German–Polish Poets' Steamer

The German–Polish Poets' Steamer (Polish: Statek Literacki, German: Deutsch-Polnischer Poetendampfer) was a literary event on several ships that took place under the direction of skipper Hans Häußler together with German and Polish poets annually for 10 days from 1995 to 1999 in September between Szczecin and Görlitz/Breslau.

The "Poland plan" of Erich Loest, chairman of the German Writers Association, included the poetry festival "word lust" in Saxony.

[4] One highlight was the Poets wedding[5][6] between the Leipzig Songwriter Dieter Kalka and the Grünberger fairy tale author Agnieszka Haupe[7][8] at the Frankfurt Oderbrücke in 1998.

[9] Locally founded poetic communities emerged and created an artist's book, which was then auctioned off with the proceeds benefitting the flood victims.

[13] Tadeusz Różewicz[14][15] Henryk Bereska,[16] Andrzej Szczypiorski, Bohdan Zadura, Józef Baran, Izabela Filipiak, Bettina Wöhrmann, Urszula Małgorzata Benka, Marek Śnieciński, Marta Fox,[17] Bohdan Kos,[18] Renata Maria Niemierowska, Kurt Biedenkopf, Andreas Johannes Painta, Georg Oswald Cott, Anna Janko, Dieter Kalka, Maciej Cisło, Manfred Krug, Władysław Klepka, Urszula Kozioł, Stefan Chwin[19] Hanna Krall, Julian Kornhauser,[20] Adam Krzeminski, Agnieszka Haupe, Jolanta Pytel, Ludmiła Marjańska, Gabriela Matuszek, Jan Strządała, Róza Domascyna, Christa Wolf,[21] Andrzej Stasiuk, José Pablo Quevedo,[22] and others.