Programme ilb 2011

Manos Kontoleon: »Powerless Angel«

09:30—10:30

Maite Carranza: »War of the Witches«

12:00—13:00

Tahar Ben Jelloun: What can literature accomplish? The Arab Spring and Writing

Morocco / France | Inauguration

18:00—19:00

Ilija Trojanow, Hans Huyssen and the Ensemble cosí facciamo – A concert reading of »EisTau«

20:30—21:00

Thursday, 8 September 2011

Chen Chih-Yuan: »Guji-Guji« and »On My Way to Buy Eggs«

09:00—10:00

Manos Kontoleon: »Aspassia’s Brother«

09:30—10:30

DBC Pierre: »Vernon God Little«

12:30—13:30

Tahar Ben Jelloun: »The Fruits of Hard Work«

12:30—13:30

Liao Yiwu and Omar Akbar: World of cities – Cities of the world. Urban realities

16:30—17:30

Miguel Syjuco and Madeleine Thien on Post-Colonial literature

18:00—19:00

Justizvollzugsanstalt Tegel

DBC Pierre

18:00—19:00

Peter Stephan Jungk and his comedy about the relationship to his heart

18:00—19:00

José Saramago. Stylist, maverick and admonisher: The Nobel Prize winner and his last novel, »Cain«

19:00—20:00

Deutsches Theater, hall

Antonia S. Byatt and Julia Franck: Experiments in new ways of life at the end of the 19th century

19:30—20:30

New German Voices

19:30—20:30

Poetry Night I

20:00—23:00

The International SLAM!Revue

20:00—21:00

Festsaal Kreuzberg

Miguel Syjuco and his quest through the post-colonial Philippines

21:00—22:00

Rebecca Horn: Moon Mirror Journey

21:00—22:30

Husein Chawich, Günther Orth and Tahar Ben Jelloun on the Arab Revolution in books: How the Arab Revolt began in literature, and what the book market has done with it.

22:00—23:00

Haralampi G. Oroschakoff: »The Paris Bar, or: if they aren't elegant, then at least they're trying to stand out«

22:30—23:30

Friday, 9 September 2011

Edward van de Vendel: »The Boy Who Found Happiness«

09:00—10:00

Gerður Kristný: »The Garden«

09:30—10:30

Chirikure Chirikure: A touch of Africa …

12:30—13:30

Tahar Ben Jelloun: »Islam Explained«

12:30—13:30

Truman Capote: The exceptional artist in an interview

15:00—16:00

Omair Ahmad: his book about the world of Muslims in India

17:30—18:30

Patricia Cornwell: Kay Scarpetta's newest case reveals her darkest secrets

18:00—19:00

Marie Luise Knott: Unlearning and the Eros of language in Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger

18:15—19:15

Peter Stephan Jungk on Franz Werfel and the Armenians

19:00—20:00

Lepsiushaus Potsdam

Javier Cercas: A moving snapshot of a dramatic moment in Spanish history

19:00—20:00

DBC Pierre: A world-weary idealist celebrates decadence

19:30—20:30

Ángel de la Calle: »Modotti, a Woman of the 20th Century«

20:00—21:00

Südblock

Poetry Night II

20:00—21:00

Pankaj Mishra and Tahar Ben Jelloun on the consequences of the terrorist attacks on New York

20:45—21:45

Three lessons about China

21:00—22:00

Iceland’s Artists and the Sagas

21:30—23:00

Saturday, 10 September 2011

Graphic Novels I

10:00—11:00

Courtney Meredith: »Voice as Power and Performance«

11:00—12:00

Graphic Novels II

14:00—15:00

Omar Akbar and Samuel Shimon: World of cities – Cities of the world. Damascus-Beirut-Cairo

15:00—16:00

The Berlusconisation of Europe

16:30—17:30

Tomáš Zmeškal: The fate of multi-ethnic East Europeans during the Communist era

18:30—19:30

Nam Le: the feeling of being lost on a refugee boat

18:30—19:30

Javier Cercas and Jordi Soler: Literature and Memory

19:30—20:30

Instituto Cervantes

Madeleine Thien: Displacement, loss and the diversity of life

20:00—21:00

25 years of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Literarischer Gesellschaften

20:00—21:00

Literaturhaus Berlin

Poetry Night III

20:00—23:00

Melinda Nadj Abonji and her family's tale between the Balkan War and a new home in Switzerland

21:00—22:00