Agnès Guipont 

Agnès Guipont (c) Julie Meresse

Agnès Guipont was born in France in 1969. She is a musician, writer and trained actor and has lived in Berlin since 2002. She is currently setting the 24 Sonnets by Louise Labé to musicA first EP with six songs from this cycle is being released in 2021, a collaboration with the guitarist Jonathan Bratoëff 

Her work is heavily marked by poetry and theatre. She has published two poem cycles (L’eau reposait sur le dos du vent and Oreille, in Anthologie des poètes pas morts, Le Veilleur Édition) in Paris, where she has also worked for many years as an actor and speaker for France Culture. In Berlin she has been involved in several theatre productions and has worked as a co-author, musician and sound artist (including SophiensaeleInstitut FrançaisHAUTheater unterm DachTheater EigenreichHfS Ernst Busch, Noyman Miller, Museumsquartier Wien). She is a founder member of the non-profit organisation Network of French-Speaking Women Writers in Berlin. 

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