The blue sofa
The blue sofa (spelling in the logo: the blue sofa ) is a series of events in which authors give interviews on a blue sofa. The organizers have been the media group Bertelsmann , ZDF and, since 2008, Deutschlandradio Kultur . They call it "the joint authors' forum", which takes place particularly at the book fairs in Frankfurt and Leipzig and regularly in Berlin's cultural life. Between 2011 and 2015, this also resulted in the monthly literary program The Blue Sofa .
Story and concept
The series was launched in 1999 by Club Bertelsmann to “promote reading and authors and to make conversations between selected authors and proven cultural journalists accessible to a broader public”, and was promoted from the start by the ZDF culture magazine aspekte and its Former editor-in-chief Wolfgang Herles accompanied: Since March 2000, “das blau sofa” and its partners have been presenting the most important authors of the book fairs at the book fairs in Leipzig and Frankfurt, who have been interviewed by journalists from ZDF and, since 2008, from Deutschlandradio Kultur. ZDF puts the contributions online in its media library and broadcasts excerpts from them in special aspekte programs called the blue sofa . From 2011, Herles hosted an independent program under this name every month, which ended in 2015 with his retirement.
The editorial conference of the Blue Sofa invites around 60 (Leipzig Book Fair) to 80 (Frankfurt Book Fair) authors to present their latest books in a half-hour conversation on the blue piece of cult furniture. Viewers can follow all conversations live on site every day at the book fairs, in the ZDF media library and on Deutschlandradio Kultur. Der Spiegel described the series as the "fame ramp of book fairs".
"The Blue Sofa Berlin"
Four days before the Bundestag election in September 2005, the Blue Sofa Berlin also celebrated its premiere on the occasion of the Berlin International Literature Festival . Authors such as Paul Nolte , Rüdiger Safranski , Peter Schneider and Christoph Stölzl discussed the topic “New Germany - is culture a choice?” Two months later, the Blaue Sofa Berlin with Paulo Coelho made a guest appearance for the first time in the Berliner Ensemble , the traditional theater by Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel .
Other important appearances were the book premiere of the autobiographical novel “ When Skinning the Onion ” with Nobel Prize Laureate Günter Grass (2006) and the literary summit with Grass, Joachim Kaiser and Martin Walser on “ Group 47 - Sixty Years Later” (2007).
In 2008 the Blue Sofa made its first guest appearance at the Salzburg Festival with a panel discussion on the subject of "1968 and the Arts" . In December 2008, the 60th year of the founding of the State of Israel , Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the Ambassador of the State of Israel Yoram Ben-Zev invited the Israeli writer Amos Oz and the Federal Foreign Minister to a sofa talk moderated by Wolfgang Herles .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The blue sofa - the most famous literary seating furniture. (No longer available online.) In: www.das-blaue-sofa.de. Archived from the original on October 11, 2016 ; accessed on October 11, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The ramp of fame . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 2003 ( online ).
