Subject to alterations. The complete program will be published on 24 August 2016.
PRE-FESTIVAL EVENTS
05 09 MONDAY 05.09.16 20:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD | PREMIERE KINO INTERNATIONAL Eugen Ruge’s [Germany] »Follower«: perpetuation of the family history of his first novel in a fictitious future Moderator: Thomas Böhm Pre-sale via Kino INTERNATIONAL: 030 247 560 11
06 09 TUESDAY
18:30 SPECIALS_EXHIBITION | VERNISSAGE INSTITUT FRANÇAIS Tête à tête – Head to Head: German and French illustrators between satire and literature Free admission
19:00 SPECIALS_ISLAMISM HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Boualem Sansal [Algeria] and Dr. Norbert Lammert [Germany] on the novel »2084: La Fin du Monde« (2084: The End of the World) Moderator: Vincent von Wroblewsky
21:00 SPECIALS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage THE POETRY PROJECT – Poems by young refugees: With Ali Ahmadi [Afghanistan], Ghani Ataei [Afghanistan], Mahdi Hashemi [Afghanistan], Kahel Kaschmiri [Afghanistan], Mohamad Mashgdost [Iran], Samilullah Rassouli [Afghanistan], Shah Zamir Hataki [Afghanistan] and Yasser Niksada [Afghanistan] Moderator: Susanne Koelbl Speakers: Julia Huston, Aarash D. Spanta and Mira Wichers Translation: Aarash D. Spanta Exhibition concept: rottkay ThePoetryProject.de Exhibition of the poems at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele_Ticket Hall
07 09 WEDNESDAY
8:00–17:00 SPECIALS BERLIN »Berlin reads« on Democracy without Populism
18:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD_OPENING HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Main Stage 16th ilb opening night: César Aira [Argentina] Music: »16 Strings« – featuring Marija Mücke [Violin], Ksenija Zecevic [Violin], Viktor Batki [Viola] and Claudia Benker [Violoncello] – play »Divorce« composed by Fazil Say
20:00 SPECIALS_EXHIBITION | VERNISSAGE HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby Ali Ghandtschi [Iran/Germany] and Mark Giannori [Italy/Germany]: »Der Koffer – walizka« (The Suitcase) – A literary photography project
20:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Colm Tóibín’s [Ireland/USA] »Nora Webster«: the restrained portrait of a woman in mourning on a journey of self-discovery Moderator: Paul Ingendaay Speaker: Tom Wlaschiha
21:00 SPECIALS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Ticket Hall Worldwide Reading for Democracy without Populism Moderator: Priya Basil Reading in German, event in English Free admission
08 09 THURSDAY
17:00 SPECIALS_LITERATURE BEHIND BARS Senthuran Varatharajah [Sri Lanka/Germany] reads from »Vor der Zunahme der Zeichen« (Before the Signs Mount Up) Non-public event
19:00 REFLECTIONS SCHAUBÜHNE »Against Elections. Why Voting isn’t Democratic« – David Van Reybrouck [Belgium] makes a case for drawing lots over holding elections Moderator: Gregor Dotzauer
19:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HEIMATHAFEN NEUKÖLLN César Aira’s [Argentina] »Duchamp in Mexico« develops a theory about modern art Speaker: Tom Wlaschiha
19:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD PRATER Laurie Penny [Great Britain] on »Making Babies and Other Stories« Moderator: Amber Qureshi This event is in English
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD INSTITUT FRANÇAIS Maylis de Kerangal’s [France] »Mend the Living« – A heart-rending tale about the co-existence of disparate experiences involving organ donation Moderator: Vincent von Wroblewsky Speaker: Tatiana Nekrasov
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HEIMATHAFEN NEUKÖLLN »Vom Ende der Einsamkeit« (From the End of Solitude) – Benedict Wells’ [Germany] coming-of-age novel on overcoming loss Moderator: Thorsten Dönges
21:00 SPEAK, MEMORY PRATER »All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James« – Colm Tóibín [Ireland/USA] on the American novelist Moderator: Bernhard Robben Speaker: Frank Arnold
09 09 FRIDAY
19:00 SPECIALS HEIMATHAFEN NEUKÖLLN Rebellious Women: Deborah Feldman [USA/Germany], Petina Gappah [Zimbabwe/France] and Taslima Nasrin [Bangladesh/USA] Moderator: Gabriele von Arnim This event is in English
19:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD PRATER This year’s Man Booker International Prize Winner Han Kang [South Korea] reads from »The Vegetarian«
19:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD INSTITUT FRANÇAIS Samir Kacimi [Algeria] surrealistically interweaves reality with dreams in his novel »Al-Halim« Moderator: Hussain Al-Mozany Speaker: Burghart Klaußner
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD SCHAUBÜHNE Stella Gaitano [Southern Sudan] and Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin [Sudan/Austria] discuss belonging, war, displacement and the central role of language Moderator: Flora Veit-Wild Speaker: Matthias Scherwenikas
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD SCHWARTZSCHE VILLA The playwright Meriam Bousselmi [Tunisia] explores the parameters of human freedom Speaker: Kathleen Gallego-Zapata
19:30 SPECIALS_POETRY NIGHT I LITERATURHAUS_Main Salon Yitzhak Laor [Israel], Nikola Madzirov [Macedonia] and Håkon Øvreås [Norway] Moderator: Silke Behl Speaker: Frank Arnold
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD PRATER In Wytske Versteeg’s [Netherlands] »Boy« a mother is determined to find out the reason her adoptive son died Moderator: Shelly Kupferberg Speaker: Franziska Herrmann
21:00 SPECIALS INSTITUT FRANÇAIS Meriam Bousselmi [Tunisia] – »All seasons are good for writing«: about the act of writing as subjected to political circumstances
21:00 SPECIALS HEIMATHAFEN NEUKÖLLN Laurie Penny [Great Britain] on feminism today Moderator: Amber Qureshi This event is in English
10 09 SATURDAY
16:30 REFLECTIONS LITERATURHAUS_Main Salon The lawyer and Secretary General of the ECCHR Wolfgang Kaleck [Germany] provides insight into the advocacy work of a human rights activist in »Unternehmen vor Gericht. Globale Kämpfe für Menschenrechte« (Businesses in Court. The Global Fight for Human Rights)
16:30 SPECIALS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Presentation of »Refugees Worldwide«, a new project of the Peter-Weiss- Stiftung für Kunst und Politik (Peter-Weiss-Foundation for Arts and Politics) Introduction: Ulrich Schreiber and Luisa Donnerberg In cooperation with the Jan Michalski Foundation Free admission
18:00 REFLECTIONS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage In »The New Odyssey« Patrick Kingsley [Great Britain] follows refugee movements through Europe and the whole world Moderator: Priya Basil This event is in English
18:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD LITERATURHAUS_Main Salon Bora Ćosić [Serbia] reads from »Konsul in Belgrad« (Consul in Belgrade) Moderation: Paul Ingendaay Speaker: Frank Arnold
19:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD SCHWARTZSCHE VILLA In Julia Kissina’s [Ukraine/Germany] »Elephantinas Moskauer Jahre« (Elephantina’s Moscow Years) a young woman follows her idol into Moscow’s catacombs Moderator: György Dalos
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage In Mathias Énard’s [France/Spain] »Boussole« (Compass) an ageing Viennese musicologist indulges his oriental obsessions Sprecher: Christian Brückner
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby Neel Mukherjee’s [India/Great Britain] »The Lives of Others« tells of the dissolution of a family and dissects the soul of a nation Moderator: Priya Basil Speaker: Denis Abrahams Reading in German, conversation in English
19:30 SPECIALS_ISLAMISM HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage The expert on islamic terrorism, Marc Trévidic [France] on a family, freedom, art and fanaticism: »Ahlam oder der Traum von Freiheit« (Ahlam, or the Dream of Freedom) Speaker: Matthias Scherwenikas
19:30 SPECIALS CORNER OF KURFÜRSTENDAMM_JOACHIMSTHALER STRASSE Hipster Höxter and the Prince of Thebes – An audio walk with female Jewish artists of 1920s Berlin Free admission
19:30 SPECIALS_POETRY NIGHT II LITERATURHAUS_Main Salon Hinemoana Baker [New Zealand], Imtiaz Dharker [Pakistan/Great Britain] and Arvind Krishna Mehrotra [India] Moderator: Silke Behl Speaker: Nina West
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD | PREMIERE HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Shumona Sinha’s [India/France] »Calcutta« tells of West Bengal’s brutal political past Moderator: Michi Strausfeld
21:00 REFLECTIONS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage »A Very Expensive Poison: the Definitive Story of the Murder of Litvinenko«: Luke Harding’s [Great Britain] inside story on the life and assassination of the former intelligence officer Moderator: Philip Grassmann
21:00 SPECIALS_ISLAMISM HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage In »Ich bleibe eine Tochter des Lichts« (I Remain a Daughter of Light) Jan Ilhan Kizilhan [Turkey/Germany] follows a young Yezidi woman’s walk through hell as a slave of ISIS Moderator: Arno Widmann
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD LITERATURHAUS_Main Salon In »Archiv der toten Seelen« (Archive of Dead Souls) Aleš Šteger [Slovenia] travels to the heart of darkness of Europe Moderator: Thorsten Dönges Speaker: Frank Arnold
11 09 SUNDAY
11:00 SPECIALS_THE ART OF EDITING LITERATURHAUS_Main Salon Presentation: Delf Schmidt [Germany] on the art of editing Introduction: Ulrich Schreiber
11:00 SPECIALS_GRAPHIC NOVEL DAY HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Olivia Vieweg [Germany] and Nicolas Wouters [Belgium/Switzerland] delight with their coming-of-age stories Moderator: Andreas Platthaus This event is in English
12:00 SPECIALS_GRAPHIC NOVEL DAY HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Line Hoven [Germany], Jochen Schmidt [Germany] and Kat Menschik [Germany] revive classics Moderator: Andreas Platthaus This event is in English
12:30 SPECIALS_THE ART OF EDITING LITERATURHAUS_Main Salon Panel discussion: Raimund Fellinger [Germany], Franziska Günther [Germany] and Amber Qureshi [USA]
13:00 SPECIALS_GRAPHIC NOVEL DAY HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage James Turek [USA/Germany] holds up a mirror to US society Moderator: Andreas Platthaus This event is in English
14:00 SPECIALS_GRAPHIC NOVEL DAY HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Comic Connection: »Begegnungen in der Fremde« (Encounters in foreign environments], with Salam al Hassan [Syria/UAE] and Sebastian Lörscher [Germany] Conversation in English
15:00 SPECIALS_THE ART OF EDITING LITERATURHAUS_Main Salon Young editors: Tom Müller [Germany], Lina Muzur [Bosnia/Germany], Tilman Vogt [Germany] and Martina Wunderer [Italy/Germany]
15:00 SPECIALS_ISLAMISM HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Ahmed Rashid [Pakistan] on the rise of the Taliban and ISIS in Pakistan and Afghanistan
16:00 SPECIALS_GRAPHIC NOVEL DAY HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Marc-Antoine Mathieu [France] presents his classics of comic book art Moderator: Andreas Platthaus
16:30 SPECIALS_THE ART OF EDITING LITERATURHAUS_Main Salon Portrait of an editor: with Katharina Raabe [Germany]
16:30 SPECIALS_ISLAMISM HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Peter Neumann [Germany] on the new jihadists, ISIS, Europe and the next wave of terrorism Moderator: Arno Widmann
17:00 SPECIALS_GRAPHIC NOVEL DAY HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Zeina Abirached [Lebanon/France]: A tribute to Beirut Moderator: Andreas Platthaus This event is in English
17:30 SPECIALS_EXHIBITION | VERNISSAGE HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Ground-Floor Lobby Graphic Art by Barbara Yelin [Germany] and David Polonsky [Israel] Moderator: Andreas Platthaus This event is in English Free admission
18:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby In »Daldossi oder das Leben des Augenblicks« (Daldossi, or the Life of a Moment) Sabine Gruber [Italy/Austria] examines the journalistic pursuit of truth, war, crisis and a great love Moderator: Thorsten Dönges
18:00 SPECIALS_GRAPHIC NOVEL DAY HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Gilad Seliktar [Israel] and Barbara Yelin [Germany] take a look at Israeli society Moderator: Andreas Platthaus This event is in English
18:00 SPECIALS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Chahla Chafiq [Iran/France], Mehdi Mozaffari [Iran/Denmark] and Taslima Nasrin [Bangladesh/USA] on the topicality of the »Manifesto of 12« This event is in English
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD | PREMIERE HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage »Die Wiedergeburt der Ameisen« (How Did One Ant Make a Difference?): an autobiographically inspired novel by Liao Yiwu [China/Germany] Moderator: Arnod Widmann Speaker: Frank Arnold
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby Alexandra Kleeman [USA] examines how consumer society shapes and influences current ideals of beauty and their effect on young women in »You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine« Moderator: Shelly Kupferberg Speaker: Lena Stolze Reading in German, conversation in English
19:30 SPECIALS_Poetry Night III LITERATURHAUS_Main Salon Aleš Šteger presents the poetry project »Versopolis« with Krystyna Dąbrowska [Poland], Semier Insayif [Austria] and Sigurbjörg Þrastardóttir [Iceland] Moderator: Aleš Šteger Speaker: Susanna Kraus
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage In »Destinies« the Arabic Booker Prize winner Rabai al-Madhoun [Palestine/Great Britain] talks about the Palestinian exodus and living in Israel Moderator: Hussain Al-Mozany Speaker: Thomas B. Hoffmann
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby Wells Tower [Canada/USA] reads from his short story collection »Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned« Moderator: Bernhard Robben Speaker: Roland Schäfer
21.00 SPECIALS_HERE! HERE! THERE! HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Reading with Will Alexander [USA] A program of the Berliner Festspiele
12 09 MONTAG
18:00 SPECIALS LITERATURHAUS_Main Salon Deepti Kapoor [India], Arvind Krishna Mehrotra [India], Pankaj Mishra [India/Great Britain] and Ahmed Rashid [Pakistan] on India under Narendra Modi, the country’s current prime minister Moderator: Priya Basil This event is in English
19:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD INSTITUTO CERVANTES Antonio Ortuño’s [Mexico] »La Fila India« (Indian File) – a crime novel about human trafficking and refugees living in Mexico Moderator: Michi Strausfeld Speaker: Tom Wlaschiha
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_ Side Stage »Based on a True Story« – Delphine de Vigan [France] plays a fascinating game with fiction and reality Moderator: Vincent von Wroblewsky Speaker: Regina Gisbertz
19:30 SCIENCE AND THE HUMANITIES HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Symposium: »Inequality in the 21st Century – Progress, Capitalism and Global Poverty«, OPENING EVENT with Anthony Atkinson [Great Britain], Angus Deaton [USA/Great Britain], David Graeber [USA] and Michael Hudson [USA] Moderator: Alexander Hagelüken This event is in English
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby Ivan Vladislavić [South Africa] on searching for identity and maintaining the fragile peace in South Africa Music: Günter Baby Sommer Speaker: Thomas Brückner
19:30 SPECIALS_SCRITTURE GIOVANI LITERATURHAUS_Fireside Lounge »Much Ado About Nothing«, short stories inspired by Shakespeare, with Rebecca F. John [Great Britain], Ilaria Gaspari [Italy/France], Mercedes Lauenstein [Germany] and Nina Polak [Netherlands] Speaker: Tatiana Nekrasov
19:30 SPECIALS_Poetry Night IV LITERATURHAUS_Main Salon Valerio Magrelli’s [Italy] poetry: »a soliloquy written with a pencil and small notebook, during the deepest and most silent hours of the night« [Octavio Paz] Moderators: Theresia Prammer and Piero Salabè Speaker: Frank Arnold
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD | PREMIERE HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby The German premiere of Uzma Aslam Khan’s [Pakistan/USA] »Thinner Than Skin« Moderator: Susanna Kraus This event is in English
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD LITERATURHAUS_Main Salon Alisa Ganieva’s [Russia] »Eine Liebe im Kaukasus« (Love in the Caucasus) Moderator: Christiane Körner Speaker: Kathleen Gallego-Zapata
21.00 SPECIALS_HERE! HERE! THERE! HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Reading and Diskussion with Lisa Robertson [Canada/France] A program of the Berliner Festspiele
13 09 TUESDAY
10:30 SCIENCE AND THE HUMANITIES HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Symposium: »Inequality. What Can Be Done?« – Anthony Atkinson’s [Great Britain] program for social change This event is in English
12:00 SCIENCE AND THE HUMANITIES HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Symposium: »The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy« with David Graeber [USA] Moderator: Philip Grassmann This event is in English
15:00 SCIENCE AND THE HUMANITIES HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Symposium: »Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy« with Michael Hudson [USA] Moderator: Ulrike Herrmann This event is in English
16:30 SCIENCE AND THE HUMANITIES HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Symposium: »The Great Escape. Health, Wealth and the Origins of Inequality« with Angus Deaton [USA/Great Britain] Moderator: Ulrike Herrmann This event is in English
18:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby Namwali Serpell [Zambia/USA] discusses the short story »The Sack«, for which she received the prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing, with Binyavanga Wainaina [Kenya] Moderator: Flora Veit-Wild
18:00 SPECIALS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Antonio Ortuño [Mexico] on violence in Central America
19:00 SCIENCE AND THE HUMANITIES HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_ Main Stage Symposium: »Inequality in the 21st Century – Progress, Capitalism and Global Poverty«, CLOSING DISCUSSION with Anthony Atkinson [Great Britain], Angus Deaton [USA/Great Britain], David Graeber [USA], Michael Hudson [USA], Peter Bofinger [Germany] and Judith Niehues [Germany] Moderator: Alexander Hagelüken This event is in English
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage In »Pers« (The Persian) Alexander Ilitchevski [Russia/Israel] creates a geopoetry for the Caspian region Speaker: Friedhelm Ptok
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby Paolo Giordano’s [Italy] »Black and Silver« on loneliness in relationships Moderator: Maike Albath Speaker: Denis Abrahams
19:30 SPECIALS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Frank A. Meyer [Switzerland/Germany] on Germany Moderator: Daniel Abbou
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD LITERATURHAUS_Main Salon Emma Braslavsky’s [Germany] »Leben ist keine Art mit einem Tier umzugehen« (Life Is No Way to Handle an Animal) – a farce on notorious individuals who are constantly trying to improve their life and fighting for a better world Moderator: Vera Block
21:00 ERINNERUNG, SPRICH HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Main Stage In »Shylock Is My Name« Howard Jacobson [Great Britain] retells Shakespeare’s »The Merchant of Venice« Moderator: Bernhard Robben Speaker: Sven Philipp
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Sergej Lebedev’s [Russia] »Menschen im August« (People in August) on political change in Russia in the summer of 1991 Speaker: Friedhelm Ptok
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby »World Shadow«, Nir Baram’s [Israel] novel on a system dominated by financial greed and a hunger for power, touches a raw nerve Speaker: Stella Adorf
21.00 SPECIALS_HERE! HERE! THERE! HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Reading and discussion with Monika Rinck [Germany] A program of the Berliner Festspiele
14 09 WEDNESDAY
18:00 REFLECTIONS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage In »Warum Europa eine Republik werden muss! Eine politische Utopie« (Why Europe Must Become a Republic! A Political Utopia) Ulrike Guérot [Germany] presents her future vision of a »European Republic« Moderator: Arno Widmann
18:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HEINRICH VON KLEIST LIBRARY In »Der Mann, der das Glück bringt« (The Man Who Brings Luck) Catalin Dorian Florescu [Romania/Switzerland] takes us to 1900s New York and the magical universe of the Danube Delta
19:00 SPECIALS HEINRICH BÖLL STIFTUNG SHRINKING SPACES: Pankaj Mishra [India/Great Britain] and Eka Kurniawan [Indonesia] discuss civil liberties in Asia Free admission
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Main Stage Margriet de Moor’s [Netherlands] »Schlaflose Nacht« (Sleepless Night) – a love story about farewells and dying, anger and jealousy and the promise of tentative new beginnings Moderator: Gabriele von Arnim Speaker: Lena Stolze
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage A love letter to the art of making newspapers: »Umbruch« (The Wrap) – theater critic Gerhard Stadelmaier’s [Germany] debut novel
19:30 SCIENCE AND THE HUMANITIES HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Sigrid Weigel [Germany] on Hannah Arendt’s anthropological analyses of political events and their literary origins Moderator: Paul Ingendaay
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Main Stage In »Du sagst es« (You Said It) Connie Palmen [Netherlands] reflects on the tragic love story between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Moderator: Gabriele von Arnim
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Jonathan Galassi’s [USA] »Muse«: a roman à clef of the world of American publishing in 1960s New York Moderator: Thomas Böhm Speaker: Christian Brückner
21.00 SPECIALS_HERE! HERE! THERE! HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Reading with CAConrad [USA] A program of the Berliner Festspiele
15 09 THURSDAY
15:00 SPECIALS_MADE IN GERMANY HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Wolfgang Hetzer [Germany]: Out of hand…: Deutsche Bank Moderator: Christopher Kopper
16:30 SPECIALS_MADE IN GERMANY HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Stephan Loge [Germany] and Hubert Nienhoff [Germany]: the »performance« of the Berlin-Brandenburg Airport building site
18:00 SPECIALS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage SHORT STORIES with Namwali Serpell [Zambia/USA], Tania James [India/USA] and Hassan Blasim [Irak/Finland] Moderator: Paul McVeigh This event is in English
18:00 SPECIALS_MADE IN GERMANY HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Ferdinand Dudenhöffer [Germany], Christopher Kopper [Germany] and Hermann-Josef Tenhagen [Germany]: Major fraud as »cheat software« (Schummelsoftware): the state of affairs at VW Moderator: Daniel Abbou
18:00 SPEAK, MEMORY HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby »Henry James. Leben in Bildern« (His Life in Pictures): Verena Auffermann [Germany] celebrates Henry James as a pioneer of the modern age Introduction: Ulrich Schreiber
18:00 SPEAK, MEMORY INSTITUTO CERVANTES Susanne Lange und Petra Strien present their new translation of »Don Quijote«
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Main Stage »My Brilliant Friend«: Part I of the Neapolitan saga by Elena Ferrante [Italy], the great, mysterious Italian writer Read by Eva Mattes Followed by a critics’ panel discussion with Maike Albath, Dirk Knipphals, Iris Radisch and Luigi Reitani Moderator: Andreas Isenschmid
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage In »The Lost Times Accidents« John Wray [USA/Austria] embarks on an adventure beginning in turn-of-the-century Vienna to present-day Manhattan Moderator: Bernhard Robben
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby In Ivana Sajko’s [Croatia] »Liebesroman« (Romantic Novel) a young couple tries to rekindle the love they lost under precarious conditions Moderator: Flora Veit-Wild Speaker: Regina Gisbertz
19:30 SPECIALS_MADE IN GERMANY HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Wolfgang Hetzer [Germany], Georg Mascolo [Germany], Hubert Nienhoff [Germany] and Jörg Schmitt [Germany]: Can the partial decline of the ›Made in Germany‹ brand be stopped? Moderator: Daniel Abbou
19:30 SPEAK, MEMORY INSTITUT FRANÇAIS Samuel Shimon [Iraq/Great Britain] remembers the novelist and lyricist Albert Cossery
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Main Stage In »The Realm of God« Emmanuel Carrère [France] examines human existence from an unusual perspective Moderator: Iris Radisch Speaker: Roland Schäfer
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Tania James [India/USA] plumbs the moral complexities of the ivory trade from different perspectives in »The Tusk That Did the Damage« Moderator: Priya Basil Speaker: Julia Malik Reading in German, event in English
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby Paul McVeigh [Ireland/Great Britain] travels back to 1980s Belfast and the start of the Troubles in »The Good Son« Moderator: Bernhard Robben Speaker: Denis Abrahams
21.00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD INSTITUTO CERVANTES Selva Almada’s [Argentina] »Sengender Wind« (Torrid Wind): very contrasting characters clash in the Argentinian vastness Moderator: Michi Strausfeld Speaker: Beatrice Faßbender
16 09 FRIDAY
16:30 SPECIALS_ISLAMISM INSTITUT FRANÇAIS Mohammad Abu Rumman [Jordan] on »IS and Al-Qaeda. The Sunni Crisis and Rivalry in Global Jihad«
18:00 SPECIALS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Dana Golan [Israel/Germany] on »Breaking the Silence: providing a confidential platform for serving and discharged Israeli soldiers and reservists to describe their experiences in the Israeli-occupied territories« This event is in English
18:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Sharon Dodua Otoo [Great Britain/Germany] reads from »Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin« (Herr Gröttrup Sits Down), for which she received the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
19:30 SPECIALS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby Etgar Keret [Israel], Anja Tuckermann [Germany], and the screenwriters Bettina Blümner [Germany] and Lih Janowitz [Germany] on their joint project »Blickwechsel« (Change of Perspective) Moderator: Wolf Iro In cooperation with the Goethe Institute Israel
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby In »Man Tiger« Eka Kurniawan [Indonesia] unravels an act of violence and offers insight into the traditions and mythology of South East Asian culture Moderator: Bernhard Robben Speaker: Denis Abrahams
19:30 SPECIALS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage New German Voices with Shida Bazyar [Germany] and Senthuran Varatharajah [Sri Lanka/Germany] Moderator: Theresia Enzensberger
19:30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD INSTITUT FRANÇAIS »Der Himmel gibt, der Himmel nimmt« (Heaven Gives, Heaven Takes) is Mahi Binebine’s [Morocco] coming-of-age ode to life, education and poetry Moderator: Hussain Al-Mozany Speaker: Frank Arnold
20:00 SPECIALS ST. JOHANNES EVANGELIST KIRCHE Olfactory Reading with Nikola Madzirov [Macedonia] and Julia Kissina [Russia] in collaboration with the Osmodrama Festival Speaker: Eva Mattes Pre-sale via Osmodrama.com
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Bregje Hofstede’s [NL/Belgium] and Niña Weijers [Netherlands] in conversation Moderator: Shelly Kupferberg Speaker: Stella Adorf
21.00 SPECIALS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby Reading with Herta Müller [Romania/Germany], followed by a conversation between Yu Jie [China/USA] and Tienchi Martin-Liao [China/Germany] on the detained Liu Xiaobo Music: Liao Yiwu Moderator: Dr. Volker Stanzel
21.00 SPECIALS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Garden Stage Young German Authors – »Close-Up«: Jason Oliver Bartsch, Lea Beiermann, Lukas Hoffmann, Miriam Pontius and Jasper Westhaus Moderator: Daniela Seel
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD INSTITUT FRANÇAIS Hassan Blasim’s [Iraq/Finland] »Der Verrückte vom Freiheitsplatz and andere Geschichten über den Irak« (The Madman of Freedom Square and Other Stories about Iraq) paints Iraq as a surrealist inferno Speaker: Matthias Scherwenikas
17 09 SATURDAY
18:00 REFLECTIONS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby »One of Us. The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway«: Åsne Seierstad’s [Norway] biography of the Norwegian murderer Moderator: Beatrice Faßbender This event is in English
19:30 SPECIALS HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Main Stage Yanis Varoufakis [Greece] and Joseph Vogl [Germany] on Europe Moderator: Arno Widmann
19:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Side Stage Nicola Lagioia [Italy] sets off for the »Eiskalter Süden« (Icy South) Moderator: Elettra De Salvo Speaker: Roland Schäfer
19.30 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby Varujan Vosganian’s [Romania] »Das Spiel der hundert Blätter« (The Game of One Hundred Leaves): marginal figures of contemporary Romanian society and their experiences during the dictatorial regime
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Main Stage Alain de Botton [Switzerland/Great Britain] on »The Course of Love« Moderator: Bernhard Robben
21:00 LITERATURES OF THE WORLD HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Upper Lobby Rolf Hochhuth [Germany] reads ballads from »Das Grundbuch. 365 Sieben- bis Zwölfzeiler« (The Day Book. 365 Seven to Twelve Liners)
POST-FESTIVAL EVENTS
28 09–01 10
2ND INTERNATIONAL LITERATURE FESTIVAL ODESSA LITERATURE MUSEUM ODESSA, TERMINAL 42, PUPPET THEATRE ODESSA, HOTEL LONDONSKAYA
With IVAN ANDRUSJIAK [Ukraine], MILENA BAISCH [Germany], ZSOFIA BAN [Hungary], AZOUZ BEGAG [France], MERIAM BOUSSELMI [Tunisia], JOHN BOYNE [Ireland], BORIS CHERSONSKY [Ukraine], SONJA DANOWSKI [Germany], VICTOR EROFEYEV [Russia], ZSUZSANNA GAHSE [Switzerland], INES GARLAND [Argentina], OLGA GRJASNOWA [Germany], ALEXANDER ILITSCHEVSKIJ [Russia/Israel], ILYA KAMINSKY [Ukraine/USA], ESTHER KINSKY [Germany], JULIA KISSINA [Ukraine/Germany], YITZHAK LAOR [Israel], PEDRO LENZ [Switzerland], LIAO YIWU [China/Germany], TANJA MALYARTCHUK [Ukraine/Austria], AMANDA MICHALOPOULOU [Greece], LAKSMI PAMUNTJAK [Indonesia], KATJA PETROWSKAJA [Ukraine/Germany], JAROSLAV RUDIŠ [Czech Republic], IVANA SAJKO [Croatia], ALEŠ ŠTEGER [Slovenia], MARCIN SZCZYGIELSKI [Poland], RAPHAEL URWEIDER [Switzerland], EDWARD VAN DE VENDEL [Netherlands] Directors: Hans Ruprecht [Switzerland] und Ulrich Schreiber [Germany]
12 10 WEDNESDAY 20:00 SPECIALS | PREMIERE BERLINER ENSEMBLE In his autobiography »Warte nicht auf bessre Zeiten!« (Don’t Wait For Better Times!) Wolf Biermann [Germany] reminisces about his life
18 11 FRIDAY
20.00 CONCERT BERLINER ENSEMBLE ».....paar eckige Runden drehn!« (.....go for a couple of angular spins!) – Party for Wolf Biermann’s 80th Birthday, with Pamela Biermann and the Central Quartet (Zentralquartett) [Luten Petrowsky [as], Christoph Theves [tb], Uli Gumpert [p], Günter Baby Sommer [dr]]
International Children’s- and Young Adult Literature
07 09 WEDNESDAY 9:00 INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Main Stage OPENING SPEECH and premiere reading by Ruta Sepetys [USA] from her novel »Salt to the Sea« This event is in English
07 09 & 10–17 09 MONDAY–FRIDAY 9:00–22:00, SATURDAY–SUNDAY 14:00–22:00 INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Ticket Hall The exhibition »Das außergewöhnlich Buch« (The Extraordinary Book), curated by guests of this section Free admission
11 09 SUNDAY 11:00–17:00 INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE DIE GELBE VILLA Kreuzberg 14th Family Day with illustrators and readings by international authors Free admission
14 09 WEDNESDAY 18:00 INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE WEINMEISTERHAUS Mitte 13th Literary Night Salon – Workshop discussion on »Die Kunst der Özge Samanci« (The Art of Özge Samanci) with Özge Samanci [Turkey/USA] This event is in English
15 09 THURSDAY 16:00 INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Main Stage U20 Poetry Slam Vol. 7 – Closing event with Berlin students
15 09 THURSDAY 18:00 INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE HAUS DER BERLINER FESTSPIELE_Rehearsal Stage Workshop discussion with Alex Gino [USA] on his novel »George« This event is in English
Go to www.literaturfestival.com/kjl for the full program and schedule of events for the INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S AND YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE Section.
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The complete program will be available from August 24, 2016.
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Cover — Sunandini Banerjee Translation — Cressida Joyce