YOUR PERSONAL CALENDAR OF EVENTS OF THE FRANKFURT BOOK FAIR 2014! You have searched events for the following criteria: 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 lectures you can acquaint yourself with the Finnish people. Language: German | English | Finnish 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 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. WEDNESDAY | 08. OCTOBER 2014 5 WEDNESDAY | 08. OCTOBER 2014 6 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 of attention in Scandinavia, she is largely unknown abroad. Language: German Organiser: Finnland. Cool. Participants: Köchling, Carolin Venue: Finland Pavilion / Cool. Stage., Forum, Ebene/Level 1, Exhibition site 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. WEDNESDAY | 08. OCTOBER 2014 7 WEDNESDAY | 08. OCTOBER 2014 8 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