ilb booklet 2016 - Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin

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
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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-WeissStiftung 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.
Ticket Office: Mon–Thu: 8:00–18:00 and Fri 8:00–17:00. For additional information,
as well as for advance sales and more information on the guests, program, events
and ticket prices, please send an email to: [email protected] or call 030 27 87
86-66/-70.
TICKET SALES
The complete program will be available from August 24, 2016.
TICKET OFFICE
Haus der Berliner Festspiele
Ticket Office
Schaperstraße 24
10719 Berlin
GERMANY
Box Office Hours
Mon – Sat 14:00 – 18:00
To Order Online
www.berlinerfestspiele.de
The processing fee is 2 euros per order.
By Telephone
+49 (0)30 25 48 91 00
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Mon – Fri 10:00 – 18:00
ADMISSION CHARGE (unless otherwise stated)
Regular | Concessions | Students
Opening Event
12 | 8 | 4 euros
Single tickets
8 | 6 | 4 euros
Day pass
18 | 14 | 8 euros
Festival pass
60 | 50 | 40 euros
The box office opens one hour before the event is scheduled to begin.
INTERNATIONALES LITERATURFESTIVAL BERLIN
Chausseestraße 5, 10115 Berlin, Germany
T: 030 27 87 86-0 | F: 030 27 87 86-85
[email protected]
www.literaturfestival.com
Festival and day passes are valid for events held at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele
(apart from morning events of the Children’s and Young Adult Literature section).
Admission cannot be guaranteed for events that are sold out. Tickets for events being
held at other locations can be ordered online or purchased from the box office of that
venue. The internationales literaturfestival berlin is managed by the Peter-Weiss-Stiftung
für Kunst and Politik e.V. It is funded by the Capital Culture Fund.
Cover — Sunandini Banerjee
Translation — Cressida Joyce

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