Leipzig literary autumn
The Leipzig literary autumn is a literature festival in Leipzig . It takes place annually in October. Over a period of about a week, literary and cultural-political encounters can be experienced, in whose discussion forums national and international authors read at different locations within the city and exchange views on important and current topics.
history
The Leipzig literary autumn was founded in 1991 by active board members of the Association of German Writers (VS) in the IG Medien and until 2003 it was held annually. The most important motive was to found a forum for encounters, which enables literary and cultural professionals to critically examine pressing problems and questions of the present. Due to the withdrawal of public sponsors from funding, the festival was discontinued in 2003 and only revived in 2009 under the name “textenet”. After its successful resumption, the reading festival has officially been run again since 2010 under the name “Leipzig literary autumn”.
The following list contains all Leipzig literary autumns with topic, leading organizations and people in chronological order.
| year | Subject | Lead organization | Project management |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 1. The poetics of resistance | VS Saxony | Hubert Witt |
| 1992 | 2. Write today | City of Leipzig Cultural Office Friedrich Ebert Foundation | responsible employee |
| 1993 | 3. Germany in Europe | VS Saxony | Hubert Witt |
| 1994 | 4. Children. Youth. world | Friedrich Bödecker District of Saxony | Roswitha Kuhnert |
| 1995 | 5th generations | VS Saxony | Hubert Witt |
| 1996 | 6. Eve and Adam | VS Saxony | Regine Möbius |
| 1997 | 7. Passages | Free Academy of Arts | Ingrid Czechowski, Peter Geist |
| 1998 | 8. Fantastic prospects | Free literary society | Friedemann Berger, Steffen Mohr |
| 1999 | 9. On the fly: writing | Culture Office City of Leipzig | Alexander Korund, Sibille Tröml. Jan Zänker |
| 2000 | 10. loud & stil.le | Culture Office City of Leipzig | Christian Hussel |
| 2001 | 11. Native - moved out | City of Leipzig Cultural Office | Thomas Wegmann |
| 2002 | 12. Or related | City of Leipzig Cultural Office | Thomas Wegmann |
| 2009 | 13. text | VS Saxony | Steffen Birnbaum, Bertram Reinecke |
| 2010 | 14. Are we east or west? | VS Saxony | Steffen Birnbaum, Ralf Pannowitsch |
| 2011 | 15. Focus on literature - Germany and its neighbors | VS Saxony | Steffen Birnbaum, Regine Möbius |
| 2012 | 16. Outlook - What will we read tomorrow? | ||
| 2013 | 17. Thinking ahead about Europe | ||
| 2014 | 18. WEST-EASTERN DIVAN: 25 Years of Peaceful Revolution | ||
| 2015 | 19th Leipzig Livre - Leipzig 1000 |
Since the reading festival resumed in 2009, international and national authors such as Jonathan Franzen , Dorothee Elmiger , Mario Levi , Helle Helle , Boualem Sansal , Volker Braun , Katja Lange-Müller , Thomas Rosenlöcher , Artur Becker and John von Düffel have been part of the Leipziger's program literary autumn.
Organization and financing
The reading festival has been organized by the Association of German Writers (VS) in ver.di - the State Association of Saxony, in alternating cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung , the Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis , the Free Academy of Arts in Leipzig , the Free Literature Society, the author syndicate and since 2010 with the Kulturwerk deutscher Schriftsteller in Sachsen e. V., supported by associations, publishers, literary multipliers and associations. The Leipzig literary autumn is financed by public funds from the city's cultural office and the Saxon cultural foundation. Contributing partners are u. a. the Leipziger Volkszeitung , the Saxon Literature Council, the MDR , the Moritzbastei and the Literaturhaus Leipzig . The project management of the Leipzig literary autumn consists of two heads. The permanent project manager has been the writer Steffen Birnbaum since 2010. The changing project management took on the translator Ralph Pannowitsch in 2010 and the writer Regine Möbius in 2011 . The literary translator Franka Reinhart took over the co-project management for the 22nd Leipzig literary autumn 2018.
swell
- Deutschlandradio Kultur website from October 5, 2010
- News archive of the city of Leipzig from October 6, 2011
- Website of the MDR-MDR Figaro ( memento of October 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) of October 24, 2011
- Website of the MDR - MDR Saxony from October 19, 2011
- Article on the LVZ-Online website from October 18, 2011
- Free Press website from October 18, 2011
- Ralph Grüneberger: Leipzig literary autumn. A literary festival in its tenth year. Published in: Leipziger Blätter Nr. 37, Leipzig 2000, pp. 22–23
Individual evidence
- ↑ News archive of the city of Leipzig ( Memento of the original from October 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from September 15, 2010
