Insight Exile – The fifth day of the festival is dedicated to a theme that has shaped the ilb for 25 years: exile in literature. What does it mean to be forced to leave your homeland and write in a foreign country? At the Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation,
In Europe, distrust of publicly funded art and culture appears to be growing. Right-wing populist campaigns denounce it as » woke« or elitist, while progressive voices criticize its instrumentalization – partly the result of excessive agenda-setting they themselves have encouraged. Artistic freedom is under threat from several sides. What might
Additional Event with Mieko Kawakami Another opportunity to experience the author is available as part of the Young Programme:“黄色い家 (Kiiroi Ie)” – reading, talk, and Q&A with Mieko Kawakami. When Hana comes across an article about a crime, she is shocked to recognize the accused – Kimiko. Twenty years earlier,
Für Autor:innen, die ihre gewohnte Umgebung verlassen mussten, ist Schreiben weit mehr als das Verfassen von Texten an einem anderen Ort. Es ist eine existenzielle Erfahrung, die sich in der Sprache, den Themen und Perspektiven niederschlägt. Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Verlust und Neufindung findet Schreiben im Exil neue Heimaten, ohne Herkunft
How do literature festivals address challenges like AI and declining literacy? What defines good curation? The Festival directors Marta Czarnecka (Poland // Literacki Sopot Festival), Govind Deecee (India // Kerala Literature Festival), Federico Eisner (Chile // Festival Poesía y Música PM, Santiago), Yuliia Кozlovets (Ukraine // Arsenal Festival, Kyiv) und
A wide range of exhibitors – including Berlin-based comic publishers, artists, and zine creators – will showcase their work and look forward to engaging with graphic novel fans and the audience. Books, comics, and prints will be available for purchase. Artist Alley is organized in collaboration with ComicInvasion Berlin.comicinvasion.berlinThe exhibitors
Let’s Glow! Together with Tropen Verlag, we’re taking our festival motto literally and making it shine, shimmer, and glow as the festival draws to a close with DJ Sarah Farina and JUICY . After ten days of readings, discussions, and new ideas, we’re giving our heads and our bodies a
Are you part of a Berlin book club and want to attent the ilb together? Then join our Book Club Special! Ahead of the festival, read one of three exciting new releases from this year’s program – a novel, a comic, or a work of literary non-fiction by our Curator
Would you go through hell for your professor? Probably not – even metaphorically. But Alice and Peter, two students of analytical magic at Cambridge University, take a different view. In »Katabasis«, they descend to the underworld to bring their professor, killed in a failed experiment, back to the realm of
Uncanny, haunting, and intimate, Schweblin’s short stories read like modern fairy tales. »In Samanta Schweblin’s hands a single story becomes a theory of just about everything.« [Colum McCann] In »Good and Evil and Other Stories« [trans. Megan McDowell] she weaves together tales of family, grief, and regret with phantasmagoric imagery
Marian Flanders, 41, runs a designer fashion boutique in West Berlin called the Kenting Beach Store. When his mother, a former top model, dies after a long illness, it marks the start of a quiet transformation: travel, flirting, family ties, and tentative new beginnings. With laconic warmth and crystalline prose,
A weekend at the country estate of his scholarship sponsors changes the life of 13-year-old Dave Win – and marks the beginning of a long rivalry with their son, Giles. Spanning five decades, Hollinghurst tells the story of a gay actor living in the shadow of social constraints, and of
