German-Israeli Literature Days

The international literary meeting German-Israeli Literature Days is an event organized for the first time by the Heinrich Böll Foundation and the “Forum Goethe-Institut ” from March 20 to 24, 2005, bringing German and Israeli writers to readings and discussions at several venues in Berlin should merge.

The occasion was the upcoming 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and Germany . In terms of content, the aim is to work out what contemporary literature has to say about the respective societies, their morals , inventories and lines of conflict.

In addition to the readings, there were daily author and topic-centered discussion groups, panel discussions and film events.

The second German-Israeli Literature Days took place from April 11th to 13th, 2008, the third from October 27th to 31st, 2009.

The 13th edition of the German-Israeli Literature Days took place from April 11th to 15th, 2018 in Berlin. Traditionally, a German and an Israeli author met each other in the Deutsches Theater, in the Volksbühne and in the Sophiensaal, presented the current work and held a dialogue on the topic of "Fair enough?" - "What is fair?"

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  Sibylle Lewitscharoff, Aviad Kleinberg (2014)

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  Eshkol Nevo (2012)

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  Hubert Winkels and Avimara Golan (2012)

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  Tanja Dückers, Ralf Fücks (2012)

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  Meir Shalev (2014)

Web links

• First German-Israeli Literature Days 20.-24. March 2005 in Berlin (German wave March 18, 2005)
• Böll Foundation: Background, program and participants of the First German-Israeli Literature Days
• Böll Foundation: More of it - the second German-Israeli literary days in Berlin
• Böll Foundation: Declarations of love to Berlin and Tel Aviv at the third German-Israeli literary days

Individual evidence

1. ^ Christian Römer: Literature Days program. Retrieved April 21, 2018 .