Bookseller cellar
The Buchhändlerkeller is an event location in Berlin. It is run by the association "Freunde des Buchhändlerkeller eV", a working group that organizes literary events. The venue was established in 1967 by Klaus-Peter (KP) Herbach (1944–2004) and the Arbeitskreis Berliner Jungbuchhändler e. V. set up in the basement of a former bakery on Görresstrasse in the Berlin district of Friedenau . At that time, Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Günter Grass , Uwe Johnson and other authors also lived in Friedenau . In 1976 the bookseller's cellar moved into the rooms of Michael S. Cullen's former Galerie Mikro on the ground floor at Carmerstrasse 1 in the Charlottenburg district , but he kept the name and still bears it today. The working group is now called: Freunde des Buchhändlerkeller e. V.
For almost 40 years, KP Herbach, full-time press officer at the West Berlin Academy of the Arts , designed the program of the weekly readings on Thursday alone. After his death in January 2004, friends continued and expanded the concept. The readings from new German-language literary publications form the backbone of the program, now introduced by Axel Haase, Hartmut Mangold, Sabine Schönfeldt, Cornelia Staudacher , Rosemarie Still, Giuseppe de Siati or Jürgen Tomm. Since 2005, they have been presenting literary events in the original rooms every Tuesday. There are also guest events on other days of the week, mainly from publishers. The events usually start at 8:30 p.m.
Events
Among the events on Tuesday are part of life images with film portraits of writers and other unique literary film documents as well as the number of re-Read with specially compiled text collages as a stimulus for renewed reading.
- Fundstelle & Spurensuche introduces important, but now hardly known or forgotten authors in their lives and works.
- With the border crossings literary-historical-cultural-philosophical discourses between experts and the audience on current topics and problems are initiated.
- In the series On the subject new, current non-fiction books are presented.
- Under the title Flaneure in Berlin , texts by the great columnists of the past unfold surprising topicality for the present.
- Every first Sunday of the month at 5 p.m. the bookseller's cellar invites you to the ErzählBar . Well-known and less well-known people from many areas of life tell how they became, what they became and why: life story (s) as contemporary story (s).
- On the last Sunday of each month, the CarmerEins literary reading stage opens for anyone who wants to read their own literary texts - prose or poetry - up to a maximum length of ten minutes. Clemens Kübler and Philip Schimpf then discuss the texts - a maximum of four per evening - with the authors and the audience. Registration is not required.
- Every two months the bookseller's cellar invites you to the opening of an exhibition of works by famous artists or photographers. Most of the time you can also purchase the work.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 30 ′ 28.8 ″ N , 13 ° 19 ′ 30 ″ E