Contemporary Ukrainian and Austrian Poetry

Chernivtsi Television, 1998. The episode of the program "First There Was a Word" is dedicated to the visit of Austrian artists to Chernivtsi and an evening of Ukrainian-Austrian poetry readings.

On the video: program screensavers; synchronisation by teacher Valentyna Shvets; the building of the former hotel "Zolotyy Lev"; the main building of Chernivtsi National University named after Yu. Fedkovych; Jewish People's House; buildings of Chernivtsi; monument to Olga Kobylyanska; hall of the Chernivtsi Regional Memorial Museum of Volodymyr Ivasyuk; editorial office of "Bukovynskyi Journal"; their own poems were read by: poet Halyna Tarasyuk (and also in German translated and performed by Alois Voldan); poet, professor of the Department of Ukrainian Literature Borys Bunchuk; writer and journalist Myroslav Lazaruk; writer Svitlana Kyrylyuk; Austrian poets Gudrun Sadenauer, Birgit Müller-Wieland (in Ukrainian translated and performed by Yuriy Andrukhovych); a musical number was performed by literary critic and author Larysa Berezhan; among those present were poet and writer Vasyl Kozhelyanko; poet and translator Halyna Petrosanyak.

Commentators: Austrian professor of Slavic studies, Ukrainian studies, popularizer of the Ukrainian language, literature and culture Alois Voldan; professor of the ChNU Anatoliy Volkov; event visitors: Tetyana Hryhoriychuk; Lesya Buimister.