Baden-Württemberg State Literature Days prominently featured – Ettlingen

by Mayra December 21, 2024

written by Mayra December 21, 2024

Jagoda Marini, Christine Westermann, Navid Kermani, Ilija Trojanow, Florian Schroeder are expected at the Literaturtage from March 13th to April 5th in Ettlingen.

Under the motto “Home(s)”, the three-week program offers around 25 events. The main theme is based on the award-winning graphic novel “Heimat”. Karlsruhe native author and illustrator Nora Krug. An open-air exhibition in Horbachpark Ettlingen will be showing excerpts from this book from March 13th to May 2nd, which deals with the family history of the German-American author and illustrator during the Nazi era in Karlsruhe.

A focus of the festival is on authors with a migration background. Navid Kermani and Ilija Trojanow are guests, two citizens of the world who describe cultural connections in a fabulous and poetic way in their works and help to better understand the conflicts between cultures. You are among the most important authors of contemporary German literature.

Jagoda Marini in conversation

The Literature Days will open on March 13th at 7 p.m. in the Schlossgartenhalle Ettlingen with Jagoda Marini, star of the literary scene and cultural journalist of the year 2022. In a book discussion, she will give insights into her work “Gentle Radicality,” in which she explores the question “How is change happening locally?”. She will also read from her classic “Restaurant Dalmatia,” which the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung” honored as a “monument to the so-called guest workers.”

The best-selling author, book critic and podcaster Christine Westermann will tell how books became her home in a reading from “The Families of Others” on March 16th. Writer Ilija Trojanow knows what it means to leave your homeland. As a child he fled Bulgaria with his family. An experience that still haunts him today. In “After the Escape” on March 20th in the Schlossgartenhalle he cleverly reflects on his own influences as a lifelong refugee.

Iliya Trojanov

“Heute show” author Manuel Butt will be a guest on March 21st with his humorous debut novel “Zierfische in Handen von Idioten”, and Cornelia Tomaschko will present her book “Mein Südschwarzward” on March 27th, with musical accompaniment by Volker Schäfer Guitar. “In the other direction now” is the name of Navid Kermani’s new book, which he will talk about with cultural journalist Shirin Sojitrawalla on March 30th. On April 3rd, Annette Pehnt will read from her book “The Dirty Woman,” and on April 5th, SWR presenter Stephanie Haiber and cabaret artist Florian Schroeder will talk about his bestseller “Among Insanes. Why we need evil.”

In addition to classic readings and book discussions, the Literature Days also offer author cinema, a poetry slam, concerts, a paper and book flea market, a castle culture night and a library night with quizzes, board games, workshops and a literary show with Markus Jeroch and his language acrobatics. For children there is, among other things, a story festival and Paul Maar’s classic children’s book “Das Sams” as a theater.

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Tickets and the program are available online at ettlingen.de/literaturtage, tickets are also available from the Ettlingen Tourist Information Office, telephone 07243 101-333, and from the RHEINPFALZ Ticket Service.