Munich Literature Festival
The Munich Literature Festival is an international literary event , a festival that has been held every year since 2010 from the end of November to the beginning of December for almost three weeks at various venues in Munich . It includes the literary program forum: autoren , which is curated by changing authors, the Munich Book Show in Gasteig and the festival program of the Munich Literature House with the market of independent publishers “The country needs other books”. In addition, the Geschwister-Scholl-Prize , the prize for a small Bavarian publisher and the municipal television prize LiteraVision are awarded as part of the literature festival.
Emergence
As part of the redesign of the city's International Spring Book Week, which took place a total of 16 times from 1990 to 2008, the cooperation partners - the City of Munich, the Munich Literature House and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels - Landesverband Bayern eV - decided to launch the new forum: autoren program and to bundle already existing literary initiatives in the autumn in the Munich Literature Festival. The Munich Literature Festival sees itself as the literary highlight in the city's annual cultural calendar.
Components
The forum: autoren in the first week of the literary festival is curated by an annually changing writer and designed at their own discretion, i.e. he or she chooses a motto, the event formats and the authors, artists and scholars who follow Munich to be invited.
Curators
- 2010 Ilija Trojanow with "local: global"
- 2011 Matthias Politycki with "The World in German"
- 2012 Thea Dorn with "Out into the Unknown!"
- 2013 Dagmar Leupold with “Stadt Land Fluss. Stories from the Present "
- 2014 Clemens Meyer with "In danger and greatest need, the middle path brings death"
- 2015 Albert Ostermaier with "front: text"
- 2016 Elke Schmitter with "one word gives the other"
- 2017 Doris Dörrie with “Alles Echt. All fiction "
- 2018 Jan Wagner with “Beautiful Babel. European readings "
- 2019 Ingo Schulze (author) with "Exercises in Paradise. Questions to the world after 1989"
- In 2020, Nora Gomringer was scheduled to be the curator. However, the literature festival was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany . However, the book show takes place.
The Munich Book Show extends over the entire duration of the literary festival, a total of 18 days, and takes place in the Munich cultural center Gasteig. It has been organized since 1959 by the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels - Landesverband Bayern eV in cooperation with the cultural department of the city of Munich .
The focus of the book show is the largest regional book exhibition by German-language publishers with around 20,000 new publications and longsellers; there is also a broad supporting program with national and international authors of different genres for adults, children and school classes.
Well -known authors read from their new publications at the festival program of the Literaturhaus München . On the last weekend of the festival, around 30 German-speaking independent publishers present themselves and their programs at the “Other books the country needs” market. Since 2009, the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art has been awarding the prize, endowed with € 7,500, for a small Bavarian publisher .
Quotes and press reviews
“Munich Literature Festival was such a joy to be a part of! I loved how it integrated the many cultural organizations and institutions of the city into the festival itself, how there was a mix of music with readings, readings and talks with varied disciplines. And how attentive and interested the city residents were at the various offerings of events. Forget Oktoberfest, the best of Munich is literature festival! "
“This new literary festival was a fabulously organized global gathering of voices and the magic of words. Keep it up, at full speed. We are nothing without culture. "
“The Festival in Munich was a great experience and adventure. I met with writers from Germany and Africa who suddenly appeared as very close to me, just kindred spirit! It was amazing. And my readings were so perfectly organized. I want to specially thank the audience, people were unbelievable, so smart, so understanding and friendly! I'll keep memories of these days in Munich in a very inmost core of my heart. "
"Literature on all channels - the 2011 Literature Festival also found its way into schools and university, into the heads and hopefully into the hearts of the people in Munich, a touch-up event, of course in a figurative sense."
“Fortunately, Munich did not rest on its own clichés at the first literary festival: no celebrating local heroes, no self-image of the city. The focus was actually on literature. "
financing
The Munich Literature Festival is financed and organized by the Munich Literature House and the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels - Landesverband Bayern eV in cooperation with the Cultural Department of the City of Munich. It is supported by the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture, Science and Art and by changing supporters and sponsors, including the Federal Cultural Foundation , Datev and media partners such as Bayern 2 .
Web links
- Website of the Munich Literature Festival
- Blog of the Munich Literature Festival
- Website of the Literaturhaus München
- Website of the Munich Book Show
- Website of the cultural department of the city of Munich
Individual evidence
- ↑ International Spring Book Week since 1990 on fruehjahrsbuchwoche.de (archive)
- ^ Literature Festival Munich - November 19 to December 7, 2014 on muenchen.de
- ↑ https://www.literaturfest-muenchen.de/forum-autoren
- ↑ https://www.literaturfest-muenchen.de accessed on August 3, 2020
- ↑ 57th MUNICH BOOKS SHOW. Retrieved February 29, 2016 .
- ^ Literature prizes of the Free State of Bavaria. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on June 27, 2015 ; accessed on February 29, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ a b The program of the literature festival 2010. Archived from the original on May 28, 2014 ; accessed on February 29, 2016 .
- ^ The 2nd Munich Literature Festival 2011. Archived from the original on May 28, 2014 ; accessed on February 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of December 7, 2010.
- ↑ Organizer / sponsor at: literaturfest-muenchen.de, accessed on January 6, 2016
