A city is reading a book
A city reads a book describes a form of local reading or book marketing in which as many people as possible in a city read a certain book over a period of several weeks and talk about it at events with known or unknown people. In many cases, reading is the trigger and the book is the point of reference for lectures on the subject as well as additional accompanying events and working groups. There are different reasons for choosing a book. Organizers can be local bookshops or libraries in connection with cultural or educational institutions.
history
The idea for the project comes from the USA. In 1998 in Seattle, for example, the initiators of If All of Seattle Read the Same Book put the readers of Nancy Pearl's The Sweet Hereafter "complete strangers into a real reading fever." In 2001, the One Book, One Chicago project was first implemented in Chicago . From the beginning, OBOC developed into a major project, which today offers a wide range of current issues under the umbrella of the CPL (Chicago Public Library). The Library of Congress has published a list of the states of America in which the project has been implemented.
A little later there were similar projects in some countries outside of the USA. As early as 2002, the CBC Radio station in Canada invited its listeners to a Canada Reads project . In the same year the public library of Vancouver and the booksellers and libraries of the province of Waterloo gave the impulse to read Wayson Choy's The Jade Peony and Alistair MacLeod's No great Mischief, respectively . A few years later, the Canadian poet Herménégilde Chiasson turned the name into a traveling installation and, under the name Une ville, un livre , invited visitors to the city to read and follow the literary text panels he had created and referred to as ancrages . - In 2002 the Brisbane Public Library, Australia invited readers to read Peter Carey's The History of the Kelly Gang . - In England, the city of Bristol is at the forefront of the movement. In 2003 , the Arts Council suggested reading Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island in England South West . In Brighton there was One City after 2005 on the initiative of Sarah Hutchings . One book . From this "City Reads" developed. In York , the "Big City Read" project has developed into a successful model. In 2017 the book To catch a Rabbit by Helen Cadbury is on the program. - In Austria there has been a comparable reading campaign in Vienna since 2002 under the title Eine Stadt. A book. established. - In Italy, the project took off in 2007 on the initiative of the Officina Giovani in the city of Pergola . In 2013 the libraries in the Florence / Pisa area made the book The Marshal and the Murderer by Magdalen Nabb the subject of a reading project under the name Una Città un Libro . In 2018, the city of Trento will include the "Un libro, una città" project in its activities. - In Denmark the project has been established under the name en by, en bog . There it is the city of Horsens , where in 2017 the public library invited to read De hængte hunde [In Germany: The first victim ] by Oxen author Jens Henrik Jensen.
In Germany, "A city reads a book" has been implemented in several cities since 2002, including first in Hamburg , Bad Hersfeld , Potsdam , Cologne and Hanau . Since 2010 the idea of the city reading campaign has been spreading more and more widely in Germany. Since then, the cities of Frankfurt am Main , Stuttgart , Würzburg , Augsburg , Regensburg , Kiel , the district of Stormarn , Puchheim , Bingen and Munich-Moosach have also been committed to this special form of reading promotion .
implementation
A jury, consisting of journalists, students, Germanists, etc. selects a book which should then be read by a city. The jury attaches particular importance to an interesting story and a high linguistic level. The content of the book must appeal to different people of different ages, genders and lifestyles. The content of the book becomes a topic of conversation in a region. The project aims to encourage reading enjoyment , individual commitment and cultural work. There are events (reading evenings, theater, exhibitions and lectures) in which the subject of the book is dealt with. Ideally, the author should be available for events.
In the individual cities there are various forms of implementation depending on the local requirements and objectives. The first week of action in Hamburg was a city reads a book “met with a great response” and thanks to the broadcast of the author Siegfried Lenz and his book The Man in the Stream “a complete success”, and in 2003 all events that supported the book Die Invention of the currywurst by Uwe Timm were dedicated, "well attended". In Potsdam in 2002, thousands of interested parties decided on the selection of “their” book with a click of the mouse and, with Bernhard Schlink's book Der Vorleser, focused on a powerful piece of literature.
The A Book for the City campaign has been taking place in Cologne since 2003 , and since 2005 a team of organizers in Hanau has been determining a public vote under the motto "Hanau is looking for a book" before agreeing on a book title. Since 2009 the city library of the city of Neuss invites you to read a book every year. Authors such as Martin Walser , Hanns-Josef Ortheil , Uwe Timm and others were found here. a. brought into focus. Elmshorn has also "attracted attention and interest beyond the borders of Elmshorn" with its reading project, which has been organized regularly since 2009. In Augsburg in 2014 was the tobacconist of Robert Seethaler read. The initiative group of the city of Koblenz was able to record “a successful project” in 2017 with the distribution of Benedict Wells Roman Becks last summer .
In Würzburg, on the other hand, the organizers chose books such as Die Jünger Jesu by Leonhard Frank (2014), Der Aufruhr um der Junker Ernst by Jakob Wassermann (2016) and Not from now, not from here by Yehuda Amichai (2018) to give impulses for coming to terms with the political past by reading books and authors with a local reference. School competitions were successfully held for this, a model that will be continued in 2020 in connection with the book Frau ohne Reue by Max Mohr . - Similar motives were the decisive factors that in 2015 in Stormarn (Schleswig-Holstein) Amon - My grandfather would have me shot of Jennifer Teege had been selected as the reading. The Stormarn Initiative Group is reading a book intended to initiate the confrontation with National Socialism by reading the “moving family biography”.
In Baden-Baden 2018 will be reading Gerhard Durlacher's Drowning. Invited a childhood in the Third Reich . In Bad Hersfeld, Peter Handke, as the jury chairman in the Luther year 2017, was responsible for reading the Bible with the words: "It is important to discover where the message of the Bible meets life today," while in Stuttgart in the same year the initiators were the Iranian-born author Shida Bazyar and with her novel It is quiet at night in Tehran, the topic of migration has come to the fore. In previous years, the novels Sturmflut by Margriet de Moor (2012) and The Neck of the Giraffe by Judith Schalansky (2015) were selected in Stuttgart .
Politically oriented, the project is the whole city reading a book of Kiel, in which the Kiel mutiny of 1918 in the form of a study of the book was The Emperor, the generals remained of Theodor Plievier be thought to. In 2018, the book Das Glückskind by Steven Uhly will be the focus in Puchheim , while Regensburg will focus on The Forger, the Spy and the Bomb Maker by Alex Capus . In Bingen, the organizers have agreed on the book The Story of Bees by Maja Lunde for 2018 . Numerous accompanying events frame the reading project.
In Frankfurt, as part of the Frankfurt Reads project, which has been taking place annually since 2010, the program for 2018 is The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers . In Hanau, where the project has been running successfully since 2005 and a political topic was the focus in 2016 with Abbas Khider's slap in the face , 2018 And then someone gets up and opens the window read by Susann Pásztor . In Moosach, a district of Munich, A Book for Moosach has been offered for reading together since 2016 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Berliner Morgenpost, May 3, 2002.
- ^ Homepage of the Chicago Public Library
- ^ "One Book" Reading Promotion Projects
- ↑ Homepage of "Acadienouvelle"
- ↑ Homepage of "Collected Works"
- ↑ Homepage of the literature festival "Big City Read" ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ Homepage of the Officina Giovani
- ↑ Homepage of the Elsa and Arno region ( memento of the original from February 19, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Homepage of the city of Trento / Trento
- ↑ Homepage of the publ. Horsens Libraries
- ^ Dana Horáková in: DIE WELT November 9, 2002.
- ↑ Homepage of Buchmarkt.de
- ↑ Berliner Morgenpost, July 3, 2002; Der Tagesspiegel July 4, 2002.
- ^ Homepage of the City of Cologne
- ↑ Homepage of "Elmshorn reads"
- ↑ Homepage of "Augsburg reads a book"
- ^ Rhein-Zeitung July 14, 2017
- ↑ Homepage of "Würzburg reads a book"
- ^ Homepage of the Stormarner daily newspaper
- ↑ Homepage of "Baden-Baden Reads"
- ↑ Homepage of the city of Bad Hersfeld
- ↑ Stuttgarter Nachrichten: Stuttgart is reading a book
- ↑ Homepage of the University of Kiel "Simply good teaching"
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung July 21, 2017
- ^ Homepage of the city of Regensburg
- ↑ Flyer from the Bingen City Library
- ↑ Homepage of "Frankfurt reads a book"
