International children's and youth literature at the Berlin International Literature Festival 2012
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The 12th International Literature Festival Berlin (own name: ilb) with its festival section International Children's and Young People's Literature took place from September 4th to 16th, 2012. The main venue was the Haus der Berliner Festspiele .
Guests
| Author or illustrator | nationality | books presented at the festival |
|---|---|---|
| Azouz Begag | France | Azouz, the boy from the suburbs (1998) / Le Gone du Chaâba (1986), Almost everywhere - The story of an Algerian boy in France (2000) / Béni ou le Paradis privé (1989) |
| Farideh Chalatbarie | Iran | The jackal at the lion's court / Tobeh (2011), Bus ride into the unknown (2012) / Otoboose avazi (2007) |
| Mariana Chiesa Mateos | Argentina / Italy | No hay tiempo para jugar - Relatos de niños trabajadores (2004, untranslated), Migrando (2010, untranslated) |
| Iwona Chmielewska | Poland | Blumka's Diary - From Life in Janusz Korczak's Orphanage (2011) / Pamietnik Blumki (2011) |
| Gabriela Cichowska | Poland | Fantje (2010) / Słoniątko (2011), Miss Esther's Last Performance - A Story from the Warsaw Ghetto (2013) |
| Kate De Goldi | New Zealand | in the evening at 10 (2011) / The 10PM Question (2008) |
| Jan De Leeuw | Belgium | Nachtland (2007), Schrödinger, Dr. Linda and a corpse in the cold store (2010) / Bevroren Kamers (2009), Roter Schnee auf Thorsteinhalla (2010) / Rode Sneeuw (2007) |
| Dibou | France / Egypt | Chronicle of a Vanished City (2012) / Chroniques de la Nécropole (2011) |
| Enzo | Taiwan | Student 34 in class A (2011) / 一年 甲班 34 号 , Yaoguai mofan sheng / 妖怪 模範 生 (2011, untranslated, German translation of the title: Musterschüler Monster ) for one year |
| Golo | France / Egypt | B. Traven - Portrait of a famous stranger / B. Traven - Portrait d'un anonyme célèbre (2011), Chronicle of a vanished city (2012) / Chroniques de la Nécropole (2011) |
| John Green | United States | Fate is a Lousy Traitor (2012) / The Fault in our Stars (2012) |
| Finn-Ole Heinrich | Germany | die taschen full water (2005), yesterday was already a day (2009), you turn your head, I turn your head - stories and songs (2010), Frerk, you dwarf! (2011), Cliffhanger (2011) |
| Tendai Huchu | Zimbabwe / Scotland | The Hairdresser of Harare (2011) / The Hairdresser of Harare (2010) |
| Adam Jaromir | Poland / Germany | Zarafa (2009), Fantje (2010), Fräulein Esther's last performance - A story from the Warsaw Ghetto (2013) |
| Gerald Jatzek | Austria | Bully Rhymes (2011) |
| Chen Jianghong | China / France | Han-Gan and the wonder horse / Le cheval magique de Han Gan (2004), An Grandfather's Hand - My Childhood in China (2009) / Mao et moi (2008) |
| Mariana Chiesa Mateos | Argentina | No time to play - working-class children talk about their lives (2012), migration (2012) |
| Nils Mohl | Germany | Once upon a time there was Indian land (2011) |
| Salah Naoura | Germany | Matti and Sami and the three biggest mistakes in the universe (2011), Dilip and the Big Bang and what happened to us afterwards (2012) |
| Uri Orlev | Poland / Israel | The sand play / החול משחק , run, boy, run! (2004) / רוץ, לדי, רוץ , A Kingdom for Eljuscha (2011) / השמש מערבות התיבה |
| Maria Papayanni | Greece | Ως διά μαγείας / Os dia magias (2006, untranslated, German translation of the title: Wie durch Magie ), Το δέντρο το μονάχο / To dendro to monacho (2010, untranslated, German translation of the title: Der einsame Baum ) |
| Maria Parr | Norway | Waffle hearts on the hook (2008) / Vaffelhjartje (2005), freckles on your knees (2010) / Tonje Glimmerdal (2010) |
| Peter Pohl | Sweden | The rainbow has only eight colors (1993) / Regnbågn har bara åtta färger (1986), Anton, I like you (2009), My girlfriend Mia (2012) / En vän som heter Mia (2011) |
| Iva Procházková | Czech Republic | Elias and the Grandma from the Egg (2003), The Naked (2008), Orange Days (2012) |
| Janne Teller | Denmark / USA | Nothing - What is important in life (2010) / Intet (2000), war - imagine if it were here (2011) / Hvis der var krig i norden (2004) |
| JRR Tolkien | Great Britain | Retrospective: The Little Hobbit (1957) |
| Rachel Ward | Great Britain | Numbers (2010), Numbers (2011), Numbers (2012) |
| Robert Paul Weston | Great Britain | Zorgamazoo (2012) |
| Floortje Zwigtman | Netherlands | Wolfsrudel (2006) / Wolfsroedel (2002), Ich, Adrian Mayfield (2008) / Tegenspel (2007), Adrian Mayfield - An attempt at a love (2009) / Schijnbewegingen (2008), Adrian Mayfield - Auf Leben und Tod (2011) / Spiegeljongen (2008) |
General
In 2012 the ilb took place from September 4th to 16th, 2012, the events of the children and youth program from September 3rd to 15th, 2012. 27 authors and illustrators were invited.
Chen Jianghong had to cancel his festival participation at short notice. For the festival participation of the guests, texts by Mariana Chiesa Mateos , Enzo , Maria Papayanni and Farideh Chalatbarie were translated by the festival. As a German premiere, authors and illustrators presented the following books: Bus ride into the unknown (Farideh Chalatbarie), Fate is a lousy traitor ( John Green ), The magical tree (Maria Papayanni), Dilip and the Big Bang and what happened to us afterwards ( Salah Naoura ), Student 34 in class A ( Enzo ) for one year , Miss Esther's last performance - A story from the Warsaw Ghetto ( Adam Jaromir , Gabriela Cichowska ), No time to play (Mariana Chiesa Mateos), My friend Mia ( Peter Pohl ) , Migration (Mariana Chiesa Mateos), Model Student Monster ( Enzo ), As Through Magic (Maria Papayanni), Wolves and People (Farideh Chalatbarie) and Zorgamazoo ( Robert Paul Weston ). A retrospective took place with an event on JRR Tolkien's book The Hobbit .
The Haus der Berliner Festspiele was with three stages (Main Stage, side stage and rehearsal stage) the main venue of the program type. In addition, various events took place in cultural centers (The Yellow Villa, Ilse Demme Gardening School, Pump Youth Culture Center, Schwarzkopf Foundation Young Europe , Weinmeisterhaus, Jacoby & Stuart Publishing House), museums ( Anne Frank Center , German Historical Museum , Flying Theater, Picture Gallery , Museum European cultures , Pergamon Museum ) and theaters ( Deutsches Theater , Grips-Theater , Neukölln Opera , Schaubude, Schwules Museum , Theater an der Parkaue ). The cooperation partners included: Berlin Literature Initiative, Institute for German and Dutch Philology at the Free University of Berlin , JugendKulturService, Le Matou - International Children's and Mail Order Bookstore, Kreuzberg Children's Foundation , Meetings of Young Authors .
As in previous years, Škoda Auto was the main sponsor of the children and youth program. In addition, the children's and youth program was funded by various other institutions, including the ViVaVostok program - children's and youth literature from Central and Eastern Europe of the Robert Bosch Foundation .
As part of a cooperation with a seminar of the Institute for German and Dutch Philology at the Free University of Berlin , exclusive teaching material was created for various books by the guest authors and illustrators. This teaching material was made available to the students participating in the festival free of charge (list is incomplete):
| Author or illustrator | book | Teaching material for grade level created by the Free University of Berlin |
|---|---|---|
| Farideh Chalatbarie | The Jackal at the Lion's Court (2011) | 1-3 |
| Chen Jianghong | At Grandfather's Hand - My Childhood in China (2009) | 4-6 |
| Adam Jaromir | Zarafa (2009) | 3-4 |
| Adam Jaromir , Gabriela Cichowska | Fantje (2010) | 1 |
Special offers
Project Frerk, you dwarf! -Theatre
As a co-production of the Neukölln Opera and the ilb, the children's opera Frerk, du Zwerg! Premiere at the ilb.
Student moderation project
Since 2007 there has been a cooperation between the Berlin Literature Initiative (BLI) and the children and youth program of the ilb . In the course of a BLI literature workshop, schoolchildren work on the books by the festival authors and then moderated their readings. During the 2012 festival, the cooperation was expanded to include three events moderated by students.
Project master class
For the first time in 2012 , the ilb organized a Berlin master class together with the young authors' meeting , in which the festival's authors hold master classes for young authors from the young writer's meeting . The first two master classes took place under the direction of Nils Mohl and Priya Basil during the first festival weekend in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele .
Book fair host country
As in previous years, an author from the current guest country at the Frankfurt Book Fair, 2012 New Zealand, was a guest: Kate De Goldi .
Project A story for Europe
As part of a promotion by the program Culture of Education and Culture of the European Commission found in 2012 in the context of children's and youth program not only lectures and workshops, but also various trade panels for expert public, under the theme of a story for Europe - Which children - and does Europe need youth literature? stood. Part of this project was the establishment of a library for young Europeans , which consists of book recommendations from the invited authors and illustrators and which was exhibited during the festival in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele. The following books are part of the library for young Europeans :
| Author or illustrator | Recommended book title | Author or illustrator of the recommended book |
|---|---|---|
| Azouz Begag | Vol de Nuit (1931) / Night Flight (1960) | Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
| Farideh Chalatbarie | Me and My Friends (2006) | Farideh Chalatbarie |
| Chen Jianghong | Troubled Peter (1845) | Heinrich Hoffmann |
| Mariana Chiesa Mateos | Het Achterhuis - Dagboekbrieven (1947) / Diary of Anne Frank (1950) and Migrando (2010) | Anne Frank and Mariana Chiesa Mateos |
| Iwona Chmielewska | A Birthday (2007) | Doris Meisner-Johannknecht and Melanie Kemmler |
| Gabriela Cichowska | Mirror (2010) | Jeannie Baker |
| Dibou | Gone with the wind (1936) / Gone with the Wind (1937) | Margaret Mitchell |
| Enzo | O Alquimista (1988) / The Alchemist (1991) | Paulo Coelho |
| Kate De Goldi | The Red Shoe | Ursula Dubosarsky |
| Golo | Treasure Island (1881) / Treasure Island (1897) | Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Finn-Ole Heinrich | De baas van alles (2007) / Who is the boss here? (2011) | Bart Moeyaert |
| Tendai Huchu | Fahrenheit 451 (1953) | Ray Bradbury |
| Adam Jaromir | Couleurs du jour (2010) / Colors of the day (2010) | Květa Pacovská |
| Gerald Jatzek | The Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book (1951) | Iona Opie and Peter Opie |
| Jan De Leeuw | Dance on my Grave (1982) / Dance on my Grave (1984) | Aidan Chambers |
| Nils Mohl | La vie commune. Essai d'anthropologie générale (1995) / The Adventure of Living Together (1998) | Tzvetan Todorov |
| Salah Naoura | Alabama Moon (2006) | Watt Key |
| Uri Orlev | Bambi (1923) | Felix Salten |
| Maria Papayanni | Odyssey | Homer |
| Maria Parr | Ronja Rövardotter (1981) / Ronja (1982) | Astrid Lindgren |
| Peter Pohl | Mio, min Mio (1954) / Mio, my Mio (1955) | Astrid Lindgren |
| Iva Procházková | The Wall (2007) / The Wall (2007) | Peter Sís |
| Janne Teller | A History of Western Philosophy (1945) / Philosophy of the Occident (1950) | Bertrand Russell |
| Rachel Ward | The golden compass (1995) / The golden compass (1998) | Philip Pullman |
| Robert Paul Weston | Momo (1973) | Michael Ende |
| Floortje Zwigtman | Junk (1996) | Melvin Burgess |
Press review
“You immediately know where the wind is blowing from: We are dealing with a bard, with one of those poets who are firmly convinced that children should have one thing above all else: their own mind. After the third chord it also turns out: Gerald Jatzek has got the hang of it, he knows how to lure children out of the reserve and contacts them immediately. And finally, when Jatzek performs the song of the ancestress from his 'Raubauken-Rhimen', the lion is completely loose. The children sing along and squeal with pleasure - even those who appeared with diligent parents and in their ironed shirts. Because this is not about education, but about dissolute manners: 'The ancestor of Burg Glockenhaus never takes off her socks. She wears the same gray pair for the two hundred and twelve year. '"
“When groups of schoolchildren and their teachers stream into the Berliner Festspiele from all directions, one thing is clear: the Berlin International Literature Festival has begun. This September, at the 12th edition of the festival, the International Children's and Young People's Literature section once again grew strongly. 27 authors and illustrators from all over the world gave each other the handle; Authors who have a name in the international children's and youth literature scene, but also those who can still be discovered in this country. "
“He also writes poetry, says the moderator. He could now read one. There is silence over the hall, not a devout one, rather a frightened one. Salah Naoura just read from Dilip and the Big Bang so funny . This is a book about a nine-year-old boy who suddenly has a brother, an adopted man from India, who stirs up the family. And now something like that. The man even knows his poems by heart and begins: "You are so wonderfully wicked" - and has already captured the 400 children in front of him again. "I don't know what that is about either / I think you suck up." So that's how it sounds when monsters declare their love for each other. When he asks if he should read something from the book, he yells “Yeah!”. The premiere was a success. Salah Naouras , because he read from this book for the first time, that of the International Literature Festival Berlin , because it is the first event on the big stage in the Haus der Berliner Festspiele on Monday morning. "
Web links
- Website , Facebook presence , Twitter presence and YouTube presence of the children and youth program
- Program booklet 2012