Programme Sections http://www.literaturfestival.com daily 1 2010-05-21T00:25:05Z Literature of the World http://www.literaturfestival.com/programm_en/events/literaturen-der-welt-en/literatures-of-the-world The selection for Literatures of the World is made by the festival’s organisers, supported by an international network of curators and friends, and by the jurors, internationally renowned experts in the literature of their regions. The current guest authors of the DAAD’s Berlin Artists’ Programme will also receive invitations. This festival section allows audiences to get to know not only world-renowned authors, but also fascinating new discoveries from the fields of prose and poetry.  

Participants of the "Literatures of the World" section:

2011

The following authors have confirmed their attendance at the 11th ilb:

Constantin Abaluta, Rumänien
Kader Abdolah, Iran/ Niederlande
Mohammed Achaari, Marokko
Raja Alem, Saudi-Arabien
Swetlana Alexijewitsch, Weissrussland (DAAD)
Sara Al Jarwan, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Khulood al-Mualla, Vereinigte Arabische Emirate
Ken Babstock, Kanada (DAAD)
Andrzej Bart, Polen
Tahar Ben Jelloun, Marokko / Frankreich
Louis de Bernières, Großbritannien
Marica Bodrožić, Deutschland / Kroatien
A. S. Byatt, Großbritannien
Bernardo Carvalho, Brasilien (DAAD)
Javier Cercas, Spanien
Patrick Chamoiseau, Martinique
Amir Hassan Cheheltan, Iran (Premiere)
Chirikure Chirikure, Zimbabwe (DAAD)
Patricia Cornwell, USA
Ludwig Fels, Deutschland
Rawi Hage, Kanada / Libanon (DAAD)
Paul Harding, USA
Adam Haslett, USA
Günter Herburger, Deutschland
Peter Stephan Jungk, Österreich / Frankreich
(Michael Krüger, Deutschland) Teilnahme unsicher
Wolfgang Kubin, Deutschland
Andrej Kurkow, Ukraine
Antonio Muñoz Molina, Spanien
Melinda Nadj Abonji, Ungarn/Schweiz
Piotr Paziński, Polen
András Petöcz, Ungarn
DBC Pierre, Australien/ Irland
Vera Polozkova, Russland
Kathy Reichs, USA
Tomasz Różycki, Polen
Jaroslav Rudiš, Tschechien
Boualem Sansal, Algerien
Michail Schischkin, Russland/ Schweiz
Raoul Schrott, Österreich
Luis Sepúlveda, Chile
Gary Shteyngart, USA
Steinunn Sigurðardottir, Island
Miriam Toews, Kanada
Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir, Island
Ilija Trojanow, Bulgarien / Österreich (Premiere)
Mario Vargas Llosa, Peru
Irvine Welsh, Schottland
Tomáš Zmeškal, Tschechien

2010

Aharon Appelfeld, Israel [Bio]
Marçal Aquino, Brazil [Bio]
Dieter Bachmann, Switzerland [Bio]
Vladislav Bajac, Serbia, nominated by Alberto Manguel
Israel Bar-Kohav, Israel
Priya Basil, Great Britain
Ken Bruen, Ireland
Ann Cotten, USA/ Germany
Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Haiti/ France
Rana Dasgupta, UK/ India [Bio]
Dietmar Dath, Germany
Tishani Doshi, India [Bio]
Mahmud Doulatabadi, Iran
Jennifer Egan, USA [Bio], nominated by Pankaj Mishra
Nuruddin Farah, Somalia [Bio]
Joshua Ferris, USA [Bio]
Franzobel, Austria [Bio]
Assaf Gavron, Israel [Bio]
Elizabeth Gilbert, USA
Juan Goytisolo, Spain [Bio]
Durs Grünbein, Germany
Carla Guelfenbein, Chile
Kevin Hart, Australia, nominated by Robert Gray
Anjum Hasan, India, nominated by Pankaj Mishra
Alois Hotschnig, Austria [Bio], nominated by Ilija Trojanow
Anilda Ibrahimi, Italy/Albania
Sabrina Janesch, Germany
Javad Khavari, Afghanistan, nominated by Atiq Rahimi
Wladimir Kaminer, Germany/ Russia [Bio]
Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Senegal, nominated by Fatou Diome
Sema Kaygusuz, Turkey
Esther Kinsky, Germany
Ayse Kulin, Turkey
Amara Lakhous, Italy/Albania
Liao Yiwu, China [Bio]
Dea Loher, Germany
Nicol Ljubic, Germany
Alberto Manguel, Canada / France
Yann Martel, Canada
Eva Menasse, Germany
Philipp Meyer, USA
Sudabeh Mohafez, Germany, nominated by Ilija Trojanow
Mohammad Hussain Mohammadi, Afghanistan, nominated by Atiq Rahimi
Hassouna Mosbahi, Tunisia
Dennis O’Driscoll, Ireland,nominated by Robert Gray
Sofi Oksanen, Finland
José F. A. Oliver, Germany [Bio]
Alexander Osang, Germany
Alan Pauls, Argentina
Martin Pollack, Austria
Moritz Rinke, Germany
José Saramago, Portugal
Hans Joachim Schädlich, Germany
Jochen Schmidt, Germany
Igiaba Scego, Italy
Leanne Shapton, Canada [Bio]
Samuel Shimon, Great Britain/ Iraq [Bio]
Sjón, Iceland [Bio]
Takis Theodoropoulos, Greece, nominated by Alberto Manguel
Nguyen Huy Thiep, Vietnam
Eliot Weinberger, USA [Bio]

Previous Participants of the "Literatures of the World" section:

2009

Abbas Beydoun (Lebanon) nominated
Yussef Bazzi
Tomás Eloy Martínez (Argentina) nominated
Andrés Neuman
Katarina Frostenson (Sweden) nominated
Göran Sonnevi und Marie Darrieussecq
Alberto Manguel (Canada/France) nominated
Aleksandar Hemon und Leila Sebbar
Boualem Sansal (Algeria) nominated
Maïssa Bey und Yvon Le Men
Yoko Tawada (Japan) nominated
Christine Montalbetti und Joy Harjo
Ilija Trojanow (Bulgaria/D) nominated
Youssouf Amine Elalamy und Erasmus Schöfer

2008

Chris Abani (Nigeria/USA) nominated
Helon Habila  and Ivan Vladislavić
Yury Andrukhovych (Ukraine) nominated
Natalka Snyadanko and Vasyl Makhno
Robert Gray (Australia) nominated
Don Paterson and Tim Liardet
László Krasznahorkai (Hungary) nominated
Mihály Víg and Ion Grigorescu
Katja Lange-Müller (Germany) nominated
Irina Liebmann and Ulrich Peltzer
Alberto Manguel (Canada/France) nominated
Marina Warner and Milton Hatoum
Abdourahman A. Waberi (Djibouti/France) nominated
Dinaw Mengestu and Laila Lalami

2007

Hanan al-Shaykh (Lebanon/UK) nominated
Shusha Guppy and Abdel Moneim Ramadan
Juri Andrukhovych (Ukraine) nominated
Andrij Bondar and Natasza Goerke
Namita Gokhale (India) nominated
Shamsur Rahman Faruqi and Nayantara Sahgal
Philip Jeyaretnam (Singapore) nominated
Tash Aw and lê thi diem thúy
László Krasznahorkai (Hungary) nominated
Szilárd Borbély and Cosmin Manolache
Alberto Manguel (Canada/France) nominated
Guillermo Arriaga Jordan and Jane Urquhart
Herta Müller (Germany) nominated
Sigitas Parulskis and Dan Sociu
Charles Simic (USA) nominated
Jorie Graham and Paul Muldoon
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) nominated
Iván Thays and Piedad Bonnett
Abdourahman Waberi (Djibouti/France) nominated
Jean Rouaud and Asli Erdogan
Adam Zagajewski (Poland) nominated
Tony Hoagland and Marie Lundquist

2006

Hanan al-Shaykh (Lebanon/UK) nominated
Iman Humaidan and Aamer Hussein
Jon Fosse (Norway) nominated
Paal-Helge Haugen and Dag Solstad
Philip Jeyaretnam (Singapore) nominated
Rattawut Lapcharoensap and Wei Hui
László Krasznahorkai (Hungary) nominated
Ted Milton and Hiroshi Sakagami
Alberto Manguel (Canada/France) nominated
Joan Lingard and Anne Michaels
Iris Radisch (Germany) nominated
Attila Bartis and Jáchym Topol
Charles Simic (USA) nominated
Deborah Eisenberg and James Tate
Shashi Tharoor (India) nominated
Vikram Chandra and Manil Suri
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) nominated
Jorge Eduardo Benavides and Patricia de Souza
Abdourahman A. Waberi (Djibouti/France) nominated
Salim Bachi and Helon Habila
Adam Zagajewski (Poland) nominated
Jerzy Kronhold and Tomasz Różycki

2005

Jon Fosse (Norway) nominated
Katarina Frostenson, Rolf Sagen, Søren Ulrik Thomsen
Philip Jeyaretnam (Singapore) nominated
Rofel G. Brion, Vyvyane Loh, Huzir Sulaiman
Antjie Krog (South Africa) nominated
Mia Couto, Ingrid de Kok, Gcina Mhlophe
Alberto Manguel (Canada/France) nominated
Barry Lopez, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Sergio Pitol
Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia/France) nominated
Vénus Khoury-Ghata, Antoine Raybaud, Ryoko Sekiguchi
Iris Radisch (Germany) nominated
Thomas Kapielski, Helga M. Novak, Linn Ullmann
Charles Simic (USA) nominated
Russell Banks, Francine Prose, Mark Strand
Shashi Tharoor (India) nominated
Shauna Singh Baldwin, Namita Gokhale, K. Satchidanandan
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) nominated
Soledad Alvarez, Arturo Fontaine, Giovanna Pollarolo
Adam Zagajewski (Poland) nominated
Ellen Hinsey, Edward Hirsch, Petr Král

2004

Philip Jeyaretnam (Singapore) nominated
Alfian Bin Sa'at, K.S. Maniam, Duong Thu Huong
Alberto Manguel (Canada/France) nominated
Javier Cercas, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Hassan Daoud
Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia) nominated
Alberto Mussa, Nabil Naoum, Bernard Noël
Martin Mooj (Netherlands) nominated
Bernlef, Adrian Mitchell, Hagar Peeters
Iris Radisch (Germany) nominated
David Albahari, Juri Andruchowytsch, Susanne Riedel
Ilma Rakusa (Switzerland) nominated
Fuad Rifka, Elena Schwarz, Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Véronique Tadjo (Ivory Coast/South Africa) nominated
Tanella Boni, Hamidou Dia, Zakes Mda
Shashi Tharoor (India) nominated
Joseph Olshan, Alka Saraogi, M.T. Vasudevan Nair
Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru) nominated
Andrés Barba, Alonso Cueto, Alvaro Enrigue
Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe) nominated
Chris Abani, Aritha van Herk, Leone Ross
Eliot Weinberger (USA) nominated
Taha Muhammad Ali, Semezdin Mehmedinović, Aharon Shabtai

2003

Juan Gustavo Cobo Borda (Colombia) nominated
Adolfo Castañón, Eduardo Chirinos, Darío Jaramillo Agudelo
Alberto Manguel (Canada/France) nominated
Anita Desai, Jabbar Yassin Hussin, Susan Swan
Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia/France) nominated
Mohammed Bennis, Lorand Gaspar, José María Ridao
Martin Mooj (Netherlands) nominated
Remco Campert, Clara Janés, Yôko Ogawa
Ljudmila Petruschewskaja (Russia) nominated
Windows MediaOlga Schamborant, Viktorija Tokarjewa, Tatjana Tolstaja
Ilma Rakusa (Switzerland) nominated
Gennadij Ajgi, László Darvasi, Ryszard Krynicki
Véronique Tadjo (Ivory Coast/South Africa) nominated
Fatou Keïta, Leïla Marouane, Lewis Nkosi
Shashi Tharoor (India) nominated
Romesh Gunesekera, Lee Siegel, O.V. Vijayan
Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe) nominated
Achmat Dangor, Witi Ihimaera, José Manuel Prieto
Eliot Weinberger (USA) nominated
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, Semezdin Mehmedinović, Alberto Ruy Sánchez
Herbert Wiesner (Germany) nominated
László Márton, Michèle Métail, Dieter Wellershoff

2002

Bei Dao (China/USA) nominated
Ouyang Jianghe, Yu Hua, Zhang Zao
Tedi López Mills (Mexico) nominated
Tomás Segovia, Antonio Cisneros, Eduardo Lizalde
Alberto Manguel (Canada/France) nominated
Nélida Piñon, Liliana Heker, Eduardo Berti
Abdelwahab Meddeb (Tunisia/France) nominated
Gôzô Yoshimasu, Michel Deguy, Salah Stétié
Martin Mooj (Netherlands) nominated
Breyten Breytenbach, Eddy van Vliet, Tahar Ben Jelloun
Ilma Rakusa (Switzerland) nominated
Petr Borkovec, László Krasznahorkai, Drago Jančar
Véronique Tadjo (Ivory Coast/South Africa) nominated
Boniface Mongo-Mboussa, Bessora, Alain Mabanckou
John Tranter (Australia) nominated
Anne Waldman, Alan Duff, Tom Raworth
Eliot Weinberger (USA) nominated
Luljeta Lleshanaku, Forrest Gander, Yoel Hoffmann
Herbert Wiesner (Germany) nominated
Robert Bober, Paul Nizon, Ulrich Peltzer
Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe) nominated
Farida Karodia, Jamal Mahjoub, Pauline Melville

2001

Dieter Bachmann (Switzerland) nominated
Inger Christensen, Antonio Tabucchi, Leo Tuor
Martin Mooj (Netherlands) nominated
Tahar Ben Jelloun, Agus R. Sarjono, James Fenton
Dilip Chitre (India) nominated
Namdeo Dhasal, Rita Dove, Daniel Weissbort
Pura Lopez Colomé (Mexico) nominated
José Emilo Pacheco, Enrique Fierro, Hugo Gola
Ilma Rakusa (Switzerland) nominated
Peter Esterhazy, Ales Rasanau, Ljudmila Ulitzkaja
Kazuo Shiraishi (Japan) nominated
Günter Kunert, Mazisi Kunene, Jehuda Amichai
Véronique Tadjo (Ivory Coast/South Africa) nominated
Ken Bugul, Boris Boubacar Diop, Abdourahman A. Waberi
John Tranter (Australia) nominated
Pamela Brown, Michele Leggott, Rodney Hall
Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe) nominated
Chenjerai Hove, Goretti Kyomuhendo, Antije Krog
Eliot Weinberger (USA) nominated
Bei Dao, Michael Palmer, Lydia Davis

]]> No publisher praktikant2 2010-06-28T01:15:00Z Seite / Kollektion Reflections http://www.literaturfestival.com/programm_en/events/reflections-en/refelctions-en In the section Reflections authors, journalists and international experts from various specialist areas will all be voicing their opinions in discussions and talks on current political, social and cultural topics from Eastern Europe. Many of the festival’s authors will be provided an additional podium here in order to answer any questions.  

Participants of the "Reflections" programme:

2011

The following authors have confirmed their attendance at the 11th ilb:

Pius Alibek, Irak / Spanien
Jakob Augstein, Deutschland
Patrick Bahners, Deutschland
Caco Barcellos, Brasilien
Azouz Begag, Frankreich
Jung Chang, China / Großbritannien
György Dalos, Ungarn / Deutschland
Jeanette Erazo-Heufelder, Deutschland / Ecuador
Philip Grassmann, Deutschland
Robert Irwin, Großbritannien
Marie Luise Knott, Deutschland
Aiman Mazyek, Deutschland
Włodzimierz Nowak, Polen
Peter Raue, Deutschland
Flemming Rose, Dänemark
Åsne Seierstad, Norwegen
Jordi Soler, Mexiko

 

Previous participants of the "Reflections" programme:

2010

Omar Akbar,Lascha Bakradse, Hassan Blasim, Edgardo Buscaglia, Joe Conzo, Beqë Cufaj, György Dalos, Jose Antonio Encinas Marroquin, Oxana Evdokimova, Ghazi Gheblawi, Bettina Gräf, Drago Jančar, Viktor Jerofejew, Basil Kerski, Michael Kimmelman, Gerd Koenen, András Kovács, Gudrun Krämer, Adam Krzeminski, Ekkehard Maaß, Sonja Margolina, Élmer Mendoza, Christine M. Merkel, Bara Prochazkova, Katharina Raabe, Sarah Reinke, Arsenij Roginskij, Manfred Sapper, Thilo Sarrazin, Peter Schneider, Anna Schor-Tschudnowskaja, Wolfram Schrettl, Francesca Sforza, Jacob Skovgaard-Petersen, Ganna Snigur-Grabovska, Andrei Sorokin, Peer Steinbrück, Tanja Stupar-Trifunović, Sudanese Thinker, Sreten Ugričić,

Symposium „Enlightenment vs. Concealment. Secret Police, Artists and the Examination and Reappraisal of the Communist Dictatorships“

Jozef Banáš, Muriel Blaive, Nicolae Dabija, Alexander Daniel, †  Edvard Kocbek, Georgi Konstantinow, Jasna Koteska, † Jovan Koteski, Gustáv Murín, Igor Omerza, Marius Oprea, Imbi Paju, Borka Pavićević, Petr Placák, Jewhen Swerstjuk, Ilija Trojanow, Krisztián Ungváry, Wolodymyr Wjatrowytsch, Kazimierz Wóycicki,

2009

Azouz Begag, Larissa Bender, Raffaele Cantone, Hartmut Fähndrich, Alma Guillermoprieto, Hassan Hammad, Sonja Hegasy, Rolf Hosfeld, Adel Karasholi, Necla Kelek, Hassan Khader, Abbas Khider, Ingo Metzmacher, Margaret Obank, Günther Orth, Andreas Pflitsch, Jürgen Roth, Alice Schwarzer, Samuel Shimon, Marie-Claude Souaid-Hesse, Suleman Taufiq, AngelaTschorsnig , Gerald Uhlig-Romero, Najem Wali, Stefan Weidner, François Zabbal

2008

Omar Akbar,  Dieter Bachmann, Güner Yasemin Balci, Azouz Begag, Klaus Brückner, Mario Calabresi, Bora Ćosić, Gwynne Dyer, Andreas Eckert, Uschi Eid, Carolin Emcke, Gonzalo Fernández Parrilla, Elisabeth Hack, Rolf Hosfeld, Leonie Joubert, Uazuvara Ewald Katjivena, Necla Kelek, Daniel Kempken, Grada Kilomba, Geert Mak, Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien, Sanusha Naidu, Rüdiger Safranski, Rickard F. Sandell, James Shikwati, Helmut Strizek, Ibrahima Thioub, Tzvetan Todorov, Elena Tregubova, Joachim Zeller

2007

Omar Akbar, Tariq Ali, Seyran Ateş, Gerhart Rudolf Baum, Ian Buruma, Oral Çalişlar, Karin Karakasli, Gerd Koenen, Hatzida Mehmedinovic, Fatema Mernissi, Andrej Nekrasow, Hasan Nuhanovic, Cem Özdemir, Tariq Ramadan, Thant Myint-U

2006

Wolfgang Ernst, Andreas Fulda, Roland S. Kamzelak, Necla Kelek, Leung Ping-Kwan, Stanley Lubman, Sohrab Mahdavi, Klaus Mühlhahn, Julien Pain, Jens Redmer, Beate Reifenscheid, Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Tilman Spengler, Hans Uszkoreit

2005

Robert A. Amsterdam, Apti Bisultanov, Mihran Dabag, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Jacob Heilbrunn, Rolf Hosfeld,  Viktor Jerofejew, Adam Krzeminski, Ekkehard Maaß, Grigori M. Pasko, Andrei A. Piontkowski, Irina Prochorowa, Eberhard Rathgeb, Alexander Ryklin, Irina Scherbakowa, Lilia Schewzowa, Hans-Henning Schröder, Raf S. Shakirov, Elfie Siegl

2004

Mihran Dabag, Roméo Dallaire, Carla del Ponte, Alexander Demandt, Peter Eigen, Michel Friedman, Jörg Friedrich, Hannes Heer, Hans-Peter Kaul, Thomas Macho, Salah Negm, Rupert Neudeck, John Prendergast, Hazem Sagieh, Karl Schlögel, Hani Shukrallah, Natan Sznaider, Christian Tomuschat, Michael Warschawski, Ian Williams

2003

Tariq Ali, Amal al-Jubouri, Giovanni Bachelet, Hans Christoph Buch, Edoardo Ferrario, Paolo Flores d'Arcais, Ralf Fücks, Paul Ginsborg, Walter Haubrich, Richard Herzinger, Reinhard Hesse, Laennec Hurbon, Huber Matos, Herfried Münkler, Adolf Muschg, Iván de la Nuez, Rüdiger Safranski, Karl Schlögel, Richard Wagner, Uwe Wesel, Arno Widmann, Jean Ziegler

2002

Tariq Ali, Rainer Büren, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Manfred Flügge, Adel Karasholi, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Faraj Sarkohi, Winfried F. Schoeller, Johano Strasser, Thu Hien Vu

]]> No publisher praktikant2 2010-06-03T12:20:00Z Seite / Kollektion International Children's and Youth Literature http://www.literaturfestival.com/programm_en/events/int.-kjl/int.-kjl In the International Children’s and Youth Literature section authors and illustrators from all over the world will be presenting their texts and illustrations in readings, workshops, school projects and talks. The aim of this part of the festival is to showcase a representative cross-section of high quality children’s and youth literature in different languages – from picture books to young children’s books, from graphic novels/comics to literature for young adults – in events both inside and outside schools, and to leave a lasting impression and awareness of the wider world in all its diversity, otherness and normality, while also providing the chance see what was previously known from a fresh perspective.

Here you can find all information about the "International Children's and Youth Literature" section.

]]> No publisher praktikant2 2010-06-03T00:30:00Z Seite / Kollektion Speak, Memory http://www.literaturfestival.com/programm_en/events/speak-memory/speak-memory In the Speak, Memory festival section, German and international authors of the past decades and centuries – including the famous, the obscure and the forgotten - will be remembered in a combination of readings and talks. This year, some of the most important Eastern European authors will be presented.

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

]]> No publisher praktikant2 2010-05-29T13:15:00Z Seite / Kollektion Specials http://www.literaturfestival.com/programm_en/events/specials-en/specials-en The Specials section of the programme includes the festival’s smaller, special events: Scritture Giovani – now in its tenth year – is a cooperative project with two of the most important literary festivals in Europe: the “Festivaletteratura Mantova” and the “Guardian Hay Festival”, and serves to promote Europe’s younger authors. For 2011 Scritture Giovani has hunted out four young authors who have written short stories in different languages about the predefined topic “names”. These texts will be released in a trilingual edition in English, German and Italian. An evening with New German Voices is in the programme for the fourth time, introducing the most talented young German-speaking authors, who we think will enjoy international success. The Readings in Prisons and Libraries as well as the International SLAM! Revue are obligatory. 2011

The Following authors have confirmed their attendance at the 11th ilb:

 

Graphic Novel


Blexbolex (Bernard Granger), Frankreich
Ángel de la Calle, Spanien
Alexandru Ciubotariu, Rumänien
Fabian Göranson, Schweden
Kalle Hakkola, Finnland
Tomasz Leśniak, Polen
Lorenzo Mattotti, Italien
Alecos Papadatos, Griechenland
Rafał Skarżycki, Polen
Barbara Yelin, Deutschland

 

International Slam! Revue

Derrick Brown, USA
Laurin Buser, Schweiz
Oskar Hanska, Schweden
Lars Ruppel, Deutschland
Paula Varjack, Großbritannien



New German Voices


Antonia Baum, Deutschland
Tino Hanekamp, Deutschland

 

Scritture Giovanni


Susanne Heinrich, Deutschland
Anna Lewis, Wales (UK)
Kallia Papadaki, Griechenland
Paolo Piccirillo, Italien

 

 

New Playwriters from Europe


Martin Algus, Estland
Davide Carnevali, Italien
Lucy Kirkwood, Großbritannien
Maria Manolescu, Rumänien
Roman Sikora, Tschechien
Esteve Soler, Spanien



Meeting of young Authors


Yevgeniy Breyger, Ukraine / Deutschland
Charlotte Busch, Deutschland
Olga Galicka, Deutschland
Marie Michael, Deutschland
Rick Reuther, Deutschland
Max Wallenhorst, Deutschland



Conzert


Aga Zaryan, Polen



And


Azouz Begag, Frankreich
Haralampi G. Oroschakoff, Deutschland / Österreich

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