Programme

_09.00_children and young adults
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Große Bühne

Readings for pupils
Hilmer Eriksson has disappeared. His parents, and especially his girlfriend Ellen, are distraught. While investigating, Inspector Harald Fors comes across a group of right-wing youths. Everyone fears them. Even the headmaster prefers to bury his head in the sand, and simply paints over the graffitied swastikas. Only Hilmer dared to protect a foreign pupil…Mats Wahl (Sweden) will read from his young person’s crime novel “The Invisible” and from inspector Fors’ third case “Kill”.
School years: 8-10
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_09.30_children and young adults
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Seitenbühne

Readings for pupils
Farshid Shafiee (Iran) will present magical stories, myths and legends from his homeland Iran, such as “Schahrzâd“, a colourful version of “One thousand and one nights”, which tells the story of the raging ruler of Kondsched-Schak, who isn’t able to quiet the famous story-teller Schahrzâd – even after turning her into a stone bird. The artist will display illustrations full of warm colours and will talk abut growing up in contemporary Iran.
School years: 1-3
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_09.30_children and young adults
Weinmeisterhaus

Illustration studio with Einar Turkowski (Germany)
Workshops for pupils
The north German illustrator crafts his work out of letters, scripts, photographs or newspaper extracts and creates, together with children, gift cards centring around various themes such as mythical creatures and ships.
School years: 1x 3/4
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_10.00_literature of the world
Mark Twain Bibliothek Marzahn-Hellersdorf

Natalka Sniadanko (Ukraine)
Presented by: Inge Zenker-Baltes
In Ukraine, Sniadanko’s novel “Sammlung der Leidenschaften“ is treated as a cult object. The partially autobiographical story, written in a fresh, satirical style, recounts the emotional states of the young Ukrainean Olyessa. While growing up, the young woman explores – curiously and obstinately – the possibilities that open up in her life.
Free entrance

_10.00_children and young adults
Jugendkulturzentrum Pumpe

Readings for pupils
“I’m drowning in this deafening silence. I’m drowning. I’m going to die...” Cameron is thirteen years of age and urgently needs a heart transplant. He has already been waiting too long for a donated organ. He is sick of being able to only watch life’s more interesting moments. One day a respected doctor makes Cameron and his despairing parents an outrageous offer: he can give Cameron a new heart - not a human’s, but an animal’s. Malorie Blackman (UK) will read from her novel for young people “Pig-Heart Boy”.
School years: 5/6
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_10.00_children and young adults
Labyrinth Kindermuseum Berlin

Garmann’s Summer. Artistic workshop around Stian Hole’s (Norway) children’s book
Workshops for pupils
What do you want to be when you grow up? What does it really feel like to have butterflies in your stomach? And just how do you spell rhubarb? These and other everyday questions preoccupy the six-year-old Garmann, in a digitally constructed children’s book by the Norwegian author and illustrator. With great sensitivity, he recounts Garmann’s last carefree summer, who will be going to school after the holidays. Garmann gets a visit from his three old aunts, with whom he philosophises about fear and courage, about false teeth, bobble hats and skateboards. While Garmann is waiting for his first tooth to fall out, he thinks a lot about expectations, duties and fears.
During the project, the children will examine Garmann’s musings and think about growing up and getting older. Small groups will work on individual aspects of the book, and the children will create varied collages in which they express their world view.
Project dates: 26.09. / 29.09. / 30.09.2008, every day at 09.00-13.00. Today: meeting with Stian Hole
Led by: Tanja Schmidt (Artistic and literary projects), Sophie Neander (Qualified social instructor)
Participation in the 4-day project: 10 € per child.
School years: 1x 4-6
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_10.00_children and young adults
Die Gelbe Villa

Birds, rainbows and onomatopoeia. A Little Bird’s ABC Workshop with Piet Grobler (South Africa)
Workshops for pupils
With great attention to detail, the South African artist creates colourful and lively fantasy worlds populated by people, animals, angels and other wonderful creatures. Piet Grobler will present his small but exquisite “Little Bird’s ABC” – of which there is also a cartoon version – as well as his children’s book “The Rainbow Birds”. Over the course of a lively afternoon, the illustrator will create, together with the children, a large rainbow-coloured installation made up of colourful paper birds.
In between, creative lunch break in children’s and young people’s restaurant “Five Seasons” run by Berliner Tafel e.V./die gelbe Villa.
Six years and above. School years: 1 x 2-5
Lunch: 1 € per child / donation for material: 1 € per child.
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_10.30_children and young adults
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin | Ethnologisches Museum

Facing the Lion – Growing up as a Massai. With Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton (Kenya)
Workshops for pupils
“Lemasolai“ (“The Proud”) is a Massai boy in the Kenyan savannah, a runner of great stamina, an able cowherd and a rascal who is happy to disobey orders if he sees some more exciting distraction on offer. Even if he can’t always escape the punishment of the “pinching man”, Lemasolai is the golden boy of his family. All in all, despite all the privations that nomadic life brings with it, he lives happily in his family and village community. In contrast to his brother, he goes to school which is situated sometimes 8, 30 or 70 kilometres away – since his home village is situated where there is enough grass for the bulls.
In his book “Facing the Lion”, which recalls his childhood as a member of an Ariaal clan in Northern Kenya and as a pupil in a Kenyan boarding school, he tells of his first encounter with a lion, the acceptance of social rules in the village, circumcision and the confrontation with modern technology and civilisation.
After the meeting with the author and politician, the young audience will look for traces of Massai culture, and will get the chance to take a peek into the storehouse of the Ethnological Museum.
School years: 2x 7/8
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_11.00_children and young adults
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Foyer

Readings for pupils
For as long as he can remember, Quentin Jacobsen has been crazy about the simply divine Margot Roth Spiegelman. When she unexepectedly asks him one day to accompany her on an ingenious campaign of revenge, he’s only too happy to comply. After the night-time operation, which with is connected to both of their pasts, Quentin goes to school only to find that Margo has disappeared. But she has left behind clues – for him. And the closer Quentin gets to the revered girl, the less Margo seems to be the Margo he thought he knew... John Green (USA) reads from “Paper Towns“.
In English. School years: 10-12
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_11.30_children and young adults
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Seitenbühne

Readings for pupils
Veronika Rotfuß (Germany) will read from her debut novel “Mücke in März” (t: Midge in March). Mücke’s mother is very ill, her father in Tokyo, as usual, and for gym-class she has to put on her old sparkly pink leggings because no-one has done the laundry…but luckily, there are times when everything is just fine: When she sits with Nora above the roofs of the town, or when she drifts in the Hotel Majestic’s swimming pool with Yurik. Mücke and Yurik recently became an item! But that can’t help cure her mother of her early-onset dementia…
School years: 7-9
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_13.00_children and young adults
Schaubude Berlin

Fairy tales, myths and legends. A Theatre-Workshop around pictures by Farshid Shafiee (Iran)
Workshops for pupils
The colourful illustrations of the Iranian artist Farshid Shafiee look like they have been taken from “One thousand and one nights”. His image worlds become the source of inspiration for the pupils of the Erika Mann primary school. In this 4-part workshop, the children will make up their own stories, or adapt well-known fairy tales. Through the artistic expressive possibilities afforded by the puppet and picture theatre, a jigsaw made up of elements of foreign culture and one’s own identity is created, a jigsaw where West and East meet.
The theatre-oriented Erika Mann primary school in Berlin’s district Wedding/Mitte offers accommodation to children from 22 countries. Through theatre, the children gain linguistic competency from the very start, and learn how to deal artistically with the problems they meet in everyday life through the fascinating language of objects.
Project dates: 29.09. / 30.09. / 01.10.2008, each day 9.00-12.00
Today: meeting with Farshid Shafiee. Closed event.
Led by: Ramona Schulz, Katja Sommer, Sabine Köhler.
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_13.30_children and young adults
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Seitenbühne

Readings for pupils
Daisy’s father has sent her to England. She is supposed to spend the summer with her eccentric relatives in the countryside. The old, rambling house and the garden with the weather-worn stone angel – all of this is completely foreign to the New Yorker, and yet she has never felt so safe. And she has never before met people like Edmond, Isaac, Osbert and the little Pipers. Certainly no-one like her cousin Edmond. In “How I Live Now”, Meg Rosoff (USA/UK) tells the story of a great love and a mysterious civil war, which forces the five young people to undertake a traumatic odyssey.
School years: 10-12
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_18.00_reflections
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Foyer

Stadtwelt_Weltstadt: Johannesburg. Omar Akbar (Germany), Ivan Vladislavić (South Africa)
Presented by: Marie Neumüllers
The South African metropolis, Johannesburg, last made the headlines with news of the xenophobic attacks. Some South Africans see the immigrants from Zimbabwe as competitors for employment. It is a symptom of how fractured the South African cities still are even though the official end of Apartheid is almost 15 years behind them. Ivan Vladislavić, author of the award-winning “Portrait with Keys” in discussion with the urbanist and director of Bauhaus, Omar Akbar.
In cooperation with the Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau

_18.00_children and young adults
Schiller-Theater-Werkstatt im GRIPS Theater

Literature for Young Adults, Vol. 7
After school and at the weekend
Four authors and illustrators are presenting their texts and pictures to young adults.
John Green (USA) presents his book for young people “An Abundance of Katherines“: child prodigy Colin has been in love 19 times, always with girls called Katherine – and they all sent him packing! After being persuaded by his only friend Hassan to take a roadtrip through the States, he meets the smart Lindsey, his first non-Katherine…
Meg Rosoff (USA/UK) examines, in her novel “Just in Case”, questions of fate: David only just manages to save his little brother from falling out of the window. From now on, the question is no mere thought experiment for David. He changes his name to Justin Case, gets himself an invisible greyhound, and tries to run from fate.
Stian Hole (Norway) has brought a digital Collage - “Garmanns sommer” - along with him, in which he brings together photographs, cuttings, elements of jewellery and highly realistic drawings to create a poetic work.
Einar Turkoswki (Germany) will present his picture book “It was dark and eerily quiet”, drawn with four hundred pencils – a book populated by grotesque technological beings, machines and robots. Alongside their current works, the illustrators will present impressive drawings, sketches and studies from their studios.
Presented by: Shelly Kupferberg. For those above 13 years of age.
Entry: 5 € (Theater der Schulen 4 €). Pre-sale tickets: Tel. (030) 39 74 74 77

_18.15_kaleidoscope
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Seitenbühne

Sjón (Iceland) – Poetry Reading
Reader: Frank Arnold
Selected translations from Sjón’s poems were first published in the bibliophile volume “söngur steinasafnarans / gesang des steinesammlers“ in 2006 (with watercolours by Gerd Koberling). The Icelander, who became well-known in Germany first and foremost through his prose works, not only got his start as a poet (he published his literary début at the age of sixteen), as he has published eleven volumes of poetry over the years – but he has also written numerous song lyrics, for Björk or the Lars von Trier film “Dancer in the Dark” for example. Sjón will be reading a cross-section from his often surreally compacted, poetic texts.

_19.00_kaleidoscope
Literaturhaus | Großer Saal

Daniel Schwartz (Switzerland)
Presented by: Wolfgang Hörner
The first foreigner to do so, Daniel Schwartz followed the entire length of the Great Wall of China in 1987. Afterwards the borderlands, in which great cultures multiplied itself and warred against each other, didn’t let go of him. Further travels over the next twenty years were purely for adventure (over the Karakorum or Pamir Highway, forgotten routes along the Silk Road, through the Taklamakan Desert and over the Caspian Sea), others led to hard-to-reach places, quite a number of which were reckless trespassings through politically volatile territory (Afghanistan under the Taliban, Kashmir, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Xinjiang). Schwartz will present his book "Schnee in Samarkand".
In cooperation with the Eichborn publishing house

_19.00_kaleidoscope
Ingeborg-Drewitz-Bibliothek Steglitz-Zehlendorf

Owen Sheers (UK)
Presented by: Jan Bild
Meet the author! Owen Sheers’ novel “Resistance“ (2007) takes place in the autumn of 1944, in an isolated Welsh village, whose male inhabitants all leave one night to join a resistance movement. Soon afterwards, a group of German soldiers appears in the village. Despite the troops’ strict orders not to get involved with the women, both sides have to admit that, due to the harsh winter, they are dependent on each other if they want to survive. “Resistance“ was received with enthusiasm by the English press.
In English
Free entrance

_19.30_kaleidoscope
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Seitenbühne

Poetry Night IV – China. Ouyang Jianghe (China), Tang Xiaodu (China), Xi Chuan (China), Zhai Yongming (China)
Presented by: Wolfgang Kubin
Reader: Michaela Steiger, Friedhelm Ptok
So far only the Chinese writers that belong to the so-called „misty poets“ have gained international acclaim, e.g. Bei Dao. Their successors from the late eighties onwards only seem to be known by insiders. Wolfgang Kubin presents a group of poets who in their lyrics use elements of experimental, Western as well as traditional Chinese poetry.

_19.30_kaleidoscope
Literaturhaus | Kaminraum

Amanda Michalopoulou (Greece)
Presented by: Birgit Hildebrand
“The Goose” was a board game, which Francesco di Medici invented and played with the King of Spain, Philip II. The original game is simply the cover for another game, a family history with secrets, myths, lies and recipes. Inspired by this, Amanda Michalopoulou and her husband (the artist Dimitris Tsoumplekas) follow the trail of a newly-invented past and attempt to give a new sense to the family history. Maybe the family recipe for Christmas goose is the only document that really gives a picture of a family that keeps no records or photographs, but only different versions of a myth.
In cooperation with the Greek Culture Foundation

_19.45_kaleidoscope
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Foyer

Rattawut Lapcharoensap (Thailand/USA)
Presented by: Knut Elstermann
Speaker: Margarita Broich
The title of Lapcharoensap’s first novel is “The End of Siam”. The bulk of the book is set in late sixties and early seventies Thailand, and follows the story of a boy growing up in a small, nameless province in the northeast of the country, the illegitimate son of a field marshal. The novel is as of yet unpublished and unfinished.

_20.00_specials
Kunstfabrik Schlot

Jazz and Poetry
Fiction and real music – with Peter Kleiß and guests
Two diehard jazz musicians and an author – sounds like the classic poetry-and-jazz concept of the sixties. The artistic philosophy of the participants may originate from this time of uprising and rebellion, but there are no wild youths on stage here; rather old friends who no longer need to mince their words. They talk and make music in the here and now. Fiction and real music, jazz and poetry.
Entrance 5/4 €

_20.00_speak, memory
ICI Berlin

Cesare Pavese: Dialogues with Leucò, The Moon and the Bonfires and The Burning Brand
Readers: Frank Arnold, Gerolamo Fancellu and Christan Steyer
Introduction: Manuele Gragnolati
Concept: Agnese Grieco
When Cesare Pavese, one of the most important Italian writers of the 20th century, committed suicide in 1950 in a Turin hotel room, a copy of his work “Dialogues with Leucò“ was lying on his bedside table. These shorts works, with mythological background, labelled by Pavese as Dialoghetti, “little dialogues”, offer a key to the major themes of Pavese’s work, which are dealt with in “The Moon and the Bonfires” and “The Burning Brand”: themes such as the existential troubles of man, the ambivalent power of love and art, and the bitter lessons of history.
An ICI Berlin event in cooperation with the Italian Culture Institute

_20.00_kaleidoscope
Sloppy Joe’s | La Rayuela

Edmundo Desnoes (Cuba). Reading and film showing
Presented and read by: Florian Borchmeyer and Peter B. Schumann
Havana during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Sergio, an anti-bourgeois bourgeois stayed in the country after Castro’s victory. With the eyes of one who has become a foreigner he notices the changes in himself and others, he dissects his relationships to women as if they were a living organism. “Memories of Underdevelopment” is probably the most unusual novel to have come out of post-revolutionary Cuba. In 1968, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (“Strawberry and Chocolate”) adapted it for the cinema. Edmundo Desnoes himself wrote the script. It was to become the most legendary Cuban film of all time. Forty years after the film première, the novel is being published for the first time in German. After the reading, the film will be projected on a big screen. (Original version with subtitles.)
In cooperation with the friends of the Ibero-American Institut and Suhrkamp Publishing House
Entrance 6 € (reading and film)

_20.00_kaleidoscope
Kulturhaus Mitte | Salon

Kiran Nagarkar (India)
Presented by: Martin Jankowski
A special edition of the Literatursalon Mitte: The Indian novelist Kiran Nagarkar (“God’s Little Soldier”) and the winner of this year’s “Brigitte” Novel Prize Aiko Onken (“Marie und er und ich”) (t: “Marie and him and me”) in the Literatursalon on Auguststraße.
In cooperation with Berliner Literarischen Aktion e. V. and Random House publishing group.
Entry 5/3 €

_21.00_literature of the world
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Foyer

Marina Warner (UK)
Presented by: Bernhard Robben
Reader: Michaela Steiger
The British author, narrator, anthropologist and mythical expert will read from her newly issued work "Phantasmagoria: Spirit Visions, Metaphors, and Media" – about the interaction between traditional ideas of spirit, and mass media and computer technologies.

_21.00_speak, memory
Literaturhaus | Großer Saal

Hubert Fichte
Introduction: Wilfried F. Schoeller
Speaker: Astrid Gorvin
Hubert Fichte‘s (1935-1986) work is among the most penetrating testimonies to post-1945 German literature. The “first globalist” – in the words of Wilfried F. Schoeller, who supervised an exhibition of the author’s works in the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg – adapted his experiences on journeys with Leonore Mau to Europe, North and South America and Asia into verse: “Ethnopoetry”.
Entry 6/5/4 €