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EVENTS PDF generated on: 12/09/2014 Search term: finnland cool From: 12/09/2014 Venue: Finland Pavilion, Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage. 2014 116 event(s) has / have been found for your search criteria. TUESDAY | 07. OCTOBER 2014 3 WEDNESDAY | 08. OCTOBER 2014 4

12.30 | Press conference | Discussion with the press | Tour 10.00 - 10.20 | Lecture Press Tour through the Guest of Honour Pavilion: Finnland. Cool. Finland Fever for Beginners Lesson 1 Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Guest of Honour 2014: Finland

Round Tour through the Finland Pavilion after the opening press conference of the Frankfurt Book Fair. The Finnish language(s) - verbal and nonverbal communication in Finland: Roman Schatz is a German Organiser: Finnland. Cool. expat living in Helsinki for almost 30 years now. Blowing the whistle on his home country of choice, Venue: Finland Pavilion, Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Schatz skillfully, yet with brutal irony, introduces the key clichés about Finland. In five entertaining Language: German | English | Finnish lectures you can acquaint yourself with the Finnish people.

Organiser: Finnland. Cool. 18.30 - 21.00 | Reception | Happy Hour | Opening ceremony Participants: Schatz, Roman Opening of the Guest of Honour Pavilion: Finnland. Cool. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English Guest of Honour 2014: Finland

Official opening of the Guest of Honour presentation. 10.00 - 10.20 | Reading | Lecture Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Breakfast Kalevala with Tilman Spreckelsen Venue: Finland Pavilion, Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Language: German | English | Finnish The creation of the world from a duck’s egg, a wizard in love, a miraculous mill that makes gold and flour out of nothing. The Finnish national epic "Kalevala" is one of the greatest poetic works of literature and inspired artists such as Jean Sibelius, J. R. R. Tolkien or the creators of the Donald-Duck-comics. All this is reason enough to talk about "Kalevala" on every book fair morning. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Spreckelsen, Tilman Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German

11.30 - 11.50 | Lecture Alvar Aalto - Second Nature Art book / Art / Design | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland As the best-known Finnish architect of his generation Alvar Aalto's (1898-1976) buildings embody a masterful interplay of organic volumes, forms and materials, while his objects are symbols of Finnish design. Jochen Eisenbrand, the Vitra Design Museum's Chief Curator, discusses Aaltos oevre, as well as the work behind the major retrospektive and publication "Alvar Aalto - Second Nature". Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Co-organiser: Vitra Design Museum Participants: Eisenbrand, Jochen Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English

12.00 - 12.20 | Discussion | Lecture Can the Baltic Sea Be Saved? Guest of Honour 2014: Finland

The Baltic Sea is a sphere of interaction in the cross sea between the East and the West, the South and the Language: German | English

North. Seafaring, trade, the aspiration for power, the exchange of information shaped this area as long as it has been inhabited. Human habitats and actions along the Baltic Sea’s coasts have permanently 13.00 - 13.20 | Presentation | Awards ceremony damaged its sensitive eco-system. Finnish State Award for Foreign Translators Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Translation Co-organiser: John Nurminen Foundation The award ceremony: The recipient of the Finnish State Prize for Translation will this year be announced Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site and celebrated at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The prize, established already in 1975, is awarded by the Language: German | English Ministry of Education and Culture on recommendation by FILI - Finnish Literature Exchange. Welcome to share the joy and necessity of literary translation! 12.00 - 12.30 | Discussion | Reading Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Peter von Bagh: Aki Kaurismäki Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Film Language: German | English

A richly illustrated journey into the Kaurismäki-universe: film historian von Bagh successfully made the usually rather silent director open up. Von Bagh discloses references to the Finnish culture also to non- 13.00 - 13.20 | Discussion | Interview | Conversation Finnish readers. The volume is topped off by movie critical essays about all of Kaurismäki’s works and a LITERATURE | GERMANY | FINLAND 1 brief presentation of key subjects. Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Organiser: Finnland. Cool. David Wagner in conversation with Juha Itkonen. "I went shopping: birch shampoo, pine shampoo, Participants: von Bagh, Peter | Schatz, Roman blueberry shampoo. Quite too much for four weeks. One is prone to stockpile, when the leaves keep on Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site falling off trees and the long winter approaches." David Wagner, the winner of the Leipzig Book Fair Language: German | English | Finnish Prize 2013.

12.30 - 12.50 | Discussion Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Co-organiser: Goethe-Institut Finnland Tove Jansson: The Summerbook Participants: Wagner, David | Itkonen, Juha | Fritze, Mikko Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site The Moomin creator Tove Jansson´s most loved adult book is already a classic, a book to be read each Language: Finnish | German summer. Sophia Jansson and Claudia Müller talk about their personal connections to the book.

Organiser: Finnland. Cool. 13.30 - 13.50 | Discussion | Presentation Participants: Jansson, Sophia | Müller, Claudia Nils-Aslak Valkeapää - the Sámi Shaman Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Language: German | Swedish Without Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943-2001), much of Sámi culture would be unknown. He sang the traditional joiks, he wrote poems, created visual worlds. He combined ancient tradition with fusion jazz. 12.30 - 12.50 | Discussion | Presentation His masterpiece, "Sonne, mein Vater", received the Nordic Literature Prize in 1991 and now it is out in Helene Schjerfbeck German to be admired. Johanna Domokos opens the doors to his magical world. Art book / Art / Design | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Organiser: Finnland. Cool. She is the most important Finnish artist of the first half of the twentieth century. Helene Schjerfbeck’s Participants: Domokos, Dr. Johanna (1862-1946) works bear witness to impressive intensity. While her painterly oeuvre attracts a great deal Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German of attention in Scandinavia, she is largely unknown abroad. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Köchling, Carolin Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site

13.30 - 14.30 | Discussion The father of odd Finnish humour? If so, is it possible to translate humour or do you have to know the Tove Jansson Revisited context it is created in? Writer Tuomas Kyrö whose recent novel is an eulogy to the grand old man and Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Children’s and Young Adult Paasilinna´s longtime editor Touko Siltala talk about why Paasilinna matters. Media Organiser: Finnland. Cool. 2014 the 100th anniversary of Tove Jansson is celebrated at large around the world. Jansson was a visual Participants: Kyrö, Tuomas | Siltala, Touko | Schedewie, Suvi artist, illustrator and an author, a much loved and appreciated by both children and adults. Sophia Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Jansson, Chairman of the board and creative director for Moomin Characters and niece of Tove Jansson, Language: German | Finnish together with biographer Tuula Karjalainen discuss with Tilman Spreckelsen. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. 15.00 - 15.30 | Reading Participants: Jansson, Sophia | Karjalainen, Tuula | Spreckelsen, Tilman Johanna Sinisalo: Finnisches Feuer Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Language: German | English | Finnish | Swedish The author, who describes her own texts as "Finnish Weird" will be talking about her new book

"Finnisches Feuer". It’s not only a parable of the surveillance society but also a peculiar novel about 14.00 - 14.20 | Reading | Presentation female concepts of life in a male-dominated world: All citizens and especially women have been Autumn Comes Too Soon, Every Year oppressed by the authorities - but the resistance in the underground starts to rise. Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Organiser: Finnland. Cool. In spite of the gloomy title, this anthology presents the young literary scenes in the three Finno-Ugric Participants: Sinisalo, Johanna | Moster, Stefan countries Finland, Estonia and Hungary. Common linguistic roots can be found, but are there any other Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site affinities between writers from these three countries? Maximilian Murmann went on a trip to find out Language: German | English | Finnish and together with Jan Kaus from Estonia, he will present the results. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. 15.30 - 15.50 | Reading Participants: Murmann, Maximilian | Kaus, Jan Ulla-Lena Lundberg: Eis Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Language: German | English In the novel "Eis" by Ulla-Lena Lundberg a new era dawns for the people of the Örar islands when the

new priest arrives with his family. The islanders are drawn to the optimistic and sophisticated 14.30 - 14.50 | Discussion newcomers. The family however struggles to understand the ancient forces and dangers that rule the icy Pasi Sahlberg landscapes. Education | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Organiser: Finnland. Cool. His expertise includes school improvement, international education issues, classroom teaching and Participants: Lundberg, Ulla-Lena | Wetzig, Karl-Ludwig learning and school leadership. Pasi Sahlberg's best selling book “Finnish Lessons: What Can The World Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Learn From Educational Change in Finland” won the 2013 Grawemeyer Award. He is currently a Language: German | English | Swedish visiting professor of practice at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. 16.00 - 16.30 | Discussion | Reading Participants: Sahlberg, Dr. Pasi Russia in Finnish Fiction Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Language: German | English | Finnish Finland is not only a Nordic country but also located between the East and the West, sharing an

ambivalent history with its big neighbor Russia. After 100 years being a part of the Russian Empire, 14.30 - 15.20 | Discussion | Interview | Conversation Finland had to bear up against the Soviet Union during Second World War and come to terms with it Arto Paasilinna during the Cold War. Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Liksom, Rosa | Moster, Stefan

Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site be present. Language: German | English | Finnish Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Kettu, Katja | Teir, Philip | Giger, Ursula 16.30 - 16.50 | Reading Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Sofi Oksanen: Als die Tauben verschwanden Language: German | English

Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland The author has established her reputation as a belletristic chronicler of the modern Estonian history. Also her most recent novel "Als die Tauben verschwanden" takes place in German-occupied Estonia: while Ronald stays in his hideout, Edgar tries to find his way to the center of the political power. Yet after the war, during the Soviet occupation, the tables turn again. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Oksanen, Sofi | Meyer, Susan Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: English | Finnish | German

16.30 - 17.00 | Performance Design Happy Hour by Jussi Karjalainen and Willem Heeffer Art book / Art / Design | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Jussi Karjalainen is a Helsinki-based graphic designer and illustrator. He mainly works with print design for books, records and posters. Willem Heeffer is a Dutch designer based in Helsinki, Finland. He is active in the joint fields of interior design, product design and architecture. In their installation Bread of Word, Jussi and Willem are serving pieces of Finnish culture on 196 unique plates. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Karjalainen, Jussi | Heeffer, Willem Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English

17.00 - 18.00 | Reception | Happy Hour Finnland. Cool. Happy Hour. Guest of Honour 2014: Finland

Welcome to Finland! Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English | Finnish | Swedish

17.00 - 18.30 | Presentation Granta Finland No. 3 Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Children’s and Young Adult Media Best of Young Finnish Fiction. The launch of Granta Finland 3. Writers Katja Kettu and Philip Teir will

10.00 - 10.20 | Discussion Participants: Elsässer, Regine | Zilliacus, Prof. Clas Breakfast Kalevala: Kalevala From the Land of Melancholia and Blondes Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Language: German | Swedish With Anne Pasanen and Georgia Panagiotidou. The creation of the world from a duck’s egg, a wizard in love, a miraculous mill that makes gold and flour out of nothing. The Finnish national epic "Kalevala" is 11.00 - 11.20 | Discussion one of the greatest poetic works of literature and inspired artists such as Jean Sibelius, J. R. R. Tolkien or Interdisciplinary Cooperation: Experinces and Views Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Electr. Publishing | E-Books | Electronic Devices the creators of the Donald-Duck-comics. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Cooperation with all the players of book publishing business and libraries. How cooperation changed the Participants: Pasanen, Anne | Panagiotidou, Georgia e-book situation in Finland and what participants think of it. With Kristiina Markkula (VKL) and Anna- Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Maria Soininvaara (Helsinki City Library), Jarmo Heikkilä (Ellibs oy) and Johanna Snell (Bonnier Books Language: German | English Finland).

Organiser: Finnland. Cool. 10.00 - 10.20 | Lecture Participants: Markkula, Kristiina | Soininvaara, Anna-Maria | Heikkilä, Jarmo | Snell, Johanna Finland Fever for Beginners Lesson 2 Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Language: English What distinguishes Finland from the rest of the world - the Finnish mentality. Roman Schatz is a German expat living in Helsinki for almost 30 years now. Blowing the whistle on his home country of choice, 11.00 - 11.20 | Reading Schatz skillfully, yet with brutal irony, introduces the key clichés about Finland. Markus Nummi: Am Anfang ein Garten Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Schatz, Roman The author presents a story about love, loss and friendship, set in a missionary station in the Chinese part Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site of Turkestan with the desert, mountains, gods and Asia in the background. The novel opens a door to Language: German | English another world. The reader witnesses a great love story that begins in the year 1903 and continues until the year 1941.

10.30 - 10.50 | Reading Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Selja Ahava: Der Tag, an dem ein Wal durch London schwamm Participants: Nummi, Markus | Stäblein, Ruthard Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English | Finnish The author will be presenting her debut novel, in which the main character Anna tries to hold onto her memories. As her memory is deteriorating she clings to a wordlist and makes up words for things that don’t have a name. As an old woman, Anna reminisces about her life, about the beautiful as well as the 11.30 - 11.50 | Lecture difficult moments. BY - a Village of Children´s Book Illustrators Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Illustration | Children’s and Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Young Adult Media Participants: Ahava, Selja | Giger, Ursula Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Ph. Dr. Maria Lassén-Seger talks about the specifics in illustrating for children in Swedish in Finland. Or Language: English | Finnish | German does language matter in pictures? The exhibition BY can be seen in the pavilion, Hall 3. 0 K 115 and in the Bibliothekszentrum Sachsenhausen.

10.30 - 10.50 | Discussion | Interview | Conversation Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Finland-Swedish Literary History Participants: Lassén-Seger, Maria Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Translation Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | Swedish Finland has a vibrant book scene in two languages. Translator Regine Elsässer and Professor Clas Zilliacus talk about a newly released literary history. Organiser: Finnland. Cool.

11.30 - 11.50 | Reading Biografist Tuula Karjalainen talks about the fascinating life and vast production of Tove Jansson, the Rax Rinnekangas: Der Mond flieht creator of Moomins. Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Organiser: Finnland. Cool. The author deals with themes like memory, emotions and self-reflection with a philosophical touch. In Participants: Karjalainen, Tuula | Michler-Janhunen, Anke the novel "Der Mond flieht" 13-year-old Lauri spends the summer in the countryside of northern Finland. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site He helps with haymaking and dreams himself, together with his cousins, into a secretive and sensual Language: German | Finnish parallel world. Yet beneath it all, there is a catastrophe waiting to happen. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. 13.00 - 13.20 | Reading Participants: Rinnekangas, Rax | Moster, Stefan Tuomas Kyrö: Kunkku Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Language: English | Finnish | German Known as poised satirist and humorist, Tuomas Kyrö reads from his new novel "Kunkku", in which he

illustrates the life of the last (fictive) king of Finland and rewrites the history of the 20th century along 12.00 - 12.20 | Reading the way - wonderfully peculiar and beyond any political correctness. Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen: Lauras Verschwinden im Schnee Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Participants: Kyrö, Tuomas | Moster, Stefan The author labels his texts as "realist fantasy". In his novel "Lauras Verschwinden im Schnee" the Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site teacher Ella is accepted into the legendary Literature Society of her hometown. At the welcoming Language: German | English | Finnish ceremony the founder Laura Hermelin disappears without a trace. Ella senses that the other members might be hiding something from her. What exactly is ”The Game” all about? 13.00 - 13.20 | Reading Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Mauri Antero Numminen: Tango ist meine Leidenschaft Participants: Jääskeläinen, Pasi Ilmari | Fritze, Mikko Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site The author presents his book in which the tango-lover Virtanen has taken a vow according to Platon’s Language: German | Finnish idea to stay a virgin until his 36th birthday. A pact that’s quite inconsistent with Virtanen’s passionate way of dancing the Finnish tango. When he falls in love with his dance partner, catastrophe ensues. 12.00 - 12.50 | Discussion Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Finnish Children´s Literature Participants: Numminen, Mauri Antero | Friedman, Tomas Education | Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Children’s and Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Young Adult Media Language: German | Finnish

Children in Finland read at an early age, they read a lot and they are read to by their parents. What does the contemporary children´s literature from Finland look like? Which are the bestsellers and can you 13.30 - 13.50 | Reading actually write about just anything in a book for children? Translator and children´s book expert Janina Antti Tuomainen: Todesschlaf Orlov, writer Siri Kolu and the chairwoman for Kulturkind e.V. Ulrike Nickel discuss. Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Organiser: Finnland. Cool. The crime novels of Antti Tuomainen are a fine mix of honed narration and Finnish noir, "Todesschlaf" Participants: Orlov, Janina | Kolu, Siri | Nickel, Ulrike | Lassén-Seger, Maria being a prime example: Aleksi is obsessed about the fate of his missing mother and goes on a quest to Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site find her. His investigations go off course when he falls for the daughter of a millionaire: she is using him Language: German | English | Finnish for her own gruesome purposes. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. 12.30 - 12.50 | Lecture Participants: Tuomainen, Antti | Michler-Janhunen, Anke Life and works of Tove Jansson Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Children’s and Young Adult Language: German | Finnish Media

13.30 - 14.20 | Discussion poetry by Edith Södergran, Elmer Diktonius, Rabbe Enckell, Gunnar Björling and Henry Parland. The Bilingual Dimensions edition, presenting Finland’s literary avant-garde of the first half of the 20th century, was published by Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Politics Kleinheinrich. Finland used to be part of Sweden for over 600 years. Today it is a bilingual country with Finnish and Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Swedish as official languages. What does this mean in everyday life, in politics, in literature? Discussion Participants: Rahikainen, Agneta | Liedtke, Klaus-Jürgen with Professor Henrik Meinander, writers Johanna Holmström and Philip Teir. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | Swedish Moderation: Markus Österlund (secretary in general for Folktinget - The Swedish Assembly of Finland) Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Meinander, Prof. Henrik | Holmström, Johanna | Teir, Philip | Österlund, Markus 15.00 - 15.20 | Reading Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Katja Kettu: Wildauge Language: German | English | Swedish Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland

The author reads her new novel that tells the love story of a Finnish midwife and a German officer during 14.00 - 14.30 | Reading the Lapland War. Her main characters are immediately attracted to each other and indulge on their wild Kati Hiekkapelto: Kolibri and unconditional passion. Meanwhile however, the prisoner camp where both are working becomes the Guest of Honour 2014: Finland setting for horrifying events. The author is considered as the uprising talent of Finnish crime fiction. In "Kolibri" police officer Anna Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Fekete investigates the case of a young woman who was brutally murdered during a late night run. Participants: Kettu, Katja | Spreckelsen, Tilman Anna’s colleague Esko tries to torpedo her in every way possible. Although it becomes clear that they Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English | Finnish can only find the killer together, Anna is already looking into the case on her own. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Hiekkapelto, Kati | Schrey-Vasara, Gabriele 15.30 - 15.50 | Reading Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Riikka Pulkkinen: Die Ruhelose Language: German | Finnish Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland

The author describes perceptively most different people in most different phases of life. She is not afraid 14.30 - 14.50 | Reading to write about major themes such as death, betrayal and illicit love. "Die Ruhelose" tells the story of two Johanna Holmström: Asphaltengel women. One of them promised her husband to help him die, because he has Alzheimer’s, the other one is Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Religion / Spirituality sixteen and entangled in a relationship with her teacher. In this novel Leila’s Finnish mother converts to Islam. After that all she cares about is the correct Organiser: Finnland. Cool. interpretation of the Koran. The father - originally from the Maghreb region - is a Muslim himself, feels Participants: Pulkkinen, Riikka | Schraml, Tina rather irritated by his wife’s fanaticism. A story about patriarchy and the inner conflicts between two Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: English | Finnish | German cultures. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Holmström, Johanna | Christely, Susan 15.30 - 16.20 | Discussion Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site VERSschmuggel: A German-Finnish Poetry Transfer Language: German | English | Swedish Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland

Poets Helena Sinervo, Kathrin Schmidt, Henriikka Tavi and Kerstin Preiwuß will present their results 14.30 - 15.20 | Presentation | Lecture and personal experiences of the VERSschmuggel translation workshops, to be published in a bilingual Finnish-Swedish Modernists anthology by both Poesia and Wunderhorn publishing houses right in time for the Frankfurt Book Fair. A Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland four-voice reading performance with a panel discussion afterwards with the editors. Agneta Rahikainen and Klaus-Jürgen Liedtke read excerpts and discuss this five-volume-edition of Organiser: Finnland. Cool.

16.00 - 16.20 | Reading Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Emmi Itäranta: Der Geschmack von Wasser Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Language: German | English | Finnish | Swedish

The author reads her debut novel "Der Geschmack von Wasser": Noria, the daughter of the tea master, 17.00 - 18.30 | Entertainment | Party and Sanja are best friends. When Sanja’s family is suffering more and more from the shortage of drinking water in the country, Noria tells her friend about a secret spring. She attracts the attention of the Finland Party Guest of Honour 2014: Finland military forces as keeping the knowledge of water reserves a secret is considered a crime. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Welcome to Finland! Come and taste our drinks! Participants: Itäranta, Emmi | Schraml, Tina Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: English | Finnish | German Language: German | Malay | English | Portuguese | Finnish | Swedish | French | Spanish

16.30 - 16.50 | Reading Miina Supinen: Drei ist keiner zu viel Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland The author is often described as a "humorist against her will", thanks to her tragicomic books. In "Drei ist keiner zu viel" the story is about a menage-à-trois at an archeological excavation in Finland, about Finnish pagan gods and new age, as well as about sex and love. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Supinen, Miina | Schraml, Tina Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: English | Finnish | German

16.30 - 17.00 | Lecture Design Happy Hour by Franziska Holzmann Art book / Art / Design | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Franziska Holzmann is a German designer who has been studying and working design in Finland. She finds Finnish culture, especially design and architecture, inspiring. Her installation "Kirppis" (flea market) is a personal collage of Finnish design: contemporary and classic Finnish design, found items and photography. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Holzmann, Franziska | Noor-Ilander, Kristina Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English

10.00 - 10.20 | Lecture introduce the audience to the vibrant and multilingual poetry scene of contemporary Finland. Finland Fever for Beginners Lesson 3 Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Participants: Kaakinen, Kaisa | Haasjoki, Pauliina | Hirvonen, Esa Finland’s nature: animals, plants, lakes, seasons and climate: Roman Schatz is a German expat living in Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Helsinki for almost 30 years now. Blowing the whistle on his home country of choice, Schatz skillfully, Language: German | English | Finnish yet with brutal irony, introduces the key clichés about Finland. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. 11.00 - 11.20 | Presentation Participants: Schatz, Roman BY - a village of children´s book illustrators Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Illustration | Children’s and Language: German | English Young Adult Media

BY - a village of children´s book illustrators: Illustrators Malin Ahlsved and Maija Hurme talk about and 10.00 - 10.20 | Discussion show their works. The exhibition BY can be seen in the pavilion, Hall 3. 0 K 115 and in the Breakfast Kalevala: Kalevala, a Nordic Saga Retold Bibliothekszentrum Sachsenhausen. Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Organiser: Finnland. Cool. "Kalevala", retold by Tilman Spreckelsen and illustrated by Kat Menschik. Interviewed by Thomas Participants: Ahlsved, Malin | Hurme, Maija Böhm. The creation of the world from a duck’s egg, a wizard in love, a miraculous mill that turns Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site nothing into gold and flour. The Finnish national epic "Kalevala" is one of the greatest poetic works of Language: German | Swedish literature and inspired artists such as Jean Sibelius and J. R. R. Tolkien. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. 11.30 - 11.50 | Reading Participants: Spreckelsen, Tilman | Menschik, Kat | Böhm, Thomas Seita Vuorela: Wir fallen nicht Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Children’s and Young Adult Language: German Media

The author writes for children and young adults and often uses magical elements and a dash of 10.30 - 10.50 | Discussion melancholy in her books, also in "Wir fallen nicht": The summer vacation of the brothers Mitja and Avant-Garde and Modernism Vladimir is overshadowed by the accidental death of Mitja’s best friend. Mitja makes new friends with a Art book / Art / Design | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland group of boys at the beach and lands in a world of mystique and magic. Finnish avant-garde and the modern era: In the beginning of the 20th century the city of Weimar had a Organiser: Finnland. Cool. big influence on the development of modern German culture. Henry van de Velde, Elisabeth Förster- Participants: Vuorela, Seita | Küddelsmann, Tanja Nietzsche and Henry Graf Kessler gathered talented architects, designers, painters, writers and theater Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English | Finnish reformers around them. The Finnish architect and critic Sigurd Frosterus was one of them. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Schrey-Vasara, Gabriele | Sarje, Dr. Kimmo 11.30 - 15.50 | Reading Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Leena Lehtolainen Language: German Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland

The female perspective plays an important role in the crime novels of Leena Lehtolainen. She’s known 10.30 - 11.20 | Discussion for her series about the detective Maria Kallio and the bodyguard Hilja Ilveskero. In "Der Löwe der What Is Going On In Finnish Poetry? Gerechtigkeit" and "Das Nest des Teufels" Ilveskero has to deal with crime in Switzerland and Tuscany. Guest of Honour 2014: Finland In "Wer ohne Schande ist" Maria Kallio is again investigating in Helsinki. Why have the Finns published more poetry in the last 15 years than ever before? Is there something Organiser: Finnland. Cool. unique about writing and performing poetry in Finland today? Finnish poets and poetry specialists Participants: Lehtolainen, Leena | Schatz, Roman Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site

Language: German | English | Finnish generations. The narrator Esa tries to explain the dynamics of his family to his daughter and also to

himself. With sensitive narration of individuals and metamorphoses, Itkonen creates identification points 12.00 - 12.20 | Discussion for the reader as well as the portrait of an era. Sabira Ståhlberg: Wolkenwanderer Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Participants: Itkonen, Juha | Böhm, Thomas Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Between the worlds: In her novel "Wolkenwanderer" Sabira Ståhlberg describes the Finnish society’s Language: English | Finnish | German brittle attitude towards everything strange. Dr. Johanna Domokos and translator Hannes Langendörfer talk with the author about Finland and Russia, about minorities and multicultural diversity against 13.00 - 13.20 | Discussion national monoculture. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Literatur - Deutschland - Finnland 2 Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Participants: Ståhlberg, Dr. Sabira | Langendörfer, Hannes | Domokos, Dr. Johanna Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Die deutsche Autorin Nora Gomringer verbrachte im September 2014 als Stadtschreiberin des Goethe- Language: German | Swedish Instituts vier Wochen in Helsinki und schrieb während ihres Aufenthalts für den Blog „Meet the

Germans - Meet in Finland“, in dem schon Marion Poschmann, David Wagner und Jan Böttcher 12.00 - 12.50 | Discussion berichteten. Sie erzählt auf dem Podium von Natur und Stadt, finnischem Humor und ihrem neuen Bild Mapping Finland der Nordeuropäer. Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Politics Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Co-organiser: Goethe-Institut Finnland Where does Finland belong? Are we oriented towards the East or the West, or do we continue to hold a Participants: Gomringer, Nora | Tavi, Henriikka | Fritze, Mikko steady course between the two political spheres? Is Finland a Nordic country, a part of Scandinavia or Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Western Europe? Finland’s relation to Europe and the rest of the world is constantly debated in politics, Language: German and this debate also shapes the Finnish identity.

Organiser: Finnland. Cool. 13.30 - 13.50 | Reading Participants: Linkola, Dr. Hannu | Hiippala, Dr. Tuomo | Moisio, Prof. Dr. Sami Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Kjell Westö: Das Trugbild Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Language: German | English | Finnish

The author writes in Swedish and is particularly known as a chronicler of Helsinki. In his new novel 12.30 - 12.50 | Discussion "Das Trugbild" he returns to the year 1938, the eve of the Second World War. Westö illustrates a torn Moomins Forever! society that is still visible in our times, where the ghost of nationalism is haunting Europe again. Literature & Non-Fiction | Comics | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Children’s and Young Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Adult Media Participants: Westö, Kjell | Heimann, Holger Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Janina Orlov and Ursula Giger talk about why those white snouted big trolls are so beloved. Language: German | English | Finnish Organiser: Finnland. Cool.

Participants: Orlov, Janina | Giger, Ursula 13.30 - 13.50 | Reading Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | Swedish Taavi Soininvaara: Das andere Tier Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland

13.00 - 13.20 | Reading The author focuses in his criminal novels on crime on international and political level. In "Tot" the UN Juha Itkonen: Ein flüchtiges Leuchten employee Leo Kara has stopped his medication and wants to finally learn the truth about his family. "Das andere Tier" is about Finnish Security Intelligence agent Arto Ratamo, a corpse and a nuclear arms race Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland in the volatile Near East. The author presents his family saga "Ein flüchtiges Leuchten" that spans five centuries and three Organiser: Finnland. Cool.

Participants: Soininvaara, Taavi Language: German

Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: Finnish | German 15.00 - 15.20 | Reading Timo Parvela: Ella und ihre Freunde außer Rand und Band 14.00 - 14.20 | Discussion | Interview | Conversation Literature & Non-Fiction | Children’s and Young Adult Media | Guest of Honour 2014: Empowering Girls and Women Finland Guest of Honour 2014: Finland The author has written more than 30 children’s books, including the series about Ella and her everyday How abuse, sexual violence and trauma haunt girls and women are the topics in Miina Savolainen’s life in the second grade. The heart-warming humour, the description of school life and small pieces of photo exhibition "The Loveliest Girl in the World" and Imbi Paju’s documentary film and book wisdom make Parvela’s books especially charming: in "Ella und ihre Freunde außer Rand und Band" "Memories Denied". Both art projects have been huge successes. The artists meet in a talk on Ella’s class secretly takes a whole circus in the school gym. empowering those who have lost so much of their dignity, be it in Soviet time Estonia or modern Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Finland. Participants: Parvela, Timo | Kritzokat, Elina Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Participants: Savolainen, Miina | Paju, Imbi Language: English | Finnish | German

Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | Finnish 15.30 - 15.50 | Reading Mauri Kunnas 14.00 - 14.20 | Reading Literature & Non-Fiction | Comics | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Illustration | Children’s Siri Kolu: Vilja und der Räuberschatz and Young Adult Media Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Children’s and Young Adult The author has written a lot of entertaining and informative picture books, e.g. a series of books in which Media anthropomorphic dogs re-enact historical themes and literary topics, such as the Finnish national epic The author is best known for her racy children’s books. In her new book "Vilja und der Räuberschatz" Kalevala, Robin Hood and the Vikings. Kunnas has also written comics for grown-up readers, for the protagonist is spending her third summer with the robber family and this time they’re searching for instance parodies of rock bands, and has worked as a graphic designer. the biggest treasure of all times. On their treasure hunt Vilja and the robbers attract the attention of other Organiser: Finnland. Cool. gangs of bandits - and now it’s all or nothing. Will she find the robber’s treasure? Participants: Kunnas, Mauri | Schatz, Roman Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Participants: Kolu, Siri | Kritzokat, Elina Language: German | English | Finnish

Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English | Finnish 15.30 - 16.30 | Reading | Presentation Schweiß & Poesie Tour: Spoken Word from Finland 14.30 - 15.20 | Discussion Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Classical War Four of the most important authors and organizers of Finnish literary events let you hear and see insight Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland the poetry and spoken words-szene of Finland by presenting their own texts. Moderation: Dirk Hülstrunk A civil war in 1918 and the Second World War have been traumatic experiences for the Finns. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Fortunately, wounds have been opened and slowly healed by novels about these conflicts. Discussion Participants: Hirvonen, Esa | Hertell, Harri | Slunga, Heli | Kulmala, Juha | Hülstrunk, Dirk about the war novels "Das Fromme Elend" (1919) by Frans Emil Sillanpää (the only Finnish Nobel Prize Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site author) and "Der Kriegsroman" (1954) by Väinö Linna. Language: German | English | Finnish

Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Plöger, Angela | Guggolz, Sebastian | von Münchhausen, Ernst | Moster, Helen 16.00 - 16.20 | Reading Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Ninka Reittu: Mick und Mumm - Das Abenteuer mit der blauen Katze Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland

She is an illustrator and debuted as an author with the picture book "Mick und Mumm - Das Abenteuer Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site mit der blauen Katze": the kitten Mick hops on the wrong train by mistake and has to be rescued by the Language: German | English | Finnish

tomcat Mumm. Together they will rescue the blue cat, who has been kidnapped and taken to a desert lighthouse island. 17.00 - 18.00 | Reception | Happy Hour Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Finnland. Cool. Happy Hour. Participants: Reittu, Ninka | Küddelsmann, Tanja Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Welcome to Finland! Language: English | Finnish | German Organiser: Finnland. Cool.

16.30 - 16.50 | Presentation Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English | Finnish | Swedish Design Happy Hour by Aalto + Aalto Art book / Art / Design | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland 17.30 - 18.30 | Discussion | Presentation Elina Aalto and Klaus Aalto are a design office wishing to bring new ideas to our material world and Kompositio: New Finnish Literature on Stage aiming to create everyday objects with a strong identity and story. Their installation "Creatures at Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Dinner" is born from a child's imagination inspired by books: ordinary things are changing into What happens, when 10 Finnish writers dramatize their texts together with two professional theater something weird and strange creatures gather around the table. directors and present them collectively on stage? "Kompositio", a literary tour through Germany, Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Switzerland and Austria in October 2014, redefines the form of traditional literary reading and borrows Participants: Aalto, Elina | Aalto, Klaus | Noor-Ilander, Kristina freely from other arts. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Karvonen, Anna-Mari | Pettersson, Akse | Bergroth, Aina | Ijäs, Kaisa | Haasjoki, Pauliina

The novel by Philip Teir is an epic, psychologically elaborate novel about a sophisticated middle class family searching for the meaning of life, torn between the quest for independence and the longing for stability. A timeless tale about those that have everything, yet can’t achieve happiness. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Teir, Philip | Böhm, Thomas Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: English | German | Swedish

17.00 - 17.20 | Reading Roope Lipasti: Ausflug mit Urne Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland In his new book "Ausflug mit Urne" Roope Lipasti tells the story of a road trip of two very different brothers that are traveling through Finland with the urn of their step-grandfather on the backseat of their car. It’s a humorous and sharp-witted novel about lost illusions, getting older and about how people’s perspectives on life can be quite different. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Lipasti, Roope | Kritzokat, Elina

10.00 - 10.20 | Lecture Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Finland Fever for Beginners Lesson 4 Language: German | English | Finnish

Guest of Honour 2014: Finland A paradise for women and other sexual minorities - equality in Finland: Roman Schatz is a German expat 11.00 - 11.20 | Presentation living in Helsinki for almost 30 years now. Blowing the whistle on his home country of choice, Schatz BY - A Village of Children´s Book Illustrators Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland skillfully, yet with brutal irony, introduces the key clichés about Finland. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Illustrators Åsa Lucander and Veronica Lassenius talk about and show their works. The exhibition BY Participants: Schatz, Roman can be seen in the pavilion, Hall 3. 0 K 115 and in the Bibliothekszentrum Sachsenhausen. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Language: German | English Participants: Lucander, Åsa | Lassenius, Veronica

Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site 10.00 - 10.20 | Presentation Language: German | Swedish Breakfast Kalevala. Schiffsholz für den Sänger. Invitation: required

Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Schiffsholz für den Sänger. A Kalevala-Projekt by Anja Harms and Eberhard Müller-Fries. 11.30 - 11.50 | Reading | Presentation Petteri Tikkanen: Blitzkrieg der Liebe Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Participants: Harms, Anja | Müller-Fries, Eberhard Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site In his graphic novel "Blitzkrieg der Liebe" Petteri Tikkanen tells the story of a friendship between Eero Language: German and Kanerva who both grow up in the Finnish countryside. While Kanerva evolves into a young woman, Eero keeps living in his infantile world. Ignored and left behind by more and more of his friends, Eero

10.30 - 10.50 | Reading finds himself in a situation with no way out. Timo Airaksinen: Lehre vom Glück Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Participants: Tikkanen, Petteri | Maiwald, Christian Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Prof. Dr. Timo Airaksinen is a professor in philosphy, but also well-known as author of popular science Language: German | English books. As a trained philosopher he writes books that deal with subjects such as technology, happiness, age and love. In his new book "Lehre vom Glück" he is questioning why people are unable to experience permanent happiness despite leading a secure and wealthy life. 11.30 - 11.50 | Reading Juha Vuorinen: Göttlich versumpft - Aus dem Tagebuch eines Saufkopfs Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Participants: Airaksinen, Prof. Dr. Timo | Schatz, Roman Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site The author regularly tops the bestseller lists in Finland with his absurd and shameless humor that makes Language: German | Finnish fun of the petit bourgeois values and morals. "Göttlich versumpft - Aus dem Tagebuch eines Saufkopfs" is a wild mix of sex, boozing and plenty of self irony in diary format.

10.30 - 11.20 | Discussion Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Finnish Comics Participants: Vuorinen, Juha | Pokkinen, Lottaliina Comics | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English | Finnish A small market for comics, but with great respect internationally. Meet Finnish comic experts Kalle Hakkola from the Finnish comics center, artists Tommi Musturi and Terhi Ekebom for the complete story on what is going on up in the North! And then: read Comic Atlas Finnland and Finnish-German 12.00 - 12.20 | Reading magazine Kutikuti. Experimental, moving and daring - see for yourself! Mooses Mentula: Nordlicht-Südlicht Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Hakkola, Kalle | Musturi, Tommi | Ekebom, Terhi | Maiwald, Christian

In his book the author illustrates the childhood in the north of Finland: Marianne enjoyed her first years Language: German

in Lapland together with her Jouni. When Lenne is born, their life seems to be perfect. But Lenne starts to rebel as his parents are constantly arguing - torn between the traditions of Lapland and the modern life 13.00 - 13.20 | Reading in Southern Finland. Pekka Hiltunen: Das schwarze Rauschen Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Participants: Mentula, Mooses | Weidle, Barbara The author is presenting his new crime novel "Das schwarze Rauschen". The main character Lia is Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site confronted with dark videos circulating on the Internet in which the victims are being brutally beaten up. Language: German | English | Finnish Soon the first dead body is found - the police are investigating, but Lia, her Finnish friend Mari and their team of experts from the "Studio" are already on to something. 12.00 - 12.20 | Reading Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Johan Bargum: Septembernovelle Participants: Hiltunen, Pekka | Schrey-Vasara, Gabriele Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Two men, both used to be married to the same woman, embark on a sailing trip. Only one of them Language: German | English | Finnish

returns. A crime novel one may think. Johan Bargum’s "Septembernovelle" tells a story about two friends on a last sailing trip, a woman that both united and separated them and the disappearance of a 13.00 - 13.20 | Reading friend. Matti Rönkä: Finnische Freunde Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Participants: Bargum, Johan | Bindermann, Susan The author writes criminal fiction about the anti-hero Viktor Kärppä, an ex-agent of the Soviet secret Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site service. In "Finnische Freunde. Drei Viktor-Kärppä-Krimis in einem Band" an assassination is planned, a Language: German | Swedish house burns down and a huge stash of drugs is coincidentally found. These three crime novels are for those who know to appreciate books full of play on words and interesting characters. 12.30 - 12.50 | Reading Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Leena Lander: Das Sonntagsmädchen Participants: Rönkä, Matti | Fritze, Mikko Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site After the end of his marriage, Risto retires to a small house at the coast which he has inherited from his Language: German | Finnish

grandmother Saida. He stumbles upon her old diaries that she wrote during the Finnish Civil War. By reading her entries he finds out more and more about Saida - as well as about the dark secret that died 13.30 - 13.50 | Discussion | Interview | Conversation with her. Female Classics Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Translation Participants: Lander, Leena | Moster, Stefan Elina Kritzokat and Helen Moster, translators and mediators of Finnish literature into German resp. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site German literature into Finnish, discuss modern Finnish classics: What makes writers like Maria Jotuni, Language: German | English | Finnish Eeva Kilpi, Raija Siekkinen, Solveig von Schoultz and Marja-Liisa Vartio so important and appealing to this day? 12.30 - 12.50 | Performance | Presentation Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Tove Jansson: Moomin Show Participants: Moster, Helen | Kritzokat, Elina Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German Matthias Wieland does a Moomin show. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Wieland, Matthias 13.30 - 13.50 | Reading | Presentation Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Ville Tietäväinen: Graphic Novel "Unsichtbare Hände" Literature & Non-Fiction | Comics | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland

The author tells in his Comic Finlandia awarded graphic novel "Unsichtbare Hände" the story of 14.30 - 15.20 | Discussion Moroccan tailor Rashid, who embarks for Europe on a quest for a better life himself and his family. Who Gets to Play in the Literary Field? Tietäväinen impressively describes the tough reality many illegal immigrants and migrant workers in Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Publishing Production | International Dialogue Europe face. What do we do to reflect the diversity of modern Finnish life in our literature? How do we build up Organiser: Finnland. Cool. working structures for integrating writers with other backgrounds and languages than Finnish and Participants: Tietäväinen, Ville | Höllerer, Florian Swedish? How do we reach the reading public, literary institutions, including literary prizes, writers' Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site unions and media? And last but not least: Who is a Finnish writer? Language: German | English | Finnish Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Co-organiser: Culture For All, Arts Promotion Centre Finland 14.00 - 14.20 | Reading Participants: Paqvalén, Dr. Rita | Ståhlberg, Dr. Sabira | Albers, Frank | Moster, Helen Prof. Dr. Anssi Halmesvirta: Land unter dem Nordlicht Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Language: German | English | Finnish

The author is a lecturer and professor of general history. In his book "Land unter dem Nordlicht: Eine Kulturgeschichte Finnlands" Halmesvirta presents the cultural history of Finland to the German speaking 15.30 - 15.50 | Reading audience in a compact form. The book covers the high and folk cultures as well as cultural policy and Poetry cultural developments in modern times. Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Readings by Jouni Inkala, Inger-Maria Aikio-Arianaick and Cia Rinne. A multilingual reading in Participants: Halmesvirta, Prof. Dr. Anssi | Moster, Stefan Finnish, Sami, Swedish and German. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English | Finnish Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Inkala, Jouni | Aikio-Arianaick, Inger-Mari Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site 14.00 - 14.20 | Reading Language: German | Finnish | Swedish Sari Luhtanen and Miikko Oikkonen: Nymphs

Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland 15.30 - 15.50 | Discussion In the author’s fantasy books series "Nymphs" the Greek mythological heroines are brought into today’s Teilzeitfinnen – German stories about Finland Helsinki. The modern nymphs must seduce a man during every full moon to stay alive; but if they fall in Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland love with them, it means certain death for their lovers. Two German writers, who partly live in Finland (Finnish wives, of course!), meet to discuss their novels Organiser: Finnland. Cool. about the country in the North. Christian Gasser’s Roman “Rakkaus! (finnisch: Liebe)” playfully checks Participants: Luhtanen, Sari | Oikkonen, Miikko out tangos, saunas and other clichés. Jan Costin Wagner has in five crime novels told the poetic story of a Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Finnish policeman, seeing what is happening under the surface in Finnish society. Language: German | English | Finnish Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Gasser, Christian | Wagner, Jan Costin | Moster, Helen 14.30 - 15.20 | Performance Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site FinGer Comic Battles Language: German | English | Finnish Literature & Non-Fiction | Comics | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland

16.00 - 16.20 | Reading Part one with team: Tommi Musturi, Petteri Tikkanen, Terhi Ekebom and others. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Hannu Raittila: Kontinentaldrift Participants: Musturi, Tommi | Tikkanen, Petteri | Ekebom, Terhi Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site The author's works are often social satires and balance on the line between fact and fiction. Language: German | Finnish "Kontinentaldrift" is about two neglected girls, who as teenagers hung around at the airport and dreamed

Your individual Calendar of Events! Your individual Calendar of Events! All updated events can always be found under www.book-fair.com/calendar. All updated events can always be found under www.book-fair.com/calendar. SATURDAY | 11. OCTOBER 2014 33 SATURDAY | 11. OCTOBER 2014 34 of far-off countries. Years later Johan embarks on a search for his missing daughter to repair their Language: English | Finnish relationship, the bonds of which were once broken like continents drifting apart.

Organiser: Finnland. Cool. 17.00 - 18.00 | Reception | Happy Hour Participants: Raittila, Hannu | Stäblein, Ruthard Finnland. Cool. Happy Hour. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Language: German | English | Finnish Welcome to Finland!

Linda Liukas is a programmer, storyteller and illustrator from Finland, teaching the basics of 17.30 - 18.30 | Reading programming for young women all over the world. Kids, especially girls, need to learn how to operate These Little Town Blues are Melting Away their computers. Her book, Hello Ruby, will be launched globally. Is coding the new literacy? Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Storytelling, girls and education are the topics in a talk with Blanca de Juti from Rovio (Angry birds). Pipsa Lonka’s play about a little coast town and its eccentric inhabitants suddenly have to face the Organiser: Finnland. Cool. dangers of the climate change. Actors of the Theater und Orchester Heidelberg will read parts of this Participants: Liukas, Linda | de Juti, Blanca critical and poetic drama that was awarded with the International Author’s Award at Heidelberger Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Stückemarkt in 2014. In 2015 the play will have its German premiere at the next Stückemarkt – enjoy. Language: German | English Organiser: Finnland. Cool.

16.30 - 16.50 | Discussion Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English | Finnish Kaamos Kosmos – Dorothea Grünzweig und ihre zwei Sprachen Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Seit 25 Jahren lebt die deutsche Lyrikerin Dorothea Grünzweig in Finnland. „Kaamos Kosmos“, ihr sechster Gedichtband, ist ohne dies Leben in der finnischen Sprache und Kultur nicht zu denken. Von der Natur erzählt er, vom strahlenden Licht und von alles verschlingender Finsternis: „Kaamos Kosmos“ erzählt wie Finnland die innere Welt und die Sprache bestimmt hat. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Grünzweig, Dorothea | Meyer-Gosau, Frauke Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German

16.30 - 16.50 | Presentation | Lecture Design Happy Hour by Kustaa Saksi Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Artist and designer Kustaa Saksi builds fantastical worlds of playful, paradoxical, and troubling yet inviting shapes, environments and psychedelic atmospheres. He combines organic qualities with uniquely detailed textures with energetic color palettes. His installation will be a 4-meter tall Fabergé- like inflatable egg decorated with colourful, imaginative figures and textures. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Saksi, Kustaa Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site

10.00 - 10.20 | Lecture Sami identities. Their texts, which will be published in the book "Erbmütter – Welttöchter", cover the Finland Fever for Beginners Lesson 5 stages of life from birth until death. Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Kippis! Alcohol and hangover in Finland: Roman Schatz is a German expat living in Helsinki for almost Participants: Lukkari, Rauni Magga | Aikio-Arianaick, Inger-Mari | Domokos, Dr. Johanna | Schlosser, 30 years now. Blowing the whistle on his home country of choice, Schatz skillfully, yet with brutal irony, Christine introduces the key clichés about Finland. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English | Finnish Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Schatz, Roman Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site 11.00 - 11.20 | Presentation | Interview | Conversation Language: German | English BY - A Village of Children´s Book Illustrators Art book / Art / Design | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Illustration | Children’s and Young

10.00 - 10.20 | Discussion Adult Media Breakfast Kalevala with Birgitta Assheuer Illustrators Anna Härmälä and Kasper Strömman talk about and show their works. The exhibition BY Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland can be seen in the pavilion, Hall 3. 0 K 115 and in Bibliothekszentrum Sachsenhausen. The creation of the world from a duck’s egg, a wizard in love, a miraculous mill makes gold and flour Organiser: Finnland. Cool. out of nothing. The Finnish national epic "Kalevala" is one of the greatest poetic works of literature and Participants: Härmälä, Anna | Strömman, Kasper inspired artists such as Jean Sibelius, J. R. R. Tolkien or the creators of the Donald-Duck-comics. All this Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | Swedish is reason enough to talk about "Kalevala" on every book fair morning. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Spreckelsen, Tilman | Assheuer, Birgitta 11.30 - 11.50 | Reading Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Jouni Inkala: Gedankenstrich eines Augenblicks Language: German Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland

The poet Jouni Inkala reads his poetry collection "Gedankenstrich eines Augenblicks": Selected texts 10.30 - 10.50 | Reading | Interview | Conversation from the author provide an insight into the complexity of his lyrical oeuvre, in which every single poem 2014 Bookfair Mystery: A Finn Shan’t be the Murderer becomes the focal point for fundamental experiences. Inkala creates poetic meditations with melancholic Multimedia / Crossmedia | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Electr. Publishing | E-Books | serenity and profound understanding for the fate of mankind. Electronic Devices | International Dialogue Organiser: Finnland. Cool. A hilarious crime story set on the fairground: 2014 Bookfair Mystery on www.Buchmesse.ARD.de. A Participants: Inkala, Jouni | Moster, Stefan Finnish bestselling author finds himself "on the rocks". Can his agent defrost him in time? This year Eva Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Lirot and Hughes Schlueter have invited Ralf Kramp and "German Finn", Roman Schatz. For the first Language: German | English | Finnish time the story is staged live! Authors and anecdotes directly at the scene of the crime. Cool. Organiser: Finnland. Cool. 11.30 - 11.50 | Discussion | Reading Participants: Lirot, Eva | Schlueter, Hughes | Kramp, Ralf | Schatz, Roman Cia Rinne: Finland-Swedish contemporary poetry Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Language: German Cia Rinne is a Finnish poet, born in Sweden and raised in Germany. She holds an MA degree in

Philosophy and has lived in many countries and cultures: both aspects have an influence on her lyrical 10.30 - 11.20 | Discussion work, which can be described as experimental. She will discuss Finland-Swedish contemporary poetry Sami Literature: Inger-Mari Aikio-Arianaick, Rauni Magga Lukkari with the German poetry author and publisher Daniela Seel. Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Organiser: Finnland. Cool. The poetry of the two Sami authors deals with gender roles while pondering new forms of female and Participants: Rinne, Cia | Seel, Daniela Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site

Language: German | English 13.00 - 13.20 | Reading

Markku Kivinen: Betongötter 12.00 - 12.20 | Reading Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Juhani Seppovaara: Ansichten eines Lebens The head of the Aleksanteri-Institute Markku Kivinen is presenting "Betongötter": In a semi-urban Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland concrete neighbourhood of the 1970s that once was praised as an architectonical vision of a new form of The author writes abundantly illustrated and often nostalgic books. "Ansichten eines Lebens" is a novel living, the suburbs represent Finland’s upheaval towards modern times. Telling their stories in diary that consists of short prose and old postcards. The book follows the life of the protagonist Juha from the entries, the five highly different protagonists describe their hopes and their disappointments. late 1940s until today. In the road trip travelogue "Mit dem Moped durch Finnland" Seppovaara gets to Organiser: Finnland. Cool. know his homeland anew and meets interesting characters along his way. Participants: Kivinen, Markku Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Participants: Seppovaara, Juhani | Naumann, Matthias Language: German | English | Finnish

Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Language: German | English | Finnish 13.00 - 13.20 | Reading

Salla Simukka: So Rot wie Blut 12.00 - 12.50 | Discussion Literature & Non-Fiction | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Finnish Design Heritage With her highly thrilling Lumikki-trilogy Salla Simukka scored an international success. In the first book Art book / Art / Design | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland "So Rot wie Blut" a silly prank results in a dangerous life and death hunt. Lone wolf Lumikki has to Is the heritage of Finnish design a blessing or a burden? Finnish design classics are known around the stand her ground in a ruthless drug scene. Who can she trust? world, new designs less. What does the Finnish design heritage mean for the designer today? How could Organiser: Finnland. Cool. this heritage be exploited even more? Should it be exploited more? What does the future of Finnish Participants: Simukka, Salla | Kritzokat, Elina design look like? Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Language: German | English | Finnish

Participants: Korvenmaa, Prof. Dr. Pekka | Holzmann, Franziska | Aalto, Elina | Veinola, Anne | Jokinen, Liisa 13.30 - 14.00 | Entertainment | Party Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site German-Finnish Singalong Language: English Music | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland Is there a better way to join happy forces than burst out singing together? Come sing German and Finnish 12.30 - 13.00 | Discussion songs! Companions for Life: Meet the Moomins! Organiser: Comics | Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Children’s and Young Adult Media Finnland. Cool. Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Tove Jansson (1914-2001) created a world of friendly but complex characters, inhabitants of the Moomin Language: German | Finnish valley. In the late 1950’s her comic strips were read by 20 million readers in 40 countries in 120 daily newspapers. Meet the experts Michael Groenewald and Christian Meiwald, who have introduced the 15.30 - 16.30 | Performance | Interview | Conversation Moomin, little My, the Hemulen and all the others for a new generation of readers in Germany. Handover Ceremony: Guest of Honour Finland 2014 - Indonesia 2015 Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Guest of Honour 2014: Finland | Guest of Honour 2015: Indonesia Participants: Meiwald, Christian | Groenewald, Michael Venue: Finland Pavilion / Café. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site Following a literary discussion with the Finnish author Kjell Westö and Indonesian author Dewi Lestari, Language: German the so called "Guest Scroll", an art object specially created for the Frankfurt Book fair, is handed to Indonesia, Guest of Honour 2015.

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