Advisory Board 

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

Readings for pupils
“Facing the Lion – Growing up as a Maasai on the African Savannah" by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton (Kenya), an autobiographical account, gives readers an insight into the fascinating culture of the Maasai and into growing up as a nomad child in the Kenyan savannah. He tells of his time in a missionary school, of his confrontation with modern technology and his alienating arrival in the USA, where he studied economics and politics and was a sociology teacher. His central themes revolve around his commitment to non-profit organisations and his political activities as a representative of the Kenyan parliament, as well as the developments in a globalised world.
In English. School years: 10-13
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
It’s the last day of the summer holidays, Garmann’s great aunts are visiting, and the air is turning autumnal. Tomorrow, school starts again. And Garmann is scared. While he waits for his first tooth to finally fall out, he philosophises with his aunts about fear and courage, about false teeth, bobble hats and skateboards. Stian Hole (Norway) will present his picture book “Garmanns sommer“ (t: Garmann’s Summer) – a story in pictures and text which tells of something which is about to end, and something which is about to start.
School years: 2-4
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_09.30_children and young adults
Weinmeisterhaus

Writing workshop with Mats Wahl (Sweden)
Workshops for pupils
Mats Wahl, who worked for many years with young people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds, will develop exciting texts with a school class.
In German. School years: 1x 8-10
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_10.00_children and young adults
Jugendkulturzentrum Pumpe

Readings for pupils
Chiara is going to the seaside, just like every summer. But this year, nothing is like it was before. Because Chiara is now thirteen and somehow the world just feels different: the good-looking pool attendant there, her friend Ludovica here, who is already becoming a real woman, and then there are the younger children who Chiara looks after as if she was their mother… While searching for herself, Chiara has to deal with unusual feelings and thoughts. Growing up isn’t all that easy… Beatrice Masini (Italy) will read from her novel “L’Estate gigante“ (t: Giant Summer).
School years: 6/7
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_10.00_children and young adults
Labyrinth Kindermuseum Berlin

It was dark and eerily quiet. Artistic workshop around Einar Turkowski‘s (Germany) children‘s book
Workshops for pupils
A man on his boat lands on a sandbank, ties it up with strange equipment, ropes and stakes, and moves into an old house on the dunes. The inhabitants of the town are wary of the unusual stranger and watch him suspiciously. When they establish that he is a cloud-fisher and uses his equipment to catch clouds and cause them to rain down splendid fish that they too would like to possess, they decide to find out his secret. Einar Turkowski‘s richly detailed children‘s book talks of human feelings such as envy, anger and hatred, as well as interaction with others. The reader encounters strange machines and grotesque-seeming techno-creatures in the plot, told through black and white pencil drawings.
During the project, children will study the other and the unknown, will learn how to express alternative points of view and possible behaviour through drawings, and develop ideas for unusual technological equipment, machines and utility objects.
Project dates: 25.09. / 29.09.2008, both 09.00-13.00.
Today: meeting with Einar Turkowski
Led by: Katrin Arnold (Universität der Künste), Sandra Vollus (Labyrinth Kindermuseum Berlin)
Participation in the 3-day project: 8 € per child. School years: 1x 4-6
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

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

The Sleeping Stoat. With Xosé Antonio Neira Cruz (Spain)
Workshops for pupils
His passion for the Italian Renaissance, for the works of Old Masters, for music and architecture inspired Xosé Antonio Neira Cruz to write his historical young person’s novel “O armiño dorme“ (2003) (t: The sleeping stoat). In diary form, the author tells the story of Bianca de Medici – the illegitimate child of the Florentine dynasty – and takes an undistorted look at the hard life that women led in the 16th century. With enlightening references to art – taking a painting by Bronzino, who was court artist to the Medici from 1533 onwards, as starting point – the author illustrates the thoughts, wishes and hopes of his young heroine, the secret daughter of Duke Cosimo I of Florence, who one day turns up at his court.
What does “Renaissance” actually mean? How did the sensational rise of Florence come about? And what part did the Medicis play in this? After a reading by the Galitian author, the young audience will set out to look for traces of the famous and notorious Medici clan during a voyage of discovery to 15th and 16th century Florence. Together with the author and a museum instructor, and using various paintings, they will find out what people of that time found beautiful and how they lived.
School years: 8-10
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

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

Please Frog, Just one Sip! A creative workshop with Piet Grobler (South Africa)
Workshops for pupils
With “Please Frog, Just one Sip!“ Piet Grobler has a whole load of exotic animals up his sleeve. On a hot day on the savannah, a thirsty frog takes a big sip from a watering hole, drinking all the water up. The other animals aren’t too pleased and try every trick in the book to get him to spit out the precious liquid. But that isn't easy: the lion tries to scratch the bloated frog, the chameleon tries to bribe him with tasty flies. Only the clever eels have an ingenious idea...
“Please Frog, Just one Sip!“ is the South African version of an Australian aboriginal dream-story. This picture book, along with other fantastic animal stories by Grobler, constitutes the starting point for an active workshop with the illustrator in the Africa and South Pacific exhibition sections of the Ethnological Museum, in which children approach the different species of animal, such as frog, lion, crocodile, elephant or chameleon through pantomime and onomatopoeitic acrobatics.
In English. School years: 1x 1-3
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
Meg Rosoff (USA/UK) will read from her new novel “What I Was“. In 1962, the sixteen-year-old Hilary’s parents have sent her to a boarding school in eastern England. The rooms are bare, the food is repulsive, and the classmates sadistic. During one of the regular trips to the coast, Hilary meets Finn who wears clothes that look like they’ve come from the last century and who lives alone with his cat in a fisherman’s hut on the coast. The two become friends. But the idyll doesn’t last long, and Hilary must realise that nothing is as it seems.
In English. School years: 12/13
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
Malorie Blackman (UK) will read from her novel “Noughts and Crosses”: Callum is a Zero – a second-class citizen in a world in which Alphas have all the authority. Sephy is an Alpha and the daughter of one of the most powerful men in the country. Since early childhood, Callum and Sephy have been friends. And out of friendship has sprung love. Callum is white. Sephy is black. The world around them is sinking into prejudice, hate, violence and fear. And their love is putting them in terrible danger.
School years: 9-11
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
Natalka Sniadanko’s (Ukraine) novel “Collection of Passions” has cult status in Ukraine. The story, tinged with traces of the author’s autobiography, tells of the emotional surges that the young Oljessa experiences in a fresh tone and with satirical cadence. Both curious and headstrong, the adolescent explores the possibilities that life opens up to her.
School years: 11-13
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_14.00_children and young adults
Weinmeisterhaus

Of inventing and constructing. Creative-Project around Einar Turkowski‘s (Germany) picture book
Workshops for pupils
As part of a project, in September 2008, a year 5 class of the Heinrich Schliemann Oberschule will study Turkowski‘s picture book "Es war finster und merkwürdig still" (t: It was dark and eerily quiet). The graphic artist Pura Kauf will invent and draw fantastic pieces of technological equipment, lends a new sense to everyday objects and develops instructions for use for old machines; the photographer Frank Kowallik discoveres technicalities with camera and computer, a constructor develops the technical side of things and gets drilling, screwing, sweating, building, cutting and sticking. Together with the young audience, literature, language, graphics, paintings, photography and new media are combined with each other in a variety of ways.
Today: meeting with Einar Turkowski
Closed event. Led by: Pura Kauf and Frank Kowallik
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_19.00_children and young adults
Schiller-Theater-Werkstatt im GRIPS Theater

Conversations with young people… With Malorie Blackman (UK) and Veronika Rotfuß (Germany)
After school and at the weekend
In cooperation with the BLI BerlinerLiteraturenitiative / BerlinerLeseratten
The young “literature critics” of the BLI will meet Malorie Blackman and Veronika Rotfuß, authors of books for young people, who will present their recent works in readings and discussions. In “Noughts and Crosses”, the British author recounts the love between Sephy and Callum, who are growing up in a world divided by skin colour and which is sinking into prejudice, hate, violence and fear. For “Mücke“, the 15-year-old protagonist of the German author‘s debut novel “Mücke im März“ (t: Midge in March), everyday life is not always easy, divided as it is between school, friends, first love and her mother’s illness – sometimes, though, it is full of moments of happiness. Young members of the BLI will lead and present the meeting and will bring to bear their experience as members of the jury for the German Prize for Youth Literature and as participants of the “literary school quartet”.
For those over 13 years of age. Entry: 5 € (Theater der Schulen 4 €). Pre-sale tickets: Tel. (030) 39 74 74 77