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