Literary marathon
The literary marathon is a 24-hour reading of novels and poems, which is organized and broadcast once a year at the start of the lit.COLOGNE literature festival by radio station WDR5 . From 10 p.m. on Friday evening to 10 p.m. on Saturday evening, actors, speakers and celebrities will read books on a main topic live in front of an audience. As a rule, there are a total of around one hundred texts proposed by WDR5 listeners and selected by the editorial team.
subjects
- 2003: Around the world in 100 books
- 2004: 100 books. The literary marathon
- 2005: 100 books - 100 years. 1901-2000
- 2006: 100 books about the World Cup
- 2007: 100 books - underworlds
- 2008: 100 books - dreams
- 2009: 100 books - 100 festivals
- 2010: 100 books - 100 cities
- 2011: 100 books - women
- 2012: 100 favorite books
- 2013: 100 books - 100 relationships
- 2014: 100 books - 100 men
- 2015: 100 books on water
- 2016: 100 books about love
- 2017: 100 books about travel
- 2018: 100 books from a new beginning
- 2019: 100 books for life