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It doesn’t matter if we celebrate with coffee, tea, champagne or schnaps, the most memorable parties are always the ones where something goes a little wrong, inhibitions disappear, barriers are c… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Mon. 05 October 2026
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Lichtburg Essen
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Accessibility
- Sign language Available
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Ever since her celebrated debut “Summerhouse, Later”, Judith Hermann has been one of the most important voices in German-language literature. In her latest book, I Want to Go Back in Time, the pri… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Judith Hermann: I Want to Go Back in Time
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- Date: Wed. 07 October 2026
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
In his latest novel Das Vogelhaus [“The Birdhouse”], bestselling author Jan Weiler (“The Awning Man”, “Maria, He Doesn’t Like the Taste”, “Teens: A Survival Handbook for Parents” and more) presents a clever, humorous … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 07 October 2026
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Ebertbad Oberhausen
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
It was already clear that Manuel Bittorf has a real feel for language – as evidenced by the song lyrics he published as an indie musician with the stage name Betterov. And so it comes as no surprise t… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Manuel Bittorf (Betterov): Golden Retriever
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- Date: Wed. 07 October 2026
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
This summer, the literary world celebrated the 100th anniversary of Ingeborg Bachmann’s birth. The poet was already an iconic and mythic figure while she was alive. And her works continue to f… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 07 October 2026
- Time: 19:30
- Location: KAUE Gelsenkirchen
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Accessibility
- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Lifetime is a book about aging and being young, about loss and happiness, about major expeditions and the small adventures of everyday life. In it, mountain climber and adventurer Reinhold Messner… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Diane und Reinhold Messner: Lifetime – On the Value of Mortality
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- Date: Wed. 07 October 2026
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Die andere Seite der Maloche – Nachbarschaft im Revier
In the Ruhr region, the local kiosks and corner pubs are more than a just a place to buy cigarettes, beer or a newspaper. They are places to talk and meet, shaped by the regional history of coal… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 08 October 2026
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
“It is as if everything that Alex Schuman previously wrote was paving the way for this novel”, wrote Swedish newspaper Gefle Dagblad about the new book from the bestselling author of “The Survivors”. In June… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Alex Schulman: June 17th. With Fabian Busch
Event data
- Date: Thu. 08 October 2026
- Time: 19:30
- Location: KAUE Gelsenkirchen
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Accessibility
- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
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- Deutsch
- Englisch
You couldn’t get enough of “Bridgerton” on Netflix? And you love Jane Austen’s writing and Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights”? Well then, you must join Anna, Nellie and Katharina Thalbach to discover the British au… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event The Reluctant Widow – With Katharina, Anna and Nellie Thalbach
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- Date: Thu. 08 October 2026
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Messe Essen, Foyer Ost
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
He signed his first record deal at the age of 17 and launched his solo career in 2003. For decades, Axel “Aki” Bosse has been thrilling his fans with songs such as “Schönste Zeit”, “Der letzte Tanz”, “Ein Traum” … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 08 October 2026
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Ebertbad Oberhausen
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Finally, a new case for the sheep detectives! Leonie Swann scored a global hit with her book “Three Bags Full” (adapted to the big screen as “The Sheep Detectives” in 2026). Now, her new novel Widders… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 08 October 2026
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
His work as a soccer reporter for the magazine “11FREUNDE” takes Christoph Biermann to the beating heart of football. And this heartbeat can definitely be heard in the Ruhr region! He tells the str… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 08 October 2026
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
In 2025, Matthias Brandt delivered a powerful speech at the Berlin-Plötzensee Memorial Center, commemorating the resistance fighters involved in the attack against Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944. His … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Saying No. With Matthias Brandt and Ruth Hoffmann
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- Date: Fri. 09 October 2026
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Sign language Available
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
With his bestselling debut “Schönwald”, Philipp Oehmke wrote a great German social novel. His second book Papenburg builds on that first work, and again centers on complicated family dynamics. The stor… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
Event data
- Date: Fri. 09 October 2026
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Neues aus der Gegend
The “New From the Region” series showcases exciting new releases from authors from the Ruhr region. This time with bestselling author Vera Zischke! After exploring the topic of motherhood in her deb… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Vera Zischke: Pina Is Out of Action
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- Date: Fri. 09 October 2026
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Literaturhaus Oberhausen / Gdanska Theater
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Accessibility
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
“Human rights exist only as a whole; they are indivisible, apply to everyone, and that means equally for all. [...] Those who think human rights apply only to people like them do not understand what h… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Carolin Emcke asks: What Does a Person Count For?
Event data
- Date: Fri. 09 October 2026
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Ebertbad Oberhausen
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
In the late 1980s, a group of young women are studying Russian. They read Dostoevsky, drink vodka and travel through the Soviet Union. It is a time of new beginnings, of dreams of a democratic Russia… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Christiane Hoffmann: The Dreams We Had. With Martina Gedeck
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- Date: Fri. 09 October 2026
- Time: 19:30
- Location: 9. Etage der Zentrale der Sparkasse Essen
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Please note: There will be explicit discussion of racism, sexism, eating disorders, sexual abuse and violence. This event is not suitable for children.
“This is how my story begins. As the daughter of a white woman and a Black man. Between Sange, in South Tanzania, and Gera, in Thuringia, Germany. Between colonial past and East German dictatorship.” Tup… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 09 October 2026
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Schauspielhaus Bochum, Großer Saal
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Accessibility
- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
When actor Edgar Selge made his writing debut with “So You Finally Found Us”, critics raved about the work. “It is impossible to write better than this,” wrote newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung. Now, he presents… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Edgar Selge: Jura’s Last Winter
Event data
- Date: Fri. 09 October 2026
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Dörte Hansen’s bestselling novels (including “To the Sea”, “This House Is Mine”) have been feted by readers and critics alike. Her latest book is another great success: It tells the story of Broder, who had wa… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 10 October 2026
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Where perpetual ice once marked the boundaries of civilization, the future of our security is being decided today. Arctic warming, which is progressing four times faster than the global average, is… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Robert Habeck: Arctic Meltdown
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- Date: Sat. 10 October 2026
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Sign language Available
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Finally, the new novel by Ewald Arenz is here! In Five, Six, Seven, Eight, the bestselling author of works such “The Grand Summer” and “Tasting Sunlight”, returns in top form: The book centers on 60-year… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Ewald Arenz: Five, Six, Seven, Eight
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- Date: Sat. 10 October 2026
- Time: 17:30
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Author and former world-class track and field athlete Ines Geipel is one of the most important journalistic voices in Germany’s post-reunification discourse. She is the author of Fableland: The East, t… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
Event data
- Date: Sat. 10 October 2026
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Kokskohlenbunker, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
In 1920, painter Baladine Klossowska re-encounters poet Rainer Maria Rilke. The divorced mother of two sons falls passionately in love with Rilke. But after a brief, intense love affair, he becomes… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event I’m drowning in the waters of my own love
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- Date: Sat. 10 October 2026
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Theater Oberhausen
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Kai Magnus Sting is known for top-class cabaret. His recent work “Hömma, so isset!” was dedicated to the people of the Ruhr region and their inimitable local dialect: Ruhrpott received pron… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event The genius is stuck! With Kai Magnus Sting and Bastian Pastewka
Event data
- Date: Sat. 10 October 2026
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Die andere Seite der Maloche – Nachbarschaft im Revier
Imagine that! Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote about the hospitality of the citizens of Duisburg. Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway reported for American newspapers as the Allies battled to… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 10 October 2026
- Time: 20:30
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Die andere Seite der Maloche – Nachbarschaft im Revier
Robust debates are necessary if we want to strengthen and defend our democratic interactions. Therefore, one of the key questions of our social coexistence is: How can we successfully communicate and… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 11 October 2026
- Time: 16:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Two brothers from Bremen, Frankie and Freddie Lehmann, are living in West Berlin in 1980. While one has been trying for weeks to get in with the squatter scene in Kreuzberg, the other plans to escape… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Sven Regener: Frankie und Freddie
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- Date: Sun. 11 October 2026
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
We all know men who cannot – or do not want to – show their feelings. When their emotions do become visible, it often shows up as anger, joy or pride, but rarely as sadness, doubt or vulnerable love. Why… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 11 October 2026
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
It’s no good. We have to do something about people’s suffering and pain. War, poverty, fascism, all that stuff. Everyone can do something. Everyone. Give something, help somewhere, something like tha… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 11 October 2026
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Kammerspiele, Schauspielhaus Bochum
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Accessibility
- Induction loop Available
In summer 2024, Christoph Kramer’s professional career with soccer team Borussia Mönchengladbach is coming to an end. To fill the looming void, he writes his first book: “Summer, When Life Began”. After … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Christoph Kramer: Where the Clouds Meet
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- Date: Sun. 11 October 2026
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Lichtburg Essen
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Accessibility
- Sign language Available
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Historians Richard Hemmer and Daniel Meßner are masterful storytellers, as they demonstrate as hosts of the successful podcast “Geschichten aus der Geschichte” [“Stories from History”] and as authors.… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event More stories from history! With Richard Hemmer and Daniel Meßner
Event data
- Date: Sun. 11 October 2026
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
