Read! Berlin 2016: The Literature Festival Starts Next Friday
The Second Edition of Read! Berlin Will Happen From the 22th to the 29th of April
April 19th, 2016
Read! Berlin, the Literature Festival, will have its second edition next week. With some exceptions, all the events will happen at the Galli Theater, and cost 8€ each. From the 25th to the 29th, there will always be a free-entrance Shared Reading event in the morning (at 11:00, with Thomas Böhm), and one in the afternoon (at 17:00, with Carsten Sommerfeldt). Apart from that, every day there will be different events, like book releases, debates, and literary walks.
The first event, on the 22th, at 19:30, will be a Conversation under the Refugees topic. In German and Arabic, it will have Rasha Abbas and Assaf Alassaf as guests. There will also be a moderator and a translator.
The second event, on the 23th, at 14:00, will be a walk with Thomas Böhm, at the Berliner Dom, who will explain about the Dada performance that happened there in 1918. Later that afternoon, at 19:00, the Galli Theater will host the book release of “Made in Germany”. Besides the premiere, there will be a talk between Jagoda Marinic, the author, and Christian Stahl. At 21:00, there will be a conversation with the author Owen Sheers (in English and German).
The third day of the festival, the 24th, will count with a debate at 11:00, with the author Michael Lüders; a literary walk at 14:00, with the author Helmut Kuhn, through the places that take place at his romance “Gehwegschäden”. Finally, at 17h, at the Galli Theater, there will be a philosophical discussion with Thomas Böhm.
On the 25th, at 14:00, there will be a free guided tour through the historical collections of the Central and Regional Library of Berlin. At 19:00, the Galli Theater will host a literary debate with Jörg Genau and Kristof Magnusson. At 21:00, there will be a reading session with Fristzi Haberlandt and Britta Jürgs.
On the 26th, at 14:00, there will be a literary walk with Wolfgang Feyerabend through the Berliner landscape of backyards and its stories. At 19:00, Ebru Taşdemir will receive the author Katharina Winkler for a talk on her work; and at 21:00, there will be a “Literary Sofa” with the author Linda Rachel Sabiers and Christian Stahl.
On the 27th, at 14:00, literary walk with Helmut Kuhn will take place through the places mentioned in the novel “Blood Brothers”, by Ernst Haffner. At 20:00, there will be a literary and political discussion about Egypt, with Annika Reich, Ihab Kassem, Dina El-Sharnouby and Frank Alva Buecheler (in German, English and Arabic, with a translator).
On the 28th, at 14:00, there will be a literary walk with Hermut Kuhn, through the places mentioned in the memoir of Samson “Cioma” Schönhaus. At 19:00, there will be an economic talk with Stefan Mekiffer and Philip Grassmann; and at 21:00, a “Poetry Night” will happen, in the company of Monika Rinck and Hendrik Jackson.
The last day, the 29th, will count with a literary walk at 14:00, with Ulrich Gutmair; a literary conversation with the author Kiran Nagarkar, at 20:00; and a party, at 22:00, with the DJ Ipek feat. Ceyhun Kaya SoSo.
See more at: http://www.berlinglobal.org/index.php?read-berlin-2016-the-literature-festival-starts-next-friday
