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This month, Jacinta chats to American poet and Beatstreet organizer, Michael Haeflinger, about poetry, Sarah Palin – and adapting to life in Germany.So, what made you set up Beatstreet?
Well, I didn't, actually – it was Robert Grant but seeing as he's overseas I suppose I could take the credit. But no, it was all his idea, he started Beatstreet up coz he knew this guy in Mitte who owned a restaurant and this guy was like: "Do you wanna start a poetry reading?" So he did and that was really cool until one day Rob phoned the dude up and he was like: "Oh, sorry, I just sold it." So we phoned the new owner up – and the new guy was totally okay with it and we went there and he was renovating right? And so we did it in his basement. And afterwards, he just kept on bringing us trays and trays of beer – they just kept on coming – and then at the end of the night he just hit us with a bill for €80.
Ouch.
Yeah, that wasn't so cool.
That is always my personal nightmare about free drinks, I get so paranoid.
Apparently it happens in Berlin all the time, loads of people say it happened to them.
Hey, so some people – I won't name any names, I'm too nice – but some people, you know what they say about Beatstreet? They say it's a boys' club. What do you have to say to that?
Well, I'd say that – wait a minute, do they mean literally as in boys? I don't know that that's true. I wouldn't say that. We book people from all over the world, people we don't know, I don't think that's true. Hey, what else do they say about us?
Oh, they say you're brilliant, of course. Everyone's always nagging me to come along, saying it's a great night. And it is, you know, it's a great venue. I was pretty drunk, though.
I think that's a typical Beatstreet experience, being pretty drunk.
Those wine glasses are big, huh? So tell us about yourself. How long have you been in Berlin?
Since June 2007. Before that I was in Chicago, working with teenage poets, for a non-profit association. I came over here because of my partner – she had problems with her Green Card in the States. She's German, she's from Görlitz, n Saxony.
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