Young people don’t just attend the ilb — they help shape it. Here you can find projects in which young people have creatively engaged with the festival.
Four young people interviewed guests from the ilb’s Young Program. Salomee, Karolina, Lou, and Anton spoke with Sid Sharp, Javier Zamora, Dayeon Auh, and Henriette Reisner. A project by the LiteraturInitiative Berlin in cooperation with the Young Program of the international literature festival berlin. Asked & Answered!Salomee in Conversation with Sid Sharp Salomee interviews Canadian […]
To mark the festival’s 2025 anniversary year, the motto GLOW let young voices shine — through a poetry competition for children and young adults. The submissions were truly impressive: poems in German, English, Arabic, and Hindi, some even illustrated. In three age categories, the three most outstanding poems were honored. The first-place winners each receive […]
Partnerships with the writing competitions lyrix, THEO, and TjA, as well as the Vorlesewettbewerb (Reading Competition), ensure that young people at the international literature festival berlin don’t just sit in the audience — they take the stage, too. The winners of these competitions appear in the Young ilb’s supporting program for selected readings, showcasing their […]
The international literature festival berlin at the FutureLab of FEZ-Berlin: To mark the 25th anniversary of the ilb, class 8a from Campus Efeuweg Community School created a trailer for the Young ilb Program under the guidance of Dyaa Naim and Carola Mücke. In the workshop, the students learned the basics of animation and film editing […]
