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

Programmsparten: Speak, Memory

Annett Gröschner

born in 1964 in Magdeburg, has lived in Berlin since 1983. She studied German language and literature in Berlin and Paris. The award-winning writer, journalist, lecturer, and performer publishes poetry, prose, documentary literature, radio features, and plays. She is best known for her novels »Moskauer Eis« (2000; tr: Moscow Ice)

Wolfgang Kubin

The sinologist, poet and essayist Wolfgang Kubin was born in Celle/Germany in 1945. He passed his Abitur grammar school leaving certificate at the Dionysianum in Rheine in 1966, and studied Protestant theology, and later Japanology, German language and literature, philosophy, and sinology in Münster, Vienna and Bochum. He wrote his

Wilhelm Droste

Wilhelm Droste, born in 1953, is an author, translator, literary scholar and long-time coffee house operator in Budapest. He taught German literature at Eötvös Loránd University for more than 25 years and is today one of the most important ambassadors of Hungarian culture in the German-speaking world. Among other things,

Verena Auffermann

born in1944 in Höxter. After apprenticing as a bookseller and studying art history, she worked as a lecturer and publisher, making a name for herself as a critic in particular. Auffermann writes for »Die Zeit« and the »Süddeutsche Zeitung«. The literary anthology »Leidenschaften. 99 Autorinnen der Weltliteratur« (2009; tr. Passions.

Verena Lueken

born 1955 in Frankfurt am Main, is a journalist, critic, author. She studied sociology, film studies, and German in Frankfurt am Main and dance in Philadelphia and New York. She worked as an editor in the feature section of the »FAZ« for many years and was the cultural correspondent for

Uwe Schütte

born in 1967, studied German Literature, English Literature and History in Munich. He went to the University of East Anglia in Norwich in 1992, completing his PhD in 1997 supervised by W. G. Sebald on »Die Archive des Schweigens« (tr. The archives of silence) by Austrian author Gerhard Roth. Schütte

Uwe Wittstock

Uwe Wittstock was born in Leipzig in 1955. Literary editor of the »Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung«, 1980–1989, and editor for the S. Fischer Verlag for 10 years. He worked for »Die Welt« before becoming literature editor of »Focus« magazine in 2010. Theodor Wolff Prize for journalism, 1989. Recent publications were »Nach

Tíméa Tankó

Tíméa Tankó was born in Leipzig in 1978 and spent her childhood in Hungary and Germany. She studied cultural studies and translation (French, Spanish) in Leipzig. Since 2003 she has been translating Hungarian literature into German, including Antal Szerb, Krisztián Grecsó, Miklós Vajda, István Kemény, and Andor Endre Gelléri. In

Temye Tesfu

Temye Tesfu is an author and performance poet. As such, they can be found in the German-speaking world and beyond; at literature festivals and in bars, in basements and at conferences. Tesfu is a founding member of the literary collective »parallelgesellschaft« and the spoken word series of the same name.

Tanja Dückers

born in 1968, is a writer and journalist. She has written 16 books, including four novels, four collections of poetry, short stories, essays, children’s books, and two theater plays. She has received numerous foreign scholarships and was, among others, a guest at the Villa Decius in Krakow, a Lenka-Reinerova-Stipendium grant

Susanne Wolff

Susanne Wolff, born in 1973, is a stage and film actress. She completed her training from 1994 to 1998 at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien in Hanover. Afterwards Wolff performed at the Thalia Theater Hamburg and was a member of the ensemble at the Deutsches Theater Berlin from

Susanne Lange

born in 1964 in Berlin, wrote her doctoral thesis on contemporary Latin American and German authors. Was a visiting lecturer at Tübingen and Bogotá. Has translated the works of García Lorca, Rulfo, Vargas Llosa, Marías, Cervantes, and others, since 1992. Is the recipient of the Spanish Embassy Translation Prize (2005),