Christoph Rieger

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Christoph Rieger (* 1984 in Potsdam as Christoph Peter ) is a German cultural manager and literary broker.

Life

From 2004 to 2010 Rieger studied theater, film and media studies , sociology and psychology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and at the Aberystwyth University . From 2005 to 2010 he worked as a freelancer at the Hessen Film and Cinema Office in Frankfurt am Main . Since 2011, Rieger has been heading the children's and youth program at the Berlin International Literature Festival . In 2012 he initiated the annual award The Extraordinary Book . In 2013 he published his book Keys for the Future - What Children's and Young People's Literature Does Europe Need? - edited together with Ulrich Schreiber and Birte Hendricks. . From 2014 to 2017 Rieger was a member of the Council for the Arts . Since 2015 he has curated the children's and youth program at the Odessa International Literature Festival . From 2016 to 2018, Rieger was a member of the jury for the Luchs Literature Prize and reviewed children's and youth literature in ZEIT . In 2017 he headed the Versfest Berlin .

From 2011 to 2019, Rieger organized over 900 events for children and young people for the children's and youth program at the Berlin International Literature Festival. These included André Aciman , John Boyne , Jennifer Clement , Frank Cottrell Boyce , Julia Donaldson , Roddy Doyle , Can Dündar , Cornelia Funke , John Green , Robert Habeck , Peter Härtling , Navid Kermani , Judith Kerr , Jon Klassen , Patrick Ness , Mirjam Pressler , Jason Reynolds, Meg Rosoff , Boualem Sansal , Axel Scheffler and Angie Thomas . As part of the festival's children and youth program, he led the projects A Story for Europe (2012), Cultures of Trust (2014), Visions 2030 (2015), Reading the Currents (2017), Automatic Writing 2.0 (2019) and country focus on children - and youth literature in Flanders and the Netherlands (2016), Switzerland (2018) and Norway (2019).

Christoph Rieger lives in Berlin.

Fonts

  • Birte Hendricks, Christoph Rieger and Ulrich Schreiber (eds.): Keys to the future - which children's and youth literature does Europe need? , Vorwerk 8, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3940384614 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Editing: "Personnel changes at the international literature festival berlin". buchmarkt.de, April 15, 2011, accessed October 30, 2018 .
  2. ^ Editing: "Personnel changes at the international literature festival berlin". buchmarkt.de, April 15, 2011, accessed October 30, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Editor: “Berlin Literature Festival: Thomas Böhm takes over program management”. buchmarkt.de, April 18, 2011, accessed October 30, 2018 .
  4. ^ Margit Lesemann: Library of Extraordinary Books. , BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner, Meerbusch-Ilverich, BuchMarkt No. 10 from October 2015, p. 24.
  5. ^ Council for the Arts: “The Council for the Arts is newly elected!” Rat-fuer-die-kuenste.de, March 25, 2014, accessed on October 30, 2018 .
  6. ^ Radio Bremen: "Children's and Young People's Book Prize Luchs". radiobremen.de, 2018, accessed on March 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ ZEIT Publishing Group: “LUCHS January Prize for Chen Jianghong”. zeit.de, January 6, 2016, accessed October 30, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Margit Lesemann: “Young target group: premiere of versfest berlin”. buchmarkt.de, March 20, 2017, accessed October 30, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Peter Weiss Foundation for Art and Politics: “Children and Youth Program”. literaturfestival.com, 2019, accessed March 10, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Peter Weiss Foundation for Art and Politics: “Program booklets international literature festival berlin”. literaturfestival.com, 2017, accessed March 10, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Christine Schuster: “Which children's and youth literature does Europe need?” Read-in-deutschland.de, September 30, 2013, accessed on December 11, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Ulrike Baureithel: "In good faith". tagesspiegel.de, September 20, 2014, accessed December 11, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Roddy Doyle: "Two arms embrace the sea". berliner-zeitung.de, July 30, 2015, accessed December 11, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Susanne Eickhoff: "Literature meets marine research". idw-online.de, September 8, 2017, accessed December 11, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Anastasia Schmaljuk: "Automatic Writing 2.0: international literature festival berlin starts series of events in the Science Year 2019". idw-online.de, September 4, 2019, accessed October 1, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Editor: "Authors from Flanders & the Netherlands as guests at the Berlin Literature Festival". vrt.be, September 9, 2017, accessed on December 11, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Editor: "The 18th Berlin International Literature Festival will take place from September 5th to 15th". buchmarkt.de, July 3, 2018, accessed December 11, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Editor: "Literature Program Norway 2019". norway2019.com, 2019, accessed October 1, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Rieger, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cultural manager and literary broker
DATE OF BIRTH 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Potsdam , GDR