International Children's and Youth Literature

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

Readings for pupils
The graphic artist, poet and author Ted van Lieshout (Netherlands) presents inventive poems and drawings from his poetry-picture books “Jij bent mijn mooiste landschap“ (t: You’re my most beautiful landscape) and “Mama! Waar heb jij het geluk gelaten?“ (t: Mum! What have you done with happiness?). Poems in the form of crossword puzzles, and with transparent letters, poems about parrot fish, nighttime and happiness and a grand sonnet made from triangles, squares, circles and rectangles.
School years: 4/5
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_09.30_children and young adults
Weinmeisterhaus

Writing workshop with Tobias Scheffel (Germany)
Workshops for pupils
In cooperation with the BLI BerlinerLiteraturInitiative / BerlinerLeseratten
Tobias Scheffel, translator of Timothée de Fombelle’s adventure novel “Toby Alone”, will talk about the everyday life of a translator, as well as working on passages from his novel translation with the young audience, and encouraging them to attempt their own translations.
School years: 1x 8-13
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_10.00_children and young adults
Stiftung Branderburger Tor | Max Liebermann Haus

Readings for pupils
In “Meriyll”, Viktor Canosinaj (Albania) tells of growing up in Albania after the end of the communist regime: after the death of her mother, the fourteen-year-old Meriyll has to take responsibility for the household and for her brothers and sisters, while her unemployed father spends his day in the pub. Meri starts work in a fast food restaurant and in the evening goes out with Klara and her friends Genc and Aldo – without realising that the two young guys mean nothing but trouble. Can Meri count on her old friend Sid?
School years: 8/9
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_10.00_children and young adults
LesArt

“Where is the cake?”. With Thé Tjong-Khing (Indonesia/Netherlands)
Workshops for pupils
The chocolate cake has disappeared from the Dog family’s coffee table. Two grey robbers are rushing away with their loot… Mr and Mrs Dog behind them… But there’s more going on than a simple robbery: where has the eleventh duckling disappeared to? Who has spirited away Mrs Cat’s hat, and why are all the animals suddenly staring at the top of the rock? Thé Tjong-Khing’s wordless picture book gives the answers. Its detailed double pages demand attentive viewing and give rise to story-telling. Lots of exciting things go on alongside the thieves, who hurry ever forwards from double page to double page.
In preparation for today’s event with Thé Tjong-Khing, Frank Schulz will pursue the cake-robbers in part 1 of the 2-part LesArt-event and will develop, together with children, their own picture stories.
Part 1: 08.09.2008, 09.30 (ca. 2.5 Hrs.), LesArt
Led by: Frank Schulz (LesArt). School years: 1 x 3/4
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

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

Readings for pupils
While returning to the kingdom of Shin-Yogo, the spear-warrior Balsa sees Prince Chagum fall to near death from a bridge. Courageously, Balsa jumps into the river and saves the boy. The empress appoints her to be Chagum’s bodyguard. Balsa is meant to take him to safety – because the emperor himself is out to take his son’s life… Nahoko Uehashi (Japan) reads from her fantasy epic “Guardian of the Spirit" and will show extracts from its animé adaptation.
School years: 6-8
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_13.00_children and young adults
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Seitenbühne

Readings for pupils
“Les Yazinskis”, Patty and Mado’s parents, are killed in a car accident, and the twenty-year-old Patty with a lust for life obtains custody for her sister Mado, five years younger and level-headed. In her novel “La vie comme elle vient” (t: Life as it comes), Anne-Laure Bondoux (France) recounts how the two mismatched sisters have to come to terms with their new roles, and how their relationship further changes when Patty becomes pregnant.
In French. School years: 11-13
Closed event. Registration required under Tel. 0049-30-27 87 86 66

_15.00_children and young adults
Haus der Berliner Festspiele | Seitenbühne

Of Aphids, Snout Beetles and Fighting Ants an encounter with Timothée de Fombelle
After school & at the weekend
A magnificent oak provides the setting of this fast paced adventure novel “Toby Alone” by Timothée de Fombelle. Toby is just one and a half millimetres tall and has a dangerous mission to fulfil! Toby and his people have lived together peacefully in the ancient forest since the beginning of time. Then one day Toby’s father, an ingenious professor, makes a groundbreaking discovery that puts his whole family in extreme danger. Toby is able to flee at the last moment, but he has only one ambition – to free his parents from the deadly intrigues of the tyrannical snout beetle breeder, Jo Mitch. A dangerous expedition through the spectacular world of trees begins…The French author of children’s books will be reading from volumes 1 and 2 of his celebrated “Toby Alone” adventures.
Presented by: Tobias Scheffel. Book signing afterwards.
For children, youth and adults, tree lovers and botanists aged 10 and older. School groups from the 4th/5th form and above are also warmly welcomed.
Entry: 6/5/4 €. (Online-) Ticket presales at www.berlinerfestspiele.de (available immediately) as well as (from 01.09.2008) on Tel. (030) 254 89 100.

_19.00_children and young adults
Philipp-Schaeffer-Bibliothek | Kinderbibliothek

Telling Stories in Pictures. With Thé Tjong-Khing (Indonesia/Netherlands)
Children’s and youth literature for adults
Presented by: Susanne Helene Becker
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung celebrated Thé Tjong-Khing‘s picture book “Picnic with Cake” (2008) as a “great work on a miniature scale“, a work that, like its predecessor “Where is the Cake?” (2006), tells the story - entirely without words - of the frantic hunt for a much-desired cake. Page after page, dog, sheep, cat, goat, bear, pig, hare and badger make their way through the landscape. Meanwhile, each animal experiences his own story, and an exciting paper chase is played out in front of the observer. The Dutch old master of illustration art began his career as a comic book artist and brought out over 150 works, among them the famous “Fox and Hare“ stories (from 1998) as well as illustrations for fairytales and myths (among them “Heroes. Greek myths”, 2006). Thé Tjong-Khing, who taught at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, speaks of the challenge of making people, time, animals, landscapes and stories come alive on the page.
For adults, young people, fans of comics and illustrations, readers of children’s books and art enthusiasts.
Free entry.