It’s showtime! A quarter of a century ilb — and we’re celebrating with a literary anniversary revue. Together with Berlin authors, longtime collaborators, and the best audience in the world, we look back on 25 years of festival history. Amid glamor and glitter, together with Olga Bubich, we’ll be sharing quirky facts about the ilb, baking a birthday cake, and singing a serenade. Meanwhile, we’ll practice the art of confidence with Gabriele von Arnim to gear up for another 25 years of ilb. Francesca Melandri will give tips on rhetoric for giving birthday speeches, and Nino Bulling will be illustrating the events live from the drawing table. Meanwhile, our two wonderful hosts, Katy Derbyshire and Alexander Lehnert, will ensure that everything will turn out differently in the end anyway. Our anniversary show — cute, unpredictable, and always from the heart!
We would like to thank the former festival colleagues who helped plan the revue: Beatrice Faßbender, Miriam Gabriela Möllers, Jana Thiele, Christoph Willmitzer.
The anniversary program is made possible by the LOTTO Foundation Berlin.
With Olga Bubich, Nino Bulling, Gabriele von Arnim
Moderated by Katy Derbyshire, Alexander Lehnert
With music by AFAR ODEA
The event is in German and English.
