24th ilb
5 – 14 Sep 2024 Program
9 – 18 Sep 2024 Young Program

The Catalogue

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The annually-published festival catalogue contains photos, biographies and selected bibliographies of all participating writers.

Since 2003 the authors have additionally been asked to answer a selected question in a concise and spontaneous way. In 2009 and 2008 we have inquired in the “Berlin.Views” of our guests. In the three years before we asked about their “writing space” and received engaging articles. In 2004 we left their thoughts on “Make answer, muse!” In 2003 the question was “What makes the poet tick?” The huge resonance as well as the creativity of the responses surpassed our expectations: notes on restaurant table cloths, photos, collages, drafts, anagrams, poems, aphorisms, short essays in wonderful handwriting and in one case an actual stone.

Catalogue 2020

Wie wollen wir leben?
Catalogue 2020
edited by Veruschka Götz, Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
163 pages
ISBN 978-3-947238-28-6
published in September 2020
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2019

About Sex
Catalogue 2019
edited by Veruschka Götz, Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
208 pages
ISBN 978-3-947238-18-7
published in September 2019
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2018

decolonizing wor:l:ds
The Catalogue 2018
edited by Veruschka Götz, Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
224 pages
ISBN 978-3-947238-09-5
published in September 2018
Verlag Vorwerk 8

 Catalogue 2017

Human Rights
The Catalogue 2017
edited by Veruschka Götz, Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
216 pages
ISBN 978-3-940384-97-3
published in September 2017
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2016

Democracy without Populism
The Catalogue 2016
edited by Veruschka Götz, Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
162 pages
ISBN 978-3-940384-88-1
published in September 2016
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2015

Refugees
The Catalogue 2015
edited by Veruschka Götz, Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
192 pages
ISBN 978-3-940384-78-2
published in September 2015
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2014

A Postcard to Edward Snowden
The Catalogue 2014
edited by Veruschka Götz, Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
192 pages
ISBN 978-3-940384-68-3
published in September 2014
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2013

Postcard to Europe
The Catalogue 2013
edited by Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
196 pages
ISBN 978-3-940384-60-7
published in September 2013
Verlag Vorwerk 8 

Catalogue 2012 

Europe now
The Catalogue 2012
edited by Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
208 pages
ISBN 978-3-940384-50-8
published in September 2012
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2011

Berlin Views
The Catalogue 2011
edited by Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
175 pages
ISBN 978-3-940384-43-0
published in September 2011
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2010

Berlin Views
The Catalogue 2010
edited by Claudia Jürgens and Ulrich Schreiber
263 pages // 10 €
ISBN 978-3-940384-36-2
published in September 2010
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2009

Berlin Views
The Catalogue 2009
edited by Joëlle Jobin and Ulrich Schreiber
236 pages // 10 €
ISBN 978-3-940384-27-0
published in September 2009
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2008

The motto of the 2008 festival catalogue is “Berlin. Views”. Our invited authors answer questions such as “What do you expect from Berlin? What experiences have you had?” with an abundance of often hand-written texts – poems, anecdotes, short essays and stories – along with sketches, photographs, collages and artistic illustrations. Their accounts take their place among Berlin observations and narratives of well-known literati. The poet Tim Liardet finds Berlin to be the “city of single-mindedness”. The author of children’s books Xosé A. Neira Cruz, meanwhile, travels to Berlin “with borrowed memories”, “with fascination for this city and the the obligation to write a story that has to be related by someone – perhaps even by me.”
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Berlin Views
The Catalogue 2008
edited by Hanno Depner and Ulrich Schreiber
192 pages // 15 €
ISBN 978-3-940384-17-1
published in September 2008
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2007

Writing Space III
The Catalogue 2007
edited by Hanno Depner and Ulrich Schreiber
264 pages // 10 €
ISBN 978-3-930916-94-8
published in September 2007
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2006

Writing space II
The Catalogue 2006
edited by Hanno Depner and Ulrich Schreiber
240 pages // 10 €
ISBN 3-930916-83-5
published in September 2006
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2005

Writing Space
The Catalogue 2005
edited by Hanno Depner and Ulrich Schreiber
256 pages // 10 €
ISBN 3-930916-78-9
published in September 2005
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2004

Make answer, muse!
The Catalogue 2004
edited by Ulrich Schreiber
240 pages // 10 €
ISBN 3-930916-67-3
published in September 2004
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2003

What makes the poet tick?
The Catalogue 2003
edited by Ulrich Schreiber
264 pages // 10 €
ISBN 3-930916-64-9
published in September 2003
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2002

Who am I, has become something different. What is there?
The Catalogue 2002
edited by Ulrich Schreiber
432 pages // 10 €
ISBN 3-930916-57-6
published in September 2002
Verlag Vorwerk 8

Catalogue 2001

Die Welt und ich haben gemeinsame Augen
The Catalogue 2001
edited by Ulrich Schreiber
446 pages // 29,90 € (sold out)
published in September 2001
Verlag Vorwerk 8