Dear audience,
»Puritanism, I am afraid, is always with us« – the first festival week ended yesterday with Salman Rushdie’s live performance via broadcast at the Berliner Ensemble. In conversation with Daniel Kehlmann, Rushdie spoke about his latest novel »Victory City« and gave insights into its making.
In the morning, Armin Nassehi, Luisa Neubauer and Lora Anne Viola spoke about challenges to our democracy in the Kuppelhalle of silent green.
Here, in the evening, the German Prize for Nature Writing was awarded to Susanne Eules. Head of the ilb Program Simone Schröder welcomed the audience on behalf of the festival, literary critic Beate Tröger gave a eulogy, and Claudia Roth, Minister of State for Culture and Media, also attended the event and delivered a welcoming speech.
At the Collegium Hungaricum, Elisabeth Plessen wittily introduced us to her novel »The Woman in the Trees« alongside Alexander Lehnert.
»The only thing I have left is my art« – Victoria Lomasko
Irina Rastorgueva and Victoria Lomasko spoke to Vladimir Velminski about the situation of Russian artists in exile.
»I wrote a story about a man that shouldn’t have a story« –Mohammed Alnaas
The evening concluded with a reading by IPAF laureate Mohammed Alnaas and sold-out book tables of Elizabeth Duval’s »After Trans. Sex, Gender and the Left« at the Instituto Cervantes.
