunting and serious, the collection also includes
a piece by a participant who confesses to having had ‘an awesome
lot of fun’. The contributions are visual as well as verbal, with
a powerful cover painting and a number of striking and beautiful drawings
and photographs. A personal favourite for me was a piece of writing which
deals with the challenge of communicating the experience to those who
were not there, and would never imagine themselves there. The book itself
is of course an experiment in exactly that. It is designed to allow the
(uninitiated) reader's sense of worldwork and process work to unfold,
much as it does during the actual event, and without explanation or introduction.
This is in keeping with process work as a strongly experiential method,
as although it has been highly theorised in a substantial literature,
that is a different matter. For someone who would like to know what it’s
like without actually being there, this is the book to read.
Although the contributions are short and this makes it tempting to go
on from one to the next, I found it was unwise to read quickly. Each individual
contribution deserves attention and is worth savouring – so take
it in small chunks. I hope the book will be widely read both because it
expresses the potential of process work and because it shows us we can
explore the origins of war, and do so creatively without producing another.
Gina Clayton
April 1st 2005
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