MCLC: 12th Intl Literature Festival

[Denton, Kirk]

MCLC LIST
From: kirk (denton.2 at osu.edu)
Subject: 12 Intl Literature Festival
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English Version:

 
As of today: Advance booking for the 12th international literature
festival berlin!
 
We are pleased to announce this year’s edition of the ilb, which will take
place from 4 through 16 September 2012.

 
Buy your tickets in advance from today, 6 August 2012, online
viawww.berlinerfestspiele.de <http://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/>, or by
phone at +49 30 2548 9100

 
Please check our website www.literaturfestival.com
<http://www.literaturfestival.com/> for all events currently confirmed,
and for the complete programme as of 22 August 2012.

 
The ilb itinerary 2012:
 

Liao Yiwu, Chinese writer in exile and winner of the Peace Prize of the
German Book Trade in 2012, will deliver this year’s opening speech on 4
September at 6 p.m. at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. Liao Yiwu is also
the spirit behind an exhibition showing works by Ai Weiwei, Liao Yiwu, Liu
Xia, Meng Huang, and Tsering Dorjee. “Visible and invisible prisons” will
be presented in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele from 3 September on.
 

One hour before the opening of the festival, the whole city will be turned
into a stage: All citizens of the city are invited to participate in a
public reading performance. Berlin reading is scheduled for 4 September at
5 p.m. Chose a location and read from your favourite book. The performance
is meant to be a public welcome ceremony for the 183 authors from 58
countries, who will join us for the ilb of 2012.
 
The ilb programme section Literatures of the world has invited Isabel
Allende, Amir Hassan Cheheltan, Ha Jin, Chad Harbach, Michel Houellebecq,
Herta Müller, Péter Nádas, Kiran Nagarkar, Laura Restrepo, Éric-Emmanuel
Schmitt, Kyung-Sook Shin, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, and Kyung-Sook Shin.

 
In view of the economic and financial crisis, the festival has arranged a
“Literary bail-out for Europe”, and will, thus, have a focus on Europe
Now. Enjoy the highlights in the second week of the 12th ilb in a series
of public debates about current European topics, and readings. Forty
well-known writers from Europe and other continents will join us for this
initiative. The opening lecture will be delivered by Karl Schlögel on 14
September at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. For further details please
see the Focus programme, which will be published as part of the festival
programme of the ilb on 22 August.

 
The ilb will also and once again be a forum for political debates. In the
programme section Reflections Georg Seeßlen and Markus Metz will discuss
“Civil disobedience”, Richard Sennett and Richard David Precht talk about
societal cohesion. and the liberalisation / decriminalization of drugs
will be on our agenda, too.

 
One section of our programme will be dedicated to the mutual inspiration
of Art and Literature. Jonathan Meese and Durs Grünbein will discuss the
“Dictatorship of art” and their works, and Norbert Bisky will meet the
Icelandic writer Bjarni Bjarnason. Galleries in Berlin will participate
with a number interesting events. As in the past year the ilb will present
Graphic Novels from Europe.

 
International Children and Youth Literature is a programme geared to a
young audience and will present extraordinary books from all over the
world. Chen Jianghong, John Green and other famous writers and
illustrators in this segment will introduce their works. “Big Bang and
chocolate lions” is the title of a soirée devoted to books for young
readers. Salah Naoura, Adam Jaromir and Gerald Jatzek will participate.
 
Admire the art of reading, and listen to Frank Arnold, Burghart Klaußner,
Joachim Król, Elisabeth Trissenaar und other actors and actresses. At the
occasion of the 50thanniversary of the day Hermann Hesse died, Marie
Colbin will read ‘Siddharta’ in a six-hour reading in our programme
section Speak, memory on 9 August. We will also commemorate the late
novelist Antonio Tabucchi and the great theatre-maker Ivan Nagel.
 
Enclosed please find the first fanfold of the 12th ilb, which includes
many items of the programme. The booklet including all events will be
available from 22 August 2012 on. You will also find it online via
www.literaturfestival.com <http://www.literaturfestival.com/> from that
day on.

 
 
The ticket prices (the festival ticket for all events from 4 to 16
September costs 50/ 40/ 30€, the daily pass is available at a price of 15/
12/ 8€) are meant as an invitation to become a permanent ilb guest at the
Haus der Berliner Festspiele, and to enjoy the particular atmosphere of
the “festival of discovery” (FAZ).
 

 
The international literature festival wants to thank all sponsors, in
particular the Capital Cultural Fund for granting the basic funding of the
festival. We should like to thank the Mercator Foundation for promoting
the “Literary bail-out for Europe” project. And we also want to express
warm words of gratitude to Škoda Auto. The company has been sponsoring the
festival for eleven years, and is the main sponsor of the International
Children and Youth Literature programme.

 
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