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with Sophia Burtscher Matthias Brandt
Spring 1958: Ingeborg Bachmann – celebrated poet, winner of the Prize of Group of 47 and Der Spiegel cover star – is about to bring her radio play “Der gute Gott von Manhattan” to the air. Max Frisch, busy at the time putting on the production of “The Arsonists”, writes to the “young poetess” to tell her how excited he is about her radio play. With Bachmann’s response in June 1958, a correspondence begins which – from their first meeting until long after their separation – gives witness to the lives, love and suffering of one of the best-known couples of the German-language literature scene. The topics covered in… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Tue. 17 October 2023
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Lichtburg Essen
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
with Bärbel Schäfer Claudia Michelsen Rufus Beck
Being born is a fate that all humans share. Yet birth and pregnancy are topics that were long ignored, or coyly circumvented, by philosophy and literature. But the topic “having children” offers great potential for comedy, drama, happiness, desperation and anger. When a baby’s on the way, nearly all aspects of life will soon change: one’s view of the world, body, relationships, friendships, work and earnings – and, quite often, the relationship to one’s own parents. Claudia Michelsen, Rufus Beck and Bärbel Schäfer approach this topic with lots of humor and explore the political aspects of this personal… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Tue. 17 October 2023
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Sign language Available
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- Assistance dogs welcome Available
with Rufus Beck
This year marks 25 years since “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling was first published in German. Everything that has happened since can only be explained by magic! lit.kid.RUHR is celebrating this anniversary with a reading by Rufus Beck, whose unforgettable voice has brought to life the characters Harry, Hermione, Ron, Dumbledore, Snape and He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named in the audiobooks. This event will feature funny and exciting passages from the various volumes. The agenda includes an exciting Quidditch match and the Weasley family’s chaotic visit to the Dursleys – and Hagrid an… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 18 October 2023
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Sign language Available
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with Harald Welzer Susanne Fritz
Social psychologist Harald Welzer, who recently co-authored “The Fourth Estate” with Richard David Precht, is an expert in transformation and an avid observer of the fault lines of society. His analysis of the current situation is understandably critical. Decreasing election turnout, dwindling church membership and falling TV viewership and newspaper circulation show that many of us no longer feel that German politics and media have anything to say to us. At the same time, multiple crises and increasingly unreliable public services – transport, schools, bureaucracy – are intensifying the public’… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event End of Times – Harald Welzer’s new, fundamental analysis of society
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- Date: Wed. 18 October 2023
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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with Deborah Feldman Shelly Kupferberg
Deborah Feldman grew up in the Satmar Hasidic community in the New York neighborhood of Williamsburg. Her escape from this ultra-Orthodox community and her emigration to Berlin were the topic of her impressive biography “Unorthodox”. It became an international best seller and was adapted into a Netflix miniseries. In her new book, Jew Fetish, Feldman explores her cultural heritage and Jewish identity in the present day: “What did it mean, that this ‘becoming-German’ I’d worked so hard at was pushing me back towards my Jewishness again, like an obligation that could no longer be avoided?” This book is a ple… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Jew Fetish. With Deborah Feldman
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- Date: Wed. 18 October 2023
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Schauspielhaus Bochum
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with Anna Thalbach Michaela Karl
Today she is adored by readers worldwide, but Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) was unpopular during her lifetime. Born in New Zealand, she came to London in the early twentieth century with the goal of becoming a famous writer. She caused a stir – and trouble – among the legendary Bloomsbury group. Virginia Woolf and co. considered her part of the “literary underworld”, while Mansfield considered herself a genius. Blessed with creativity, talent and humor, she created an outstanding body of work in a breathtakingly short time, while keeping her numerous demons at bay. In “Live and Let Live”, best-sellin… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 18 October 2023
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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with Andrej Kurkow Sonia Mikich
He’s one of Ukraine’s greatest authors; his books became best sellers in Germany and have won international awards. For his second book in the historical crime series about a police officer named Samson, Andrey Kurkov (“Diary of an Invasion”) returns to Kyiv in 1919 amid revolution, civil war and hunger. In “Serdce - ne mjaso” [“Samson and the Stolen Heart”], the young investigator must not only prevent illegal meat sales but also free his girlfriend Nadezhda from her captives. The author, who is also President of PEN Ukraine, will join Sonia Mikich (former Moscow correspondent and editor-in-chief… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Andrey Kurkov on Samson, the past and the present in Ukraine
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- Date: Wed. 18 October 2023
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Halle 6, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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with Fatih Çevikkollu Aladin El-Mafaalani
Fatih Çevikkollus Mutter litt im Alter an einer Psychose und war nicht mehr gesellschaftsfähig. Nach ihrem Tod fragte sich der bekannte Kabarettist und Schauspieler, ob es einen Zusammenhang zwischen ihren psychischen Problemen und dem Schicksal als sogenannte Gastarbeiterin in den Sechzigerjahren in Deutschland gab. Nun erzählt er vom Leben seiner türkischen Familie und darüber, wie eine Kartonwand zum Symbol für den Traum der Rückkehr in die Heimat wird. Es lohnte sich weder, die Kartons auszupacken, noch, die deutsche Sprache zu lernen – schließlich sollte es bald zurückgehen. Was macht es mit Mensch… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 18 October 2023
- Time: 21:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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with Shirin Sojitrawalla Navid Kermani
“Germany listens when Kermani opens his mouth” (SZ Magazin). And Germany reads when he publishes a new novel. This latest one tells the story of an author at the peak of her success and the nadir of her life: Her marriage has failed, her mother is dead, and suddenly even her envisioned life as a public intellectual is being called into question. The plan had been for her husband to handle childcare and the household while she sorted out the world’s suffering. In his new novel, The Alphabet up to S, award-winning and best-selling author Navid Kermani expertly links the most mundane things with the g… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Navid Kermani and the Alphabet up to S
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- Date: Wed. 18 October 2023
- Time: 21:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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Biografien des Bergbaus
with Dinçer Güçyeter Mithu Sanyal
»Eine Literatur der Klasse L. Dinçer Güçyeter, Gabelstaplerfahrer, Kind anatolischer Einwanderer, hat einen großartigen Roman über Herkunft und Familie geschrieben«, titelt DIE ZEIT. »Dieser Autor ist wie vom Himmel gefallen, eben dieser Roman auch«, schwärmt die Kulturzeit. »Man muss dieses eigenwillige, raue Buch unbedingt lesen«, unterstreicht die FAZ. Kein Wunder also, dass Autor, Theatermacher und Verleger Dinçer Güçyeter für seinen Roman mit dem Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse ausgezeichnet wurde. Unser Deutschlandmärchen ist eine Familiengeschichte in vielen Stimmen: Frauen mehrerer Generationen und… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Unser Deutschlandmärchen. Mit Dinçer Güçyeter und Mithu Sanyal
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- Date: Thu. 19 October 2023
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Sign language Available
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with Bärbel Höhn Lea Bonasera
Lea Bonasera (25), one of the founders of the activist group “Letzte Generation”, gets annoyed by disparaging descriptors like “climate-gluer” and “eco-terrorist” because she’s absolutely convinced that civil disobedience can be an antidote to powerlessness. In The Time for Courage Is Now!, she draws an impressive arc between theory and practice, writes about her experiences in previous protests and takes a scientific approach to the history and aims of civil disobedience. Bärbel Höhn (70) served as Environment Minister in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and has always fought for equality and environment… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 19 October 2023
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Halle 6, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Sign language Available
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
with Christian Schärf Judith Hermann
A childhood spent in unconventional circumstances, the divided Berlin, family ties and affinities and long, happy summers at the seaside. With her debut novel “Summerhouse, Later”, Judith Hermann set a new tone in German-language contemporary literature and became one of the most important literary voices. In her latest work, We’d Have Told Each Other Everything, Hermann discusses her writing and her life and what holds them together and connects them. Truth, invention, and secrets - where does a story begin, and where does it end? How dependable is our memory, how closely do our dreams resem… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Judith Hermann - We’d Have Told Each Other Everything
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- Date: Thu. 19 October 2023
- Time: 19:30
- Location: KAUE Gelsenkirchen
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
with Andreas Dorau Sven Regener
Musician Andreas Dorau is a master of the eccentric and the absurd. With subtlety and depth, he tells stories about himself and his adventures, not only in the arts scene. Those who know Sven Regener’s novels (“Berlin Blues”) will understand why he wants to dive in to Andreas Dorau’s brilliant universe and capture it in literature. In this co-authored book, there is a king of hypnosis whom Dorau visits to finally discover what he thinks deep down about his old friend Fred vom Jupiter, panic attacks that send him into a disastrous state of confusion, a musical called the “Sealion King” and a woman with … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Sven Regener, Andreas Dorau and the Woman with the Arm
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- Date: Thu. 19 October 2023
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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Limited free parking is available in the underground car park of Sparkasse Essen (Entry Kibbelstraße). Please use the elevator "Green".
with Katrin Schumacher Wilhelm Bode Judith Schalansky
You think you know everything there is to know about the resilient rabbit, its astonishing harmlessness, remarkable fertility and significance in mythology and cultural history? And you’re extremely well informed about the fox – the rabbit’s natural enemy – who now inhabits our urban environments and is considered a charming, cunning rogue? We promise you that this evening will teach you lots more about the two popular creatures. Because we’re bringing together the experts Katrin Schumacher (foxes) and Wilhelm Bode (rabbits) with writer and “Naturkunde” publisher Judith Schalansky to reveal new secrets a… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 19 October 2023
- Time: 20:00
- Location: 9. Etage der Zentrale der Sparkasse Essen
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Biografien des Bergbaus
with Jörg Thadeusz Marie-Christine Knop
Edgar, whose father was killed in the war, is being raised by his mother and uncle on Steinhammer Straße in Dortmund in the 1950s. He is expected to take over the barbershop eventually or, if he misbehaves, sent into the mines. He, his childhood sweetheart Nelly and his best friend Jürgen all dreaming of leaving behind the impoverished narrowness of their neighborhood. When Edgar gets the opportunity to learn window dressing and finds patrons, the door to the Düsseldorf art scene opens up for him ... Jörg Thadeusz, who himself lived for a while on Steinhammer Straße in Lütgendortmund, has writt… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event “Artist, are you crazy?” Jörg Thadeusz on life in post-war Dortmund
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- Date: Fri. 20 October 2023
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Halle 6, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
with Jens Dirksen Ralf Rothmann
“On the highway overpasses of my youth, at the edge of the town, drunk on yearning, I always felt left behind – while below me everyone was speeding off into the distance”, wrote author Ralf Rothmann, a native of Oberhausen, in one of his early notes. His collection of notes entitled Theory of Rain is a “treasure trove; a book you could open on a random page and reliably find a surprising observation or an interesting episode” (Deutschlandfunk Kultur). It contains personal and lyrical memories and snapshots of the author’s life; tiny, clever miniatures that make up a poetic and essay-style journal. Wi… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Ralf Rothmann - Theory of Rain
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- Date: Fri. 20 October 2023
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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News from the region
with Lisa Roy Sümeyra Kaya
Arielle Freytag is in her early thirties, and she has “made it”. She grew up in Katernberg, a “troubled” neighborhood in the city of Essen, but now has a highly paid job as a social media manager in Dusseldorf. But then a bout of depression throws her off course and for the first time in 12 years she goes back to the place where she grew up. Two girls from the neighborhood have been missing for days – a painful reminder to Arielle of her own mother, who disappeared without trace 24 years ago. In her socially critical novel No Good Story, Lisa Roy explores the topics of family, origin and the search fo… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event No Good Story with Lisa Roy
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- Date: Fri. 20 October 2023
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Literaturhaus Oberhausen / Gdanska Theater
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with Philipp Oehmke Campino
The origin story of Philipp Oehmke’s powerful family saga could have come from a script for “White Lotus” or “Succession”: A group of well-off Germans in their mid-20s to mid-70s, standing on the banks of the Hudson River near New York in Robert Irwin’s architectural museum garden – yelling at each other in German, some of them are crying. It was the perfect prompt to undertake an in-depth examination of families and their structures. The result is the novel Schönwald, a story of two generations who never learned to speak to each other – and who are connected by a major secret. While Ruth Schönwald strugg… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Schönwald. With Philipp Oehmke and Campino
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- Date: Fri. 20 October 2023
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Sign language Available
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- Assistance dogs welcome Available
with Maria Schrader
In “Mirror Story”, Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016) tells the life story of a woman backwards. For this book, the Austrian author won the Prize of Group of 47 in 1952. Her novel “The Greater Hope” (1948) is considered a milestone in German-language literature, an artistic web of dreams, myths and history, told from the perspective of a girl trying to survive while on the run. Ilse Aichinger’s thoughts and feelings revolve around the Holocaust, loss and falling silent. She searches for the “bad words, not the pretty sentences in nice journals” and yet she always hits the right note. This is also true of Maria S… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event “Silence! Let her talk!” Maria Schrader reads Ilse Aichinger
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- Date: Fri. 20 October 2023
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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with Donat Blum Joris Bas Backer Mithu Sanyal
“A sometimes enjoyable, sometimes difficult read which encourages deliberation, and in a very personal and individual manner, explores what it means to be a man, especially outside of the norm, clichés, and ascriptions,” wrote newspaper Berliner Morgenpost about the anthology *Oh Boy: Männlichkeiten heute [“Oh Boy: Masculinity/-ies today”]. In the book, 19 influential contemporary authors explore their views of the broadening term “masculinity.” The result: courageous self-questioning, touching confessions and educational insights – a polyphonic stock-taking of a topic that needs rethinking. Publisher Donat… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 20 October 2023
- Time: 21:00
- Location: Halle 6, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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Eingang zum Karl Ernst Osthaus-Saal über Kahrstr. 16.
with Florian Illies Claudia Dichter
No German painter triggers emotions like Caspar David Friedrich. Even today, his evening skies remain icons of yearning; he inspired Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” and Walt Disney’s “Bambi”. But Goethe was so angered by the puzzling melancholy of his pictures that he wanted to smash them on the edge of a table. The Museum Folkwang has important pieces of Friedrich’s work in its permanent collection. In The Magic of Silence, his epic journey through time, the art connoisseur and brilliant storyteller Florian Illies (“1913: The Year Before the Storm”) tells the adventurous story of Friedrich’s paintings. Countles… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Florian Ilies and the Magic Of Silence
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- Date: Sat. 21 October 2023
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Museum Folkwang, Karl Ernst Osthaus-Saal
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- Sign language Available
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
Biographies of mining
with Anna Schudt Dietmar Bär Thomas Böhm
The music played by scrap metal collectors as they traversed the streets. Games of skat in the little summerhouse in the garden. The black rings around the eyes of the miners when the showers at the coal mine were out of order. It is these seemingly small aspects of life on the miners’ estates, which were like special villages, that tell us so much about the Ruhr region. These little details were recorded not only in the writings of Wolfgang Welt, Ralf Rothmann and Ilse Kibgis, who all grew up in the area, but also noted by visitors such as Joseph Roth and Heinrich Böll. With surprising and en… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 21 October 2023
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
with Bjarne Mädel Matthias Brandt
“Bin nebenan – Monologe für zuhause” [“I’m Next Door – Monologues for at Home”] is a collection of 12 episodes about people and their attempts to furnish a home. The colors mint green and light blue to ward off danger from outside, cozy rituals to relieve panic attacks, the perfectly clean kitchen as a pseudo-sacred space. This is a text marathon about shaky life foundations and interior spaces in need of renovation, about odd and insecure people who are in a battle for survival against themselves and their environment in small parallel universes. Playwright and screenwriter Ingrid Lausund (“The Crime-Sc… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Monologues for at home – With Bjarne Mädel and friends
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- Date: Sat. 21 October 2023
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Sign language Available
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
with Christian Alt Christian Schiffer
In their sensational podcast “Last Game Standing”, authors Christian Alt and Christian Schiffer have passionate yet harmonious discussions about computer games. But now they have a dispute – and it’s about aliens. Their previous book, “Angela Merkel is Hitler’s Daughter”, clearly showed how dangerous conspiracy theories are. But suddenly, Alt brings up the subject of superfast “Tic Tac” UFOs and Barack Obama saying that there are flying objects that the US isn’t able to classify. Alt is delighted, but Schiffer is skeptical. Isn’t there a rational explanation for everything? In The Truth Is Out There Somewhere (… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 21 October 2023
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Halle 6, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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with Shelly Kupferberg Uwe Timm
Hamburg, 1955: Uwe begins his apprenticeship as a furrier in his father’s fur business. Clocking in and out every day, he learns the quirks and secrets of this art form. He listens to the stories of his colleagues, makes new friends, discovers the city and jazz. The young apprentice dreams of writing, reads Salinger and Camus in secret and begins – still very shy – to find out about love. He becomes interested in political issues and starts getting into even more intense arguments with his father about the Nazi era. When a price war breaks out on the fur market and his father suddenly dies of a hea… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event All My Ghosts. With Uwe Timm
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- Date: Sat. 21 October 2023
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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with Martin Becker Terézia Mora
“I know what you want,” he says. “You won’t get it.” Muna, or Half a Life is the new novel by Terézia Mora, winner of the Georg Büchner Prize and German Book Prize. In this gripping, touching and articulate work, the Hungarian author (“Monster”, “Day In, Day Out”) explores the themes of love, violence and what happens when one lives a life dependent on someone else. Muna is about to graduate from high school when she meets Magnus, a French teacher and photographer. She spends the night with him. When the Berlin Wall comes down, he disappears. Seven years later, they meet again – and become a couple. Muna thinks s… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Muna, or Half a Life. With Terézia Mora
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- Date: Sat. 21 October 2023
- Time: 21:00
- Location: Halle 6, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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with Tijan Sila Micky Beisenherz
“Through writing, I have learned to organize my war experiences for myself. Until now, they were like scattered pieces of a puzzle, and it wasn’t clear to me what the big picture would ultimately look like,” said Tijan Sila, speaking about his impressive memoir Radio Sarajevo. When the war began in April 1992, the author was only 10 years old. As Sarajevo becomes engulfed in flames, the boy and his friends grow into young men. He wanders through the ruins of the bombed-out city, collecting the things left by those who fled or died, to exchange them for food on the black market. His most impor… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 21 October 2023
- Time: 21:00
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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with Ewald Arenz Marie-Christine Knop
With his books “Tasting Sunlight” and “The Grand Summer”, Ewald Arenz has written his way into the hearts of many readers. His latest best seller, Love on Lousy Days, tells the story of Clara and Elias, who meet at a real estate showing and immediately realize that they are meant for each other. But this also changes everything: Clara realizes that it is time to give up her self-imposed solitude. And Elias can no longer suppress the fact that he is stuck in a false life with his girlfriend. The wild happiness of the first days is soon followed by the first test. Is it possible in mid-life to find lo… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Ewald Arenz - Love on Lousy Days
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- Date: Sat. 21 October 2023
- Time: 21:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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with Albrecht Schuch Marion Brasch
“I want to stay where I have never been” is the last line of one of Thomas Brasch’s most famous poems. And it is a key sentiment for the writer, dramatist and filmmaker, whose life was like a “desolate novel”, a “novel about East and West”, as theater personality Claus Peymann once said. In his poems, plays and films, Brasch astutely, powerfully and originally confronts society’s contradictions, which are more relevant than ever before. In her debut novel “Ab jetzt ist Ruhe” [“From Now On, Quiet”], Marion Brasch told the story of her family. Now she puts the spotlight on her big brother Thomas. What did he dre… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 21 October 2023
- Time: 21:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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Der barrierefreie Zugang erfolgt über Seiteneingang (Beschilderung folgen).
with Bjarne Mädel Cordula Stratmann
Over the past year, have you tried to count the number of times that someone has made you shake your head or want to tear your hair out? You’re probably rolling your eyes right now as you read these lines. This is annoyance. This is the exasperation that darkens our mood when we look in the newspaper in the morning or question every plan with a sigh: Who knows what’s going on there now? Cordula Stratmann and Bjarne Mädel will explore how we can bring back the twinkle in the eyes of our sullen faces with the help of David Sedaris, Joachim Ringelnatz, Dorothy Parker, Michel de Montaigne and many… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 22 October 2023
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Colosseum Theater Essen
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
with Bettina Rust Martin Suter
Aging Dr Stotz lives in a villa on Zurich’s hillside, surrounded by portraits of a young woman. Melody was once his fiancée, but shortly before the wedding – more than forty years ago – she vanished. Stotz talks constantly about her to Tom Elmer, a young student he has hired to organize his estate. For a generous fee and free room and board, Tom signed on to work for Stotz for a year. Little by little, Tom begins to wonder whether Stotz is really who he pretends to be. Together with Stotz’s great-niece Laura, Tom begins to delve deep into the old man’s past, uncovering contradictions, secrets and surpri… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 22 October 2023
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
with Philip Banse Ulf Buermeyer Marie-Christine Knop
The political podcast “Lage der Nation” [“State of the Nation”], co-hosted by journalist Philip Banse and lawyer Ulf Buermeyer, is one of Germany’s most successful podcasts. As Germany’s coalition government reaches the half-way mark of its term, the two authors present “Baustellen der Nation”, a book exploring the challenges Germany is facing. In light of the long-ignored need for reform in the healthcare system, the catastrophic shortfalls in the education sector and the slow-moving energy transition, the authors conclude that Germany is having a tough time getting into gear. But what is needed to succe… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 22 October 2023
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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with Johann von Bülow Anthony McCarten Margarete von Schwarzkopf
Facial recognition software and geo-location via drone, smartphone or credit card are well-established technologies. Is it even possible these days for a person to escape from the system of digital controls? And how much surveillance is justified to prevent crime? In Going Zero, an “incredible, fast-paced, exciting and very terrifying novel” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), New Zealand author and award-winning screenwriter Anthony McCarten crafts a scarily topical scenario: A social media company and the CIA want to perfect the digital surveillance system in the name of national security. A mult… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Going Zero. With Anthony McCarten and Johann von Bülow
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- Date: Sun. 22 October 2023
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Englisch Deutsch
with Nora Bossong Per Leo Wolfram Eilenberger
Where coal mines, blast furnaces and workers’ housing estates once provided subject matter for investigative reporting features, the current structural transformation of the Ruhr region is more likely to inspire contemplation. With the “Metropolenschreiber” program, the foundation Brost Stiftung invites outstanding authors to be writers-in-residence in the region. The poet, novelist and keenly observant essayist Nora Bossong currently holds this title. Her most recent book was “Die Geschmeidigen”, a book about the socio-political environment and challenges facing her generation in their late 30s and 4… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 22 October 2023
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Halle 6, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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with Friedemann Karig Samira El Ouassil
At a secluded private clinic, a patient makes a seemingly impossible claim: She asserts that she is such a good liar, whatever she says comes true. After every session, where she spills out the confessions of her life – a spectacular story full of deception, uncanny coincidences and out-of-this-world luck – her therapist becomes less and less certain. What if this woman is telling the truth? When strange things start happening in the clinic, the therapist begins to understand the extent of this fantastic power. And that she has long since become part of it. Author and presenter Friedemann Kar… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event The Liar. With Friedemann Karig and Samira El Ouassil
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- Date: Sun. 22 October 2023
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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with Daniel Kehlmann Knut Elstermann
A new book by one of Germany’s greatest contemporary authors, Daniel Kehlmann, is always a big deal. In his outstanding new novel Lichtspiel [“Light Show”], Kehlmann tells the story of G.W. Pabst, perhaps the greatest film director of his time. It is an exploration of art and power, beauty and barbarity. When the Nazis seize power, Pabst is filming in France. He flees to Hollywood to escape the horrors of the new Germany. But under the dazzling California sun, the world-famous director suddenly seems less significant. Not even Greta Garbo, whom he made immortal, can help him. Pabst ends up retur… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Daniel Kehlmann presents his latest novel: Lichtspiel
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- Date: Sun. 22 October 2023
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Lichtburg Essen
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