Read hear
Reading.Hearing ( spelling : read.hearing ) is a literature festival in Mannheim . It has taken place every spring since 2007 in the Alte Feuerwache cultural center . The focus is on contemporary German-language literature.
How the Heidelberg Literature Days and the Europa Morgen Land is reading. Listening series are part of the cultural life in the European metropolitan region of Rhine-Neckar .
history
The occasion for the foundation of the literary festival was the 400th anniversary of the city of Mannheim in 2007. The series of literary events opened with a reading by the Georg Büchner Prize winner Wilhelm Genazino , who was born in Mannheim . Since then it has been held annually from the end of February to the beginning of March. The readings are complemented by moderation and discussion with leading critics from German-language feature articles.
From 2007 to 2015, Roger Willemsen was the patron and moderator for the Mannheim Literature Festival. From 2013 Willemsen also worked as a program manager and presented “more themed evenings, stage talks and dialogues with other art forms such as photography and music”. Insa Wilke has been the program manager since 2016 .
In 2009, a festival for children's and youth literature was also launched in cooperation with the Mannheim City Library .
The literature festival is financed by sponsors from business and the public sector (City of Mannheim, State of Baden-Württemberg). In 2007, 15 events were offered, which attracted 3,000 listeners; by 2015 the literature festival had a total of over 36,500 visitors. In 2018, 15 events for adults and 19 for children and young people are planned.
Authors (selection)
The following authors, among others, have been guests at the Mannheim literature festival since 2007:
Roger Willemsen in Mannheim, 2008
Sigrid Löffler at read.hearing 3, 2009
Julia Zange at read.hearing 4, 2010
July toe at read.hear 5, 2011
Fritz J. Raddatz at read.hearing 6, 2012
Web links
- read.hear 10 (2016). In: Kulturzentrum Alte Feuerwache (with links to all programs)
- read.hear 11 (2017). In: Old fire station
- Video: Mannheim: Literature festival “read.hear” for the first time without Roger Willemsen. In: Rhein-Neckar TV , February 8, 2016, 0:34 min.
Individual evidence
- ↑ read a b. Listen - literature festival in Mannheim. In: City of Mannheim , February 22, 2015, accessed on December 18, 2017.
- ↑ Sabine Scheltwort: Mannheim Literature Festival: It gets funny and sad too. Roger Willemsen selected the program for "Reading.Hearing 8". ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ). In: RNZ , December 18, 2013.
- ↑ a b Joana Rettig: Diversity of topics - from politics to sexism to entertainment. In: Mannheimer Morgen , December 5, 2017.
- ↑ a b “read.hear” literary festival in Mannheim under the patronage of Roger Willemsen, started until March 6, 2011. In: Society Friends of the Arts (GFDK), February 19, 2011.