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Munich Literature Festival: Across all borders

2022-09-30T10:18:16.467Z


Munich Literature Festival: Across all borders Created: 09/30/2022, 12:06 p.m By: Katrin Basaran The Literature Festival curators Benedikt Feiten and Tanja Maljartschuk want to push boundaries. © Catherine Hess/Munich Literature Festival Off to the autumn of reading: The 13th Munich Literature Festival will be celebrated from November 16th to December 4th. Now the makers have presented the fir


Munich Literature Festival: Across all borders

Created: 09/30/2022, 12:06 p.m

By: Katrin Basaran

The Literature Festival curators Benedikt Feiten and Tanja Maljartschuk want to push boundaries.

© Catherine Hess/Munich Literature Festival

Off to the autumn of reading: The 13th Munich Literature Festival will be celebrated from November 16th to December 4th.

Now the makers have presented the first program priorities.

"Our house will vibrate for three weeks, it will hum," hopes Tanja Graf, head of the Literature House.

Her pride and anticipation for this 13th literature festival, which will be celebrated in Munich from November 16 to December 4, 2022, are almost palpable.

The heart of the festival, the forum, is curated by the Ukrainian author Tanja Maljartschuk (“Blue Whale of Remembrance”).

In view of the Russian war of aggression, a purely Ukraine program would have been quite to be expected.

But the 39-year-old chose a more far-reaching motto: "Be free: Tell a new story about Central Europe".

The Ukrainian author Tanja Maljartschuk curates the forum

Of course, the Viennese-by-choice is concerned with representing the culture of her home country.

In addition, however, the status of the countries of Central Europe as a whole, which Maljartschuk locates between Germany and Russia, and their perception by the West are to be discussed and intellectual boundaries are to be re-explored.

The forum should be a “voluntary trip to Central European art and culture” for everyone.

Then, for example, Herta Müller and Andrej Kurkow talk about experiences in dictatorships, there will be a punk rock concert by Zhadan i Sobaky, the band of the Ukrainian writer Serhij Zhadan, who just received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade.

And of course he reads from his works.

What is it like to be at the front?

The young Ukrainian authors Artem Chapeye and Artem Tschech have received special permission to report on the literature festival despite being conscripted into the military.

At a symposium, psychoanalysts, philosophers and publicists are trying to find answers to the question of whether evil is banal or whether it is being made banal.

Just a few points from Malyartschuk's committed and courageous program, which also offers films, a chamber opera and, of course, a comprehensive series of readings.

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As part of the popular book show, bestselling authors come together: Professor Dietrich Grönemeyer pleads for holistic medicine, crime writer Romy Hausmann talks about crimes and Charlotte Link reveals how she developed her inspector.

Benedikt Feiten curates the "Münchner Schiene"

In addition, the organizers are looking forward to a new, young series: the "Münchner Schiene".

For this purpose, it goes across the city, where in places like the Favorit Bar or in the Bellevue di Monaco the limits of the word are supposed to be broken.

Curated by Benedikt Feiten, himself an author and musician, the spotlight here falls on Munich's creative scene.

Prose meets poetry, graphic novels get involved, dance, performance, poetry slam and music too.

And audience participation is strongly encouraged.

Would you like an example?

On December 1, 2022, "Abfahr" is all about the question: Where do ideas come from - and what do you do with them?

Here, for example, an author gives an impulse that is continued by a comic artist and then passed on to a dancer.

Where does this end?

Who knows.

Ultimately, it is also unimportant

because it's about pushing boundaries.

And of course about taking part and celebrating.

So that it vibrates – beyond the Literaturhaus.

(More literature? Read our review of Stephen King's new novel "Fairy Tale" and Ferdinand von Schirach's "Afternoon" here.)

Source: merkur

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