Advisory Board 

_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_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_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