Eifel Literature Festival

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The Eifel Literature Festival is a voluntary literary event in Rhineland-Palatinate . It takes place every two years as part of the Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural Summer .

The aim of the festival is to elevate the Eifel to a European literary stage. The festival arises from a private initiative of the Germanist Josef Zierden . In 1994 he founded the Eifel Literature Festival in Prüm , in the small counter of a bank, as an accompanying program to the presentation of his book “The Eifel in Literature”.

history

Until 2001, the fiction literature which formed Eifel and the Eifel focus. The literary program was later expanded: the Eifel should also be a literary stage for authors outside the Eifel, according to Martin Walser , Mario Adorf and Siegfried Lenz in 2001.

From 1994 to 1998 it was measured on an autumn week, and its duration was extended to readings from May to November.

In 2006, the 7th edition of the Eifel Literature Festival crossed the borders of the Bitburg-Prüm district and recorded over 10,000 visitors at around 20 readings, which were now also held in the neighboring districts of Daun (today "Vulkaneifel" ), Bernkastel-Wittlich , Ahrweiler and Mayen-Koblenz and in the North Rhine-Westphalian districts of Euskirchen and Aachen .

Festival 2008

With the eighth edition in 2008, it covered all ten districts of the Eifel - right up to North Rhine-Westphalia. Authors were also guests in the German-speaking Community of Belgium . The 2008 festival lasted from April 25th to November 14th. The program included 30 weekly events at 18 locations with authors and reciters.

Festival 2010

With around 15,000 visitors at 28 events, the 9th Eifel Literature Festival 2010 was the most successful in its history. With around 1100 visitors in the monastery church of Himmerod Abbey , Father Anselm Grün set the visitor record. A festival journal appeared for the first time in spring and autumn 2010: with many interviews, photo documentations and background information on past and upcoming events. In January 2010 the magazine “buchjournal” counted the festival among the twelve most important literary events of 2010.

International Eifel Literature Prize

Replacing the previously awarded Eifel Literature Prize (which Ursula Krechel and Norbert Scheuer received among others ), the 1st International Eifel Literature Prize will be awarded in 2008, endowed with 15,000 euros (main prize) and 3,000 euros (sponsorship prize). The international character of the literature prize is intended to reflect the cross-border character of the festival. The jury (Martin Lüdke, SWR head of literature, “Literature in the Foyer”, chair; Sigrid Löffler, “Literatures”; Volker Hage, “Der Spiegel”) decided on the main prize for the British writer Alison Louise Kennedy (Glasgow), one of the major contemporary voices of Great Britain. She awarded the sponsorship award to Wolfgang Herrndorf (Berlin).

Prices

  • Eifel Award 2010 of the Eifel Future Initiative (ZIE), presented in March 2011 at ITB Berlin.
  • Wolf-von-Reis-Kulturpreis des Eifelverein 2011, awarded in May 2011 in Hellenthal / Eifel.

Authors

At the Eifel Literature Festival were u. a .: Mario Adorf , Simon Beckett , Klaus Bednarz , Iris Berben , Senta Berger , Jacques Berndorf , Peter Bichsel , Norbert Blüm , Tom Buhrow & Sabine Stamer , Peter O. Chotjewitz , Michael Degen , Friedrich Christian Delius , John von Düffel , Joachim C. Fest , Sebastian Fitzek , Susanne Fröhlich , Arved Fuchs , Sigfrid Gauch , Heiner Geißler , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Petra Gerster , Ralph Giordano , Dietmar Grieser , Dietrich Grönemeyer , Anselm Grün , Alfred Gulden , Gisbert Haefs , Volker Hage , Ulla Hahn , Peter Hahne , Petra Hammesfahr , Ludwig Harig , Elke Heidenreich , Judith Hermann , Wolfgang Herrndorf , Corinne Hofmann , Tommy Jaud , Inge Jens , Margot Käßmann , Wladimir Kaminer , Daniel Kehlmann , Walter Kempowski , AL Kennedy , Imre Kertész , Tanja Kinkel , Bodo Kirchhoff , Volker Klüpfel & Michael Kobr , Pavel Kohout , Sibylle Knauss , Ursula Krechel , Sabine Kuegler , Günter Kunert , Sarah Kuttner , Benjamin Lebert , Wolfgang Leonhard , Günter Lamprecht , Siegfried Lenz , Erich Loest , Martin Lüdke , Ludwig Lugmeier , Andreas Maier , Roger Manderscheid , Margriet de Moor , Martin Mosebach , Herta Müller , Sten Nadolny , Nele Neuhaus , Leoluca Orlando , Hanns-Josef Ortheil , Georg M. Oswald , Christoph Peters , Fritz Pleitgen , Ulrich Plenzdorf , Erika Pluhar , Richard David Precht , Christoph Ransmayr , Katja Riemann , Harry Rowohlt , Peter Rühmkorf , David Safier , Rüdiger Safranski , Dirk Sager , Frank Schätzing , Rafik Schami , Maximilian Schell , Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt , Peter Scholl-Latour , Bernd Schroeder , Rainer Maria Schröder , Ingo Schulze , Alice Schwarzer , Arnold Stadler , Martin Suter , Leonie Swann , Uwe Timm , Günter Wallraff , Martin Walser , Jan Weiler , Christine Westermann , Urs Widmer , Roger Willemsen , Michael Winterhoff , Gabriele Wohmann and July Toe .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Information from Josef Zierden, organizer of the festival
  2. buchjournal, issue 1/2010, page 39