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

Victory City: Salman Rushdie in Conversation with Daniel Kehlmann

Pampa Kampana, an orphan girl in 14th century South India, is endowed with supernatural powers and is supposed to help women of the male-dominated world to play an equal role – in the »Victory City«. In a discussion with Salman Rushdie, Daniel Kehlmann presents the the author’s latest work, »Victory City« [translated into German by Bernhard Robben]. »Salman Rushdie’s novel, bursting with color and form, is a masterpiece of fabulosity, of narrative variety«. [NDR] [NDR] The author will be joining via livestream.

In collaboration with the Berliner Ensemble.

Hosted by Bernhard Robben.

Read by Cynthia Micas.

The event is in German and English.

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