Previous Participants of the "Speak, Memory" section:
2010
Roland Schäfer read Varoslav Hasek "The Party of Moderate Progress Within the Bounds Of the Law".
Matthias Scherwenika read Tadeusz Borowski "We Were in Auschwitz".
Matthias Scherwenika read Leonid Dobycin "The town of N".
Roland Schäfer read Nikolai Gogol "The Inspector-General".
Roland Schäfer read Iwan Bunin "The Dark Alleys".
Simone Kabst read Milos Crnjanski "Lyrics of Ithaca".
Regina Gisberz read Stanislaw Lem "Solaris".
Frank Arnold read Witold Gombrowicz "Pornografia".
2009
Matthias Scherwenikas read Rifa'a at Tahtawi „A muslim discovers Europe“
Roland Schäfer read Friedrich Rückert, „The clown and his daughter“
Elizabeth Blonzen read Halide Edip Adivar, „The daughter of the shade gambler”
Alexandra Kamp read Henry Miller, „Sexus“
Friedhelm Ptok read and Klaus Doderer and Hans Joachim Golberg spoke about James Krüss
Adel Karasholi, Hassan Khader, Hala Mohammad, Amjad Nasser, Fatima Naoot and Joachim Sartorius read Mahmoud Darwish
Nadja Schulz-Berlinghoff and Frank Arnold read Voltaire, „Mahomet“
Simone Kabst read Tschingis Aitmatov, „Dshamiljia“
Burghart Klaußner read songs about heroes, gardens and wine in Arabic literature
Roland Schäfer read Tayeb Salih, „season of migration to the horth“
Susanna Kraus read Sargon Boulos, poetry
Friedhelm Ptok read Paul Scheerbart, „The death of the Barmakids“.
Roland Schäfer read Denis Diderot, from the „The Encyclopedie“
Matthias Scherwenikas read Panait Istrati, „Kyra Kyralina“
Roland Schäfer read Franz Werfel, „The fourty Days of Musa Dagh“ and Victor Gardon, „The font of the past”.
2008
Jutta Hoffmann and Marie-Luce Bonfanti read Einar Schleef, "Gertrud"
Friedhelm Ptok read Bruno Schulz, "The Cinammon Shops"
Friedhelm Ptok read Francesco Petrarca, "Africa"
Max Volkert Martens read Ken Saro-Wiwa, "Sozaboy"
Astrid Gorvin read Aimé Césaire, "A Season in the Congo. A play about Patrice Lumumba and Return to My Native Land"
Frank Arnold read Nagib Machfus, "Children of Gebelawi"
Floriane Daniel read Amadou Hamâté Bâ, "The Strange Destiny of Wangrin"
Hartmut Diekmann presented the film "Ceddo" by Ousman Sembene
Tatiana Nekrasov read Yvonne Vera, "Souls in Exile"
Astrid Gorvin read Dambudzo Marechera, "The House of Hunger"
Frank Arnold, Gerolamo Fancellu and Christan Steyer read Cesare Pavese, "Dialogues with Leucó", "The Moon and the Bonfires" and "The Burning Brand"
Astrid Gorvin read Hubert Fichte
Simone Kabst read Louis Ferdinand Céline, "North and Congo"
Frank Arnold read Joseph Conrad, "Heart of Darkness"
Susanna Kraus read Friedrich Gorenstein, "Psalm"
2007
Hanns Zischler read Luis Borges
Blanche Kommerell read Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Matthias Scherwenikas read Peter Altenberg
Fifty actors read Thomas Bernhard
Gabrielle Pfeiffer documtented the life of Ryszard Kapuscinski, "A Poet on the Frontline"
Matthias Scherwenikas read César Vallejo
Frank Arnold read Octavio Paz
Roland Schäfer read Blaise Cendrars
Simone Kabst read Joris Karl Huysmans
Frank Arnold read Juan Carlos Onetti
Peter Stein read Anton Tschechow
Astrid Gorvin read Theodor Lessing
Friedhelm Ptok read Bohumil Hrabal
Juliane Köhler read Friedrich Wolf
Jane Birkin read Serge Gainsbourg und Anno Birkin
2006
Astrid Gorvin read Voltaire
Matthias Scherwenikas read Claude Simon
Friedhelm Ptok read Franz Fanon and Victor Segalen
Roland Schäfer read Pierre de Ronsard
Friedhelm Ptok and Jean-Claude Crespy read Jean de Lery and Michel de Montaigne
Matthias Scherwenikas read Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Jean-Claude Crespy read Marquis de Sade
Tamara Stern read Léopold Sédar Senghor
Astrid Gorvin read Arthur Rimbaud
Susanne Kraus read Marguerite Duras
Roland Schäfer read Henri Michaux
Frank Arnold read Samuel Beckett
Susanna Kraus read Charles Baudelaire and Emmanuel Levinas
2005
Hans Magnus Enzensberger read Wallace Stevens
Frank Arnold read Herman Melville
Susanna Kraus read Mark Twain
Frank Arnold read Ambrose Bierce
Andrew Sean Greer read Vladimir Nabokov
Friedhelm Ptok read Curzio Malaparte
Margarita Broich, Carolin Emcke, Michael Krüger, Ivan Nagel and Joachim Sartorius read Susan Sonntag
Susanna Kraus read Harriet Beecher-Stowe
Frank Arnold read Eugen Gottlob Winkler
Roland Schäfer read Alberto Savinio
Astrid Gorvin read Robert Walser
Burghart Klausner read Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
2004
Roland Schäfer read Thomas Bernhard
Burghart Klausner read Jonathan Swift
Grischa Hube read Emily Dickinson
Friedhelm Ptok read Antonio Machado
Gustav Peter Wöhler read Søren Kierkegaard
Peter Zwey spoke on Karl Kraus
Friedhelm Ptok read Bruno Schulz
Roland Schäfer read Giacomo Leopardi
Herbert Fritsch read Michel de Montaigne
Katharina Thalbach read Natalia Ginzburg
2003
Roland Schäfer read Ovid
Roland Schäfer read Fernando Pessoa
Tina Engel read Vittoria Colonna
Dieter E. Sattler spoke on Hölderin
Friedhelm Ptok read Siegfried Jacobsohn
Frank Arnold read Sigmund Freud
Friedhelm Ptok read Vladimir Nabokov
Blanche Kommerell read letter by Abaelard and Héloise
Vadim Glowna read Jürgen von der Wense
Dieter E. Sattler spoke on the Bremen Bible
