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Man-made
Anthropocene
The last age?
Weltempfang –
Centre for Politics,
Literature and Translation
Hall 4.1 B 81
buchmesse.de/weltempfang
#fbm19Wednesday
Dear friends of the Weltempfang at Frankfurter Buchmesse, WEDNESDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2019 also affected, both on the creative
and consumer side. How powerfully
12.00 – 1.00 pm, Stage are AI decisions already influencing
This year’s Weltempfang is dedicated to the relationship between culture Cultural Anthropocene: Nature
and
the book market today? Are auto-
and nature. The concept of a human-made epoch – the Anthropocene – On our way towards a culture
matized processes involved in the
has entered the language, and our influence on “our” planet is increasing European cultural policy? reading and buying of books causing
visibly. While there is no scientific confirmation of the Anthropocene, there Panel discussion (DE/EN/FR) us to lose control over our data? Can
is undeniable evidence of present-day problems related to micro-plastics, Nationalist and populist parties are software identify bestsellers before
over-fishing, increased soil sealing, loss of biodiversity, weather changes and whipping up anti-European senti- they are even published? If so, how
many other issues. Human beings, once at the mercy of nature, have become ment. To highlight the importance of is this changing books and the book
actors. By this point, we are leaving our mark all the way high up into the culture as a unifying force, Germany industry?
Himalayas and miles down into the oceans. We are laying claim to territory and France are founding cultural ins-
beyond the boundaries of our planet. The anticipated leaps in science and titutes together. What opportunities / Participants: Ralf Winkler,
technology (such as artificial intelligence, for example) will offer people new and risks does this present? How will managing director of the
possibilities to seize nature as an object and to (ab)use it. In turn, there is these institutes position themselves software company QualiFiction
increased general awareness about complex interdependencies on and substantively? How will they evolve / Maria Hummitzsch, deputy chair
within nature and planetary processes, about the sensitivity of entire eco- from a bilateral into a European of the German Literary Translators’
systems, about things we have lost, about phenomena that cannot be project? Does a common European Association
grasped or controlled. culture even exist and, if so, what / Yvonne Hofstetter, Author,
does it consist of and how can it be Theodor-Heuss-Prize 2018
To what extent have human beings become the main influence on nature promoted? / Moderator: Lena Falkenhagen,
and to what extent are we subject to its processes? Where are the limits federal chair, German Writers’
of growth? What happens afterwards? How do human beings choose to / Participants: Irmgard Maria Fellner, Association
describe themselves within nature and nature itself? Aren’t we ultimately director for cultural relations policy / Cooperation: German Writers’
saving not nature but rather ourselves – entirely in keeping with a strategy and deputy director-general of the Association
of survival? It is these questions and others that we wish to explore at the department for culture and com-
Weltempfang 2019 – and I cordially invite you to join us. munication at the German Federal
Foreign Office
With best regards, / Sandra Richter, director of the
Marbach Literature Archive
/ Paul de Sinety, director of the office 1.30 – 2.30 pm, Stage
for the French language at the Presentation of the 2019 Überset-
French Ministry of Culture zerbarke (“Translators’ Barque”)
/ Moderator: Angela Joosten, Award ceremony (DE/EN)
owner of Euro-Informationen Every year, the German Literary Trans-
Tobias Voss / Cooperation: German Federal lators’ Association recognises individu-
Frankfurter Buchmesse, Foreign Office als and institutions that have made an
Vice President Foreign Affairs and outstanding contribution in the field
Project Manager Weltempfang of translation. The 2019 Translators’
Barque goes to the bookshop Buch-
handlung Christiansen in Hamburg.
For many years, Christiansen has pro-
vided a stage for literary translations
1.00 – 2.00 pm, Salon through regular, always well-attended
AI in the Book Industry – translation events, awakening – and
Organisation and implementation: reality or fiction? keeping awake – the reading public’s
Litprom e. V. Panel discussion (DE) interest in translations.
Joscha Hekele Artificial intelligence influences many
Phone: +49 (0) 69 2102-250 For the latest information: aspects of life – without always being / Participants: Sigrid Lemke, book-
E-Mail: hekele@buchmesse.de buchmesse.de/weltempfang visible. Books as a cultural asset are seller, Buchhandlung ChristiansenWednesday Wednesday | Thursday
/ Patricia Klobusiczky, laudatory 3.00 – 4.00 pm, Stage / Participants: Dr Friederike Otto, Anthropocene” (Routledge) in 2019
address, chair of the German Sick Attitude: The human- and
Nature
acting director of the Environmental / Dr Carlo Sgarzi, University of Florence,
Literary Translators’ Association animal relationship in culture
Change Institute, Oxford University co-organiser of the exhibition “La
/ Cooperation: German Literary industrial livestock production / Prof Harald Welzer, director of Nazione delle Piante: XXII Triennale
Translators’ Association Podium talk (DE/EN/FR) Futurzwei – Stiftung Zukunftsfähig- di Milano” about plant behaviour
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo’s novel keit and professor of transformation / Moderator: Prof Pierre Monnet,
“Tierreich” (“Animaldom”) recounts design at the University of Flensburg historian, director of the Institut
the fate of a pig-farming family and / Maja Lunde, Norwegian author of franco-allemand IFRA and president
how a farm develops into a mass- “The History of Bees“ and “The End of EUNIC-Frankfurt
breeding operation. By cruelly ex- of the Ocean“, amongst other books / Cooperation: EUNIC-Frankfurt
2.30 – 3.30 pm, Salon ploiting animals as a resource, human / Moderator: Jenny Friedrich-Freksa,
Four Seconds and It’s Nature
and
beings are becoming increasingly editor-in-chief of the magazine
All Over? The Anthro- culture
removed from nature. How can this “Kulturaustausch”
pocene – the age of humans development be stopped through / Welcome address: Juergen Boos,
Panel discussion (DE) up-to-date agricultural policies? director of Frankfurter Buchmesse
If you were to condense the history What are its consequences? / Dr. Andreas Görgen, ministerial 10.30 – 12.30 am, Salon
of Earth into a single day, modern director, director general for culture Transparent Translator
humans would only show up four / Participants: Jean-Baptiste Del and communication at the German Interactive presentations (DE)
seconds before the end of the day. Amo, author of the novel “Tierreich” Federal Foreign Office In 1972, the ground-breaking author of
And yet, human beings have been (Matthes & Seitz 2019) / Cooperation: German Federal For- fantasy fiction Ursula K. Le Guin wrote
the decisive factor in the global / Robert Habeck, federal chair of eign Office, Frankfurter Buchmesse “The Word for World Is Forest”, a novel
ecosystem at least since the Industrial Alliance 90/The Greens about the predatory interplanetary
Revolution. What are the consequen- / Moderator: Cord Riechelmann, exploitation of nature by terrestrial
ces of this, how can future climate journalist and author colonisers. Le Guin died last year, and
policy be shaped and who should / Cooperation: Institut Français Karen Nölle is re-translating many of
determine it? Deutschland, LCB the late author’s books into German,
including “The Word for World Is
/ Participants: Anna Sophie Springer THURSDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2019 Forest”. Today, you can watch the
(TBC), independent curator, author process, ask about and participate
and co-publisher of intercalations, 10.30 – 11.30 am, Stage in it: translation made transparent.
a series of publications on nature Facing the Anthropocene and Nature
and cultures in the Anthropocene 4.30 – 5.30 pm, Stage Together: European culture
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articipant: Karen Nölle, translator
/ Christoph Rosol, research scholar Opening of the Welt- Nature
and
perspectives from the English (of Annie Dillard,
at the Max Planck Institute for the empfang: The Anthro- culture
Panel discussion (DE/EN/FR) Janet Frame, Doris Lessing and
History of Science, Berlin, with a re- pocene: Does culture trump nature? Human beings are at once more po- Alice Munro, amongst others)
search focus on media technologies Panel discussion (DE/EN) werful and more powerless than ever. /C
ooperation: German Literary
/ Moderator: Tobias Asmuth, journalist The relationship between culture To ensure the survival of our species, Translators’ Association
for (amongst others) Neue Zürcher and nature had changed. Human we need to find new solutions. What
Zeitung, Berliner Zeitung, brand eins influence on “our” planet is increasing might these look like in an internati-
/ Cooperation: Federal Agency for visibly; human beings have become onal and interdisciplinary context?
Civic Education (bpb) actors. Yet the climate doesn’t care. What opportunities are there for
How are human beings choosing to abandoning paths we are already on?
describe themselves within nature and 12.00 – 1.00 pm, Stage
nature itself? How can processes be / Participants: Prof Catherine Larrère, N-word and Gender Gap: How
steered? Ultimately, aren’t we saving taught at the Sorbonne and, in 2018, politically correct are translations?
not nature but rather ourselves – published “Penser l’anthropocène” Panel discussion (DE/EN)
entirely in keeping with a strategy (Sciences-Po) What does James Baldwin’s “Ameri-
of survival? / Prof Manuel Arias Maldonado, can Negro” become in German?
University of Malaga, published What should we call the fugitive slave
“Rethinking the Environment for the in Mark Twain’s “Huckleberry Finn”?Thursday Thursday
Which gender-neutral German / Dr Claudia Schmölders, cultural 2.30 – 3.30 pm, Salon / Participants: Andrea Zederbauer,
pronouns should, say, a New York theorist, lecturer and journalist Between Nature and Nature
and
editor, co-publisher of the Austrian
LGBTQ activist use? Can we, should / Moderator: Ronald Grätz, Technology: Visions of culture
magazine “Wespennest”
we and may we apply present-day secretary-general of the Institute the future from China / Audun Lindholm, editor and
standards to texts from the 1950s or for Foreign Cultural Relations (ifa) Talk (DE/CH) publisher of the Norwegian
19th century? And who decides this? / Cooperation: Institute for Foreign Climate change, pollution, rapidly newspaper “Vagant”
A conversation about translation Cultural Relations, German Music growing megacities. Chinese science / Şeyda Öztürk, editor of the Turkish
theory and practice. Council fiction also always responds to the newspaper “Cogito”
burning issues of the present. Chi Hui / Moderator: Réka Kinga Papp,
/ Participants: Miriam Mandelkow, imagines what might happen if peo- journalist, editor-in-chief of
translator from the English (of ple lose control over processes they “Eurozine”, the network of
James Baldwin, Richard Price and have set in motion. How far are we European cultural magazines
Ta-Nehisi Coates, amongst others) from these visions of the future from / Cooperation: “Eurozine”
/ Andreas Nohl, author, publisher China? Can we still save our world?
and translator from the English
(of Edgar Allan Poe and Rudyard 1.30 – 2.30 pm, Stage / Participants: Chi Hui, science fiction
Kipling, amongst others) Is Freedom of Speech Under writer; most recently, her short story
/ Mithu M. Sanyal, cultural theorist, Threat in Spain? “Das Insektennest” was published in
journalist, author (“Vergewaltigung. Panel discussion (DE/EN/SP) “Kapsel – Fantastische Geschichten 4.00 – 5.00 pm, Salon
Aspekte eines Verbrechens”) In the conflict over Catalonia, there aus China”, volume 1, Frühwerk Human-Thing-World: Nature
and
/ Moderator: Ingo Herzke, translator are charges of restrictions on freedom Verlag, 2017 A long road to the culture
from the English (of A. L. Kennedy and of speech. One rapper’s lyrics led to / Prof Song Mingwei, professor of Anthropocene
Gary Shteyngart, amongst others) a prison sentence, as did a tweet Chinese literature at Wellesley Panel discussion (DE)
/ Cooperation: German Literary about a murder that occurred in College and expert on science Human activity is and has been a
Translators’ Association 1973. The European Court of Human fiction from China decisive factor in history. For centuries,
Rights dismissed a decision due to / Moderator: Vera Tollmann, cultural human beings have been influencing
lese-majesty. What is the state of theorist, independent author and and changing our environment, above
freedom of speech in Spain? Is the research assistant at the University all through the things that we use and
country headed in the same direction of Hildesheim invent. Climate change, overexploita-
as Hungary or Poland? / Cooperation: “Kapsel Magazin”, tion of resources and environmental
1.00 – 2.00 pm, Salon Confucius Institute Frankfurt damage – but also resilience – are
Sound Diplomacy: Music opens worlds / Participants: Almudena Grandes, FU
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not exclusively modern phenomena.
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Panel discussion (DE) bestselling Spanish author of Did the Anthropocene begin much
FRAN KFURT AM MAIN
Music is said to have the power to (amongst other books) “Kleine earlier or is it really just a diagnosis
strengthen social cohesion, build Helden”, published in 2018 by of the current crisis?
bridges and heal trauma. But bad Carl Hanser Verlag
people have songs too. Music can / Annette Prosinger, editor of / Participants: Dr Sabine Wolfram,
create bogeymen and incite violence. “Welt am Sonntag“ director of the State Museum of
What potential does music have in / Moderator: Prof Carlos Collado Archaeology Chemnitz
international relations? Where can it Seidel, historian at the University of 3.00 – 4.00 pm, Stage / Prof Volker Moosbrugger, general
help and where is it misused? Marburg, former secretary-general Breaking the Bad News Nature
and
director of the Senckenberg Society
of the PEN Centre Germany Panel discussion (DE/EN) culture
for Nature Research
/ Participants: Prof Susanne Fontaine, / Cooperation: Instituto Cervantes Climate change seems too abstract / Prof Hans Peter Hahn, professor
professor of musicology and vice Frankfurt and supposedly leaves audiences “cold”. of ethnology at Goethe University
president of the Berlin University Is that true? Or is it just a media pre- Frankfurt
of the Arts conception? How can one report the / Moderator: Joachim Müller-Jung,
/ Prof Christian Höppner, secretary- bad news of the climate crisis effective- head of the nature and science
general of the German Music ly, without inciting apathy and losing desk at “FAZ”
Council, visiting professor of cello readers? What editorial practices do
at the Berlin University of the Arts European cultural magazines have?Thursday | Friday Friday
/ Cooperation: Roman-Germanic FRIDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2019 have on international (cultural) / Moderator: Prof Caroline Roeder,
Commission of the German relations? What approach do these professor at the Ludwigsburg
Archaeological Institute 10.30 – 11.30 am, Stage religious actors have? Where is the University of Education and head
Broken Nature: Human Nature
and
line between these movements and of the Centre for the Didactics of
beings’ relationship culture
populism? Literature: Children Youth Media
with nature / Cooperation: Institut français
Panel discussion (DE/EN) / Participants: Prof Heinrich Wilhelm Deutschland, Institut franco-
Humans’ relationship with nature is Schäfer, expert in the ifa research allemand IFRA
4.30 – 5.30 Uhr, Stage dysfunctional. How can design help programme “Culture and Foreign
Trends in Children’s Literature: us to give nature back what human Policy”, professor at the University
Arabic and German voices beings have taken from it and to re- of Bielefeld
Panel discussion (DE/EN/AR) establish our mutual connection? That / Dr Claudia Zilla, head of the research
Children’s books – their themes, nar- is the focus of the XXII International group “America” at the foundation
rative styles and design preferences – Exhibition of the Triennale di Milano, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik 12.00 – 1.00 pm, Stage
also always reflect the notions of entitled “Broken Nature”. And a similar / Moderator: Astrid Prange De Oli- More Than Words: Václav Havel –
childhood of their authors’ respective approach is also being taken by the veira, editor for the Brazilian desk winner of the 1989 Peace Prize
societies. What ideas are revealed in Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin in at Deutsche Welle Panel discussion (DE/EN)
contemporary children’s books from various other exhibition projects. / Cooperation: Institute for Foreign In October 1989, Václav Havel recei-
the Arab world versus Germany? Cultural Relations ved the Peace Prize of the German
What stories are being told? What role / Participants: Dr Lorenza Baroncelli, Booksellers Association, which he
does the everyday life of children – architect, researcher and curator, was unable to accept in person. The
and fantasy – play in them? artistic director of the Triennale in acceptance speech he wrote, “Words
Milan since 2018 on Words”, about the power of words
/ Participants: Hussain Al Mutawaa, / Prof Bernd M. Scherer, philosopher and using them responsibly, is more
writer and photographer, winner of and author, director of the Haus der 11.30 am – 12.30 pm, Salon relevant than ever today. What can
the 2019 Sheikh Zayed Book Award Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, where he Fridays for Future: Nature
and
we learn from history? How powerful
for the children’s book “I Dream of curated the Anthropocene project Picture books for the culture
are words? What are we allowed to
Being A Concrete Mixer” (Al Hadaek / Moderator: Dr Francesco Leone, next generation say today – and where and how?
Group, 2018) first counsellor of the Italian Talk (DE/FR)
/ Dr Christiane Raabe, head of the Embassy in Berlin What kinds of (picture) books can sa- / Participants: Hans Maier, political
International Youth Library, Munich / Cooperation: Italian Cultural tisfy children and parents’ increasing scientist
/ Stephan Trudewind, editor of Institute of Cologne and Berlin, interest in topics such as nature, envi- / Michael Žantovský, spokesman
children’s books from the Arab Italian Embassy in Berlin ronmental protection and biodiversi- and political advisor to President
world at Edition Orient ty? How can this interest be awoken Václav Havel (1990–1992), former
/ Moderator: Stefan Weidner, Arabist, when it isn’t already there? Two young ambassador
author and translator; his book authors from Germany and France / Alexander Aleksejewitsch Drozdow,
“1001 Buch. Literaturen des Orients” show how it can be done brilliantly. executive director of the Boris Yeltsin
was published by Edition Converso Presidential Centre in Yekaterinburg
in 2019 / Participants: Antje Damm, the “phi- / Moderator: Josef Joffe, publisher of
/ Cooperation: Sheikh Zayed Book 10.30 – 11.30 am, Salon losopher” of picture book authors, “DIE ZEIT”
Award, Litprom e. V. What Is Religion Doing in has been nominated for the 2019 / Cooperation: Ministry of Culture
Foreign Policy? German Children’s Literature Award of the Czech Republic, Moravian
Panel discussion (DE) with her book “Was wird aus uns?” Library in Brno, Václav Havel
Free churches, evangelical currents / Claire Lecoeuvre, scientific jour- Library Prague
and charismatic preachers are nalist committed to environmental
flourishing around the world and their protection; in 2017, Jacoby & Stuart
influence on politics is growing. Case published “Wüsten, Berge, Fjorde”,
in point: evangelicals support Jair a German translation of her book
Bolsonaro, the president of Brazil. “L’incroyable vie des paysages”
What impact do these developmentsFriday Friday
1.00 – 2.00 pm, Salon / Participants: Bonnie Greer, writer, which co-exist alongside dominant
Literary Translation: Profession, playwright, critic, commentator, ones in a dynamic characteristic of
art, labour of love? England European diversity. How vibrant are
Panel discussion (EN) / Jan Carson, writer and community they in terms of voices and world
What are the working conditions of project facilitator, Northern Ireland views they offer? How do they project
literary translators today? Have they / Patrick McGuiness, writer and themselves internationally and how
improved over the past decade? From academic, Wales 3.00 – 4.00 pm, Stage aware are they of literary production
visibility to contractual standards and / Moderator: Alexandra Büchler, What Would (World) Literature from elsewhere? The panellists discuss
remuneration, translators’ working director of Literature Across Be Without Translators? their literary scenes as authors and
conditions still vary considerably Frontiers, Wales Panel discussion (DE/EN) translators.
across Europe, while they are also / Cooperation: Literature Across Translations keeps world literature in
affected by European legislation and Frontiers motion, ensure dialogue and expand / Participants: Gabriele Haefs,
copyright law. The speakers share horizons. But what makes, say, Kafka’s German writer and translator from
their experiences and discuss the sta- “Castle” so interesting in the post- Irish and Norwegian
te of the translation industry today. Soviet space? Which works are in / Llŷr Gwyn Lewis, Welsh writer,
great demand globally and elicit poet and essayist
/P
articipants: Bel Olid, author and international interest? Which authors / Bel Olid, Catalan author and
translator into the Catalan, former 2.30 – 3.30 Uhr, Salon are remembered, and which forgotten? translator, president of the Catalan
member of the board of CEATL, European Street Parliaments: The Writers’ Association
Barcelona political power of street protests / Participants: Susanne Bader, / Moderator: Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones,
/T
anja Petrič, translator into Panel discussion (DE/FR) owner of the Freiburg bookshop Welsh academic, language and
Slovenian, Ljubljana In many places in Europe right now, “Zum Wetzstein” literature policy expert
/H
olger Fock, translator into the street protests are forming in critical / Elisabeth Edl, translator and multiple / Cooperation: German Literary
German, former president of CEATL, opposition to governments. From award-winning scholar of Romance Translators’ Association, Literature
Epfenbach France’s “yellow vests” all the way to languages and literature Across Frontiers, Weltlesebühne e. V.
/T
iziano Perez, Dutch Foundation Poland’s anti-PiS demonstrators and / Dr Charlotte Ryland, director of the
for Literature, Amsterdam the Frankfurt-based citizens’ initiative Stephen Spender Trust and Transla-
/M
oderator: Lawrence Schimel, Pulse of Europe, these national de- tion Exchange research initiative at
director, Dutch Foundation for monstrations are taking very different Oxford University
Literature, Amsterdam forms. What is their effect on the / Prof Sandra Richter, director of
/C
ooperation: European Network individual countries – and on Europe the German Literature Archive in
for Literary Translation ENLIT as a whole? Marbach; her book “Weltgeschichte
der Germansprachigen Literatur“ 4.30 – 5.30 pm, Stage
/ Participants: Piotr Buras, journalist, was published in 2017 Between Berlin and Wakanda
1.30 – 2.30 Uhr, Stage head of the Warsaw office of the Euro- / Moderator: Sandra Kegel, literary Panel discussion (DE/EN)
British Writers and Brexit pean Council on Foreign Relations; critic and editor, “Frankfurter Allge- The young generation of today’s
Panel discussion (DE/EN) up until 2012, Germany-based corres- meine Zeitung“ African artists is setting in motion not
The Brexit vote brought about a pondent for “Gazeta Wyborcza” / Cooperation: German Literature only their own national scenes but
political and constitutional crisis and / Dominique Reynié, director of Archive in Marbach cultural relations with other countries
opened a deep divide in British soci- the Fondation pour l’innovation outside the continent as well. They
ety. What is the background to what politique and professor of political are also networking intensely with
some consider the greatest democra- science at Sciences Po Paris German cultural figures. What do
tic exercise in British history and others / Daniel Röder, lawyer and co-foun- national and international initiatives
a dangerous triumph of populism, an der of the pro-European citizens’ accomplish and what role does the
attack of democracy that threatens initiative Pulse of Europe 4.00 – 5.00 pm, Salon Goethe-Institut play in the process?
to break up the United Kingdom and / Moderator: Manfred Sapper, Should we still speak about
sever its alliance with the rest of the political scientist, editor-in-chief “small“ language literatures? / Participants: Prof Klaus-Dieter
EU? Writers from England, Ireland and of the magazine “Osteuropa” Panel discussion (EN) Lehmann, president of the
Wales offer their perspectives on the / Cooperation: S. Fischer Foundation, Most European literatures are written Goethe-Institut
causes and impact of Brexit. Genshagen Foundation in “small” or “minority” languagesFriday | Saturday Saturday
/ Zukiswa Wanner, publisher and Roma; Central Council of German What does the same sentence sound / Milena Lazarević, programme
author from Kenya Sinti and Roma; International Roma like when uttered by a contemporary director at the Belgrade European
/ Philipp Khabo Koepsell, author Writers Association youth, an 18th-century author and Policy Centre, NGO and think-tank
and publisher, spoken word artist a child? Are famous sentences from for good governance and Serbian
/ Moderator: Amira El Ahl, journalist world literature open to new linguistic membership in the EU
for “Spiegel” and “Die Welt”, interpretations? An extremely enter- / Moderator: Srdjan Govedarica ,
amongst other publications taining translation workshop. correspondent for the Vienna/South
/ Cooperation: Goethe-Institut Eastern Europe studio of ARD
/ Participants: Peter Torberg, / Cooperation: German Federal
10.30 – 11.30 am, Salon translator from the English Foreign Office, TRADUKI
Diversity Under Threat in Europe? / Karin Betz, translator from the
Spotlight on Slavic and German Chinese, Spanish and English
minorities / Ingo Herzke, translator from the
SATURDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2019 Panel discussion (DE) English
Slavic Sorbs live in Germany and / Moderator: Annette Kopetzki,
10.30 – 11.30 am, Stage German-speaking groups in Eastern translator from the Italian, winner
Sinti and Roma Literature – Europe, both with centuries-long of the 2019 Paul Celan Prize 2019 1.30 – 2.30 pm, Stage
in Germany and the world histories. How are they seen by the / Cooperation: German Literary The Power of Utopia Nature
and
Panel discussion (DE/EN) majority societies in a time of renewed Translators’ Association Panel discussion (DE/EN/FR) culture
For centuries, the Sinti and Roma were nationalist rhetoric? Are their langu- Digitalisation, ecology, justice –
persecuted and murdered as outsi- ages and dialects dying out in the what are the global challenges of
ders. This resulted in their long literary course of globalisation? What is their the future? What role do art and
silence in the German-language regi- relationship with other minorities? culture play in the debate and de-
on, which only recently ended with the velopment of new perspectives?
publication of autobiographical texts, / Participants: Günther Rautz, PhD, 12.00 – 1.00 pm, Stage How can international cultural or-
in particular about experiences of head of the Institute for Minority Marriage of Convenience or True ganisations advance the discussion
the Holocaust. Yet Eastern European Rights in Bolzano Love? The EU and Western Balkan around questions about the future?
authors often produce fiction. What is / Bogna Koreng, studio head MDR candidates for EU membership Using examples, we will discuss the
the importance of this literature? And Bautzen, journalist and moderator for Panel discussion (DE/ALB/SR) effect of cultural figures’ ideas on
what potential does it have? the Sorbian Broadcasting Service Six South Eastern European countries discourses about civil society.
/ Dr Jozef Tancer, Germanist at are currently candidates for joining
/ Participants: Dr Beate Eder-Jordan, Comenius University in Bratislava the EU. How great is the love between / Participants: Johannes Ebert,
literary scholar at the University of who studies German minorities South Eastern Europe and the EU? secretary-general of the
Innsbruck and expert on Sinti and / Moderator: Pavel Polák, radio By joining the EU, both the Western Goethe-Institut
Roma literature journalist, Prague/Berlin Balkan countries and the EU hope to / Susanne Kennedy, stage director,
/ Erika Hornbogner, director of the / Cooperation: Institute for Foreign achieve greater stability. How impor- winner of the 2017 European
Klagenfurt-based publishing house Cultural Relations, German Culture tant and realistic is this expectation Theatre Prize
Drava, specialised in books on mig- Forum for Central and Eastern Europe in an EU struggling for direction and / Oulimata Gueye, journalist and
ration, minorities and multilingualism Western Balkan nations aspiring to curator
/ Ruždija Sejdović, Roma writer, national identity? / Moderator: Vladimir Balzer,
dramaturge and translator living journalist for Deutschlandfunk radio,
in Germany / Participants: Michael Roth, minister amongst others
/ Veijo Baltzar, author, playwright, of state for Europe in the German / Cooperation: Goethe-Institut
president of International Roma 12.00 – 2.00 pm, Salon Federal Foreign Office and
Writers Association Translation Slam commissioner for Franco-German
/ Moderator: Barbara Wahlster, Interactive presentation (DE) cooperation
head of the literature department Inspired ideas and a talent for / Majlinda Bregu, since 2019, secretary-
at Deutschlandradio Kultur improvisation are the driving forces general of the Regional Cooperation
/ Cooperation: Documentation and of translation. Watch translation Council (RCC) for South Eastern
Cultural Centre for German Sinti and challenges get solved on the spot: Europe and European integrationSaturday Saturday | Sunday
2.30 – 3.30 pm, Salon ned. How can this ongoing process / Participants: Jürgen Resch,
Populism Versus Democracy: What be organised and who should be executive director of Environmental
is happening in Latin America? involved? What forms of restitution Action Germany
Podium talk (DE/SP) should be considered and what role / Christian Bommarius, journalist and
The end of military dictatorships in can digitalisation and the creation of book author
many Latin American countries was replicas play in it? What might future / Eva Menasse, writer (TBC) SUNDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2019
followed by the development of binational and international collabo- / József Péter Martin, executive director
democratic structures. Yet populists rations look like? of Transparency International 10.30 – 11.30 am, Stage
from the right and left are once again Hungary Looking for Hope? On the human
erecting authoritarian systems – / Participants: Prof Rebekka Haber- / Moderator: Hartmut Bäumer, rights situation in Eritrea
as they did recently in Brazil and mas, professor for medieval and chair of Transparency International Panel discussion (DE/EN)
Nicaragua. How are writers from Latin modern history at Georg August Deutschland Does the peace agreement between
America dealing with these political University in Göttingen / Cooperation: Transparency Ethiopia and Eritrea mean there
changes and uncertainties? How / Prof Inés de Castro, director of the International Deutschland e. V. is reason to hope that the human
openly can they – and how openly do Linden Museum in Stuttgart rights situation will improve in Eritrea?
they want to – write? What are their / Prof Manfred Loimeier, journalist, For 18 years, the Swedish-Eritrean
experiences? author; his book “Deutschland und EU journalist Dawit Isaak has been
Afrika – Anatomie eines komplexen imprisoned without trial in Eritrea –
/ Participants: Carlos Franz, journalist Verhältnisses” will be published by the largest prison for journalists in
and writer from Chile; most recently, Brandes & Apsel Verlag in October 4.30 – 5.30 pm, Stage sub-Saharan Africa. How is he doing?
his book “Das Quartett der Lieben- 2019 Artists, Fighters, Cosmopolites: How do things stand in Eritrea as a
den” was published as a Weltlese / Moderator: Bartholomäus Grill, Women write the 21st century country? What prospects are there
edition by Büchergilde in 2019 journalist and writer; most recently, Panel discussion (DE/EN/SP) for the future?
/ Gioconda Belli, writer, poet and “Wir Herrenmenschen. Unser ras- Jennifer Clement, Elif Shafak and
activist from Nicaragua sistisches Erbe” was published by Mercedes Rosende enjoy internatio- / Participants: Bethlehem Isaak,
/ Luiz Ruffato, writer from Brazil; most Siedler Verlag in 2019 nal success. In their novels, outsiders Dawit Isaak’s daughter
recently, his book “Das Buch der Un- / Cooperation: German Federal For- play leading roles. Are these authors / Yirgalem Fisseha Mebrahtu,
möglichkeiten. Vorläufige Hölle” was eign Office, Frankfurter Buchmesse writing against the pre-defined roles Eritrean poet, writer and journalist,
published by Assoziation A in 2019 that novels typically make available imprisoned 2009–2015, now a fellow
/ Moderator: Lutz Kliche, translator to women? A conversation about at PEN Germany in Munich
and literary agent, expert on Latin the characters in their novels and / Björn Tunbäck, Swedish radio and
America the representation of women in the television journalist, human rights
/ Cooperation: Litprom e. V. literary industry. activist
/ Wolfgang Martin Roth, representative
4.00 – 5.00 pm, Salon / Participants: Mercedes Rosende, of the Writers in Prison Network at
Criticism Not Welcome? author and lawyer from Uruguay, the Austrian PEN Club
Civil society under pressure winner of the 2019 LiBeraturpreis / Moderator: Ralf Nestmeyer,
Panel discussion (DE/EN) / Elif Shafak, author from Turkey; author and historian, vice president
Civil society isn’t just increasingly most recently, her book “Unerhörte and Writers in Prison representative
3.00 – 4.00 pm, Stage under pressure in Central and Eastern Stimmen” was published by Kein & at the PEN Centre Germany
Keep It or Give It Back? How to Europe; here in Germany the legiti- Aber in 2019 / Cooperation: Austrian PEN Club
handle collection items acquired macy and mandate of civil-society / Jennifer Clement, US-American
in colonial contexts organisations is also being criticised. Author und President of PEN interna-
Panel discussion (DE/EN) What must – and can – these organi- tional, her book „Gun Love“ was
The Savoy/Sarr report has also sations do? Who defines the scope of published by Suhrkamp in 2018
fuelled the debate about collection their power and responsibility? Can a / Moderator: Juergen Boos, director
items acquired in colonial contexts legal framework help to shore up free of Frankfurter Buchmesse 10.30 – 11.30 am, Salon
in Germany. Some cultural assets speech? / Cooperation: Frankfurter Buchmesse, Online! Between freedom,
(the Witbooi Bible to Namibia, for Litprom e. V. cyber security and censorship
example) have already been retur- Panel discussion (DE)Sunday Sonntag
The promise of online anonymity / Prof Alexander Filipović, professor 1.00 – 2.00 pm, Salon / N.N.
is obsolete. Through surveillance of media ethics, Munich School of The Soviet Past in Today’s Russia: / Moderator: Ralf Lemster, vice presi-
and censorship, non-democratic Philosophy Reckoning or resurgence? dent of the Professional Association
states are restricting movement and / Moderator: Alexander Armbruster, Panel discussion (DE) of Interpreters and Translators in
freedom of expression on the internet. Journalist, “FAZ” There is a struggle over the image Germany
Have we already moved on from the / Cooperation: Goethe-Institut of the Soviet past in Russian society / Cooperation: Professional Associa-
Anthropocene to the Technocene? Is today. What image of Stalin is there in tion of Interpreters and Translators
safe and free digital communication today’s society? Why is his popularity in Germany
still possible? And what form might growing in Russia? How is the com-
virtual open spaces for freedom of munist past being reckoned with and
expression and uncensored artistic how do Western societies see Russia?
activity take today? 12.00 – 1.00 am, Stage
30 Years Since the Fall of the Wall – / Participants: Gerd Koenen, journalist
/ Participants: Werner Bogula, coach 30 Years Since the Velvet Revolution and freelance historian 2.30 – 3.30 pm, Salon
and IT-security expert, specialist Panel discussion (DE/EN) / Gusel Jachina, writer and filmmaker What Are Humans Doing Nature
and
with the ifa “Culture and Foreign For Germany and Central and Eastern / Irina Scherbakowa, historian and to Mountain Ranges? culture
Policy” research programme Europe, 1989 marked the beginning of journalist, member of the board of Climate change and its
/ Ingrid Brodnig, book author and fundamental changes. There are few the Memorial International Society impact on the Himalayas
columnist for the news magazine examples in history in which, in such / Moderator: Jens Siegert, journalist, Podium talk (DE)
Profil, Austria’s Digital Champion in a short span of time and in so many headed the Moscow office of the Climate change is a challenge –
the EU countries, the entire state system Heinrich Böll Foundation for several including for the local populations in
/ Moderator: Dr Matthias C. Kette- transformed so fundamentally – years the Himalaya mountain range. Human
mann, Leibniz Institute for Media politically, economically and culturally. / Cooperation: Memorial International beings are interfering in environmental
Research, Hans-Bredow-Institut What happened in 1989? What less- Society systems in various ways through moun-
/ Cooperation: Institute for Foreign ons does it hold for us today? tain tourism and organic farming.
Cultural Relations What effects is this having? What is
/ Introduction: Imrich Donath, 1.30 – 2.30 pm, Stage the state of the glaciers and glacial
honorary consul of Slovakia Translators in Crisis Zones – melt water in the Himalayas? What
/ Dr Peter Lizák, ambassador of at what price, at what risk? natural processes of change are there?
Slovakia Podium talk (DE/EN)
/ Participants: Prof. Rita Süssmuth, Civilian translators and interpreters, / Participants: Judith Müller, geogra-
11.30 am – 12.30 pm, Salon president of the Bundestag 1989–1999 who provide valuable assistance in pher specialised in research on the
The Ethics of Algorithms: / František Mikloško, speaker of the crisis and war zones, risk life and limb. Himalayas and member of the Hei-
How racist can machines be? Slovak National Council 1990–1992 Around the world, they have become delberg Center for the Environment
Panel discussion (DE) / Petr Pithart, Czech prime minister the preferred target of governmental / Prof Marcus Nüsser, head of the
What biases does our society pass 1990–1992 and non-governmental actors, in whose department of geography at the
on to machines, which can always / Moderator: Daniel Kraft, head of eyes they are traitors, spies or enemies South Asia Institute, glacier resear-
only be as ethical as the developers communications and spokesperson, of the state. What is the situation cher with a focus on the Himalayas,
who program them? What do experts Federal Agency for Civic Education like for these individuals in the field? amongst other things
say about the so-called “social / Cooperation: Federal Agency for Ci- How much public awareness is there? / Dr Susanne Schmidt, senior assis-
biases” that emerge when developing vic Education; Honorary Consulate of What motivates translators and inter- tant professor in the department of
artificial intelligence? Where do things the Slovak Republic in Bad Homburg preters to go into crisis zones? geography, head of the remote sen-
stand with the question of an ethics of sing laboratory, South Asia Institute
“machine teaching”? What counter- / Video short: Interview with an Afghan / Moderator: Dr Martin Gieselmann,
movements are there? interpreter who works for the Cana- executive secretary at the South
dian ISAF troops in Afghanistan Asia Institutet
/ Participants: Prof Katharina Zweig, / Participants: Kevin Quirk, president / Cooperation: South Asia Institute
professor of social informatics, of the International Federation of
Technical University of Kaiserslautern Translators, translator of non-fiction
booksSunday Andreas Görgen Alexander Alexeyevich Drozdov Jozef Tancer
Angela Joosten Alexandra Büchler József Péter Martin
Anna Sophie Springer (TBC) Amira El Ahl Juergen Boos
Christoph Rosol Antje Damm Jürgen Resch
3.00 – 4.00 pm, Stage Cord Riechelmann Astrid Prange De Oliveira Karin Betz
Between Helplessness Nature
and
Friederike Otto Bel Olid Luiz Ruffato
and Hope: Is climate culture Harald Welzer Bernd M. Scherer Lutz Kliche
Saturday, 19 October 2019
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
change unstoppable? Irmgard Maria Fellner Bonnie Greer Majlinda Bregu
Panel discussion (DE/EN) Jean-Baptiste Del Amo Caroline Roeder Manfred Loimeier
Living conditions on our planet are Jenny Friedrich-Freksa Charlotte Ryland Mercedes Rosende
changing; the influence of humans Juergen Boos Claire Lecoeuvre Michael Roth
has never been greater. What does Lena Falkenhagen Claudia Zilla Milena Lazarević
science say about the state of the Maja Lunde Daniel Röder Oulimata Gueye
Earth and what kind of hope do new Maria Hummitzsch Dominique Reynié Pavel Polák
technologies like artificial intelligence Patricia Klobusiczky Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones Peter Torberg
hold? What visions of the future Paul de Sinety Elisabeth Edl Rebekka Habermas
Friday, 18 October 2019
does literature produce when it takes Ralf Winkler Francesco Leone Ruždija Sejdović
climate change into consideration? Robert Habeck Gabriele Haefs Srdjan Govedarica
What are the younger generations Sandra Richter Hans Maier Vladimir Balzer
accomplishing with their protests and Sigrid Lemke Heinrich Wilhelm Schäfer Veijo Baltzar
what fears are driving them? How can Tobias Asmuth Holger Fock
we achieve a transformation of soci- Yvonne Hofstetter Josef Joffe Alexander Armbruster
ety – also in economic terms – which Klaus-Dieter Lehmann Alexander Filipović
adopts climate friendly strategies? Almudena Grandes Lawrence Schimel Bethlehem Isaak
Andrea Zederbauer Llŷr Gwyn Lewis Björn Tunbäck
/ Video short: Paul J. Crutzen, mete- Andreas Nohl Lorenza Baroncelli Daniel Kraft
orologist, Nobel Prize for Chemistry Annette Prosinger Manfred Sapper František Mikloško
in 1995, former director of the Max Audun Lindholm Michael Žantovský Gerd Koenen
Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz Carlo Sgarzi Patrick McGuiness Gusel Jachina
/ Participants: Prof Uwe Schneide- Carlos Collado Seidel Philipp Khabo Koepsell Imrich Donath
wind, president of the Wuppertal Catherine Larrère Piotr Buras Ingrid Brodnig
Institute for Climate, Environment Chi Hui Sandra Kegel Irina Scherbakowa
and Energy; in 2018, his book “Die Christian Höppner Sandra Richter Jens Siegert
Große Transformation” (now in its 3rd Christiane Raabe Susanne Bader Judith Müller
Sunday, 20 October 2019
edition), was published by Fischer Claudia Schmölders Tanja Petrič Katharina Zweig
Thursday, 17 October 2019
Verlag Hans Peter Hahn Tiziano Perez Kevin Quirk
/ Luisa Neubauer, climate protection Hussain Al Mutawaa Zukiswa Wanner Luisa Neubauer
activist, co-organiser of the “Fridays Ingo Herzke Marcus Nüsser
for Future” protests Joachim Müller-Jung Annette Kopetzki Martin Gieselmann
/ Thore D. Hansen, author; in 2019, Karen Nölle Barbara Wahlster Matthias C. Kettemann
his book “Die Reinsten” was pub- Manuel Arias Maldonado Bartholomäus Grill Michael Müller
lished by Golkonda Verlag Miriam Mandelkow Beate Eder-Jordan Paul J. Crutzen
/ Michael Müller, Federal Chairman of Mithu M. Sanyal Bogna Koreng Peter Lizák
Saturday, 19 October 2019
NaturFreunde Deutschlands, former Pierre Monnet Carlos Franz Petr Pithart
Parliamentary State Secretary at Réka Kinga Papp Christian Bommarius Ralf Lemster
the Federal Ministry for the Envi- Ronald Grätz Elif Shafak Ralf Nestmeyer
ronment, Nature Conservation and Sabine Wolfram Erika Hornbogner Rita Süssmuth
Nuclear Safety Şeyda Öztürk Gioconda Belli Susanne Schmidt
Speaker Overview
/ Moderator: Ulrich Noller, journalist Song Mingwei Günther Rautz Thore D. Hansen
and author Stefan Weidner Hartmut Bäumer Ulrich Noller
/ Cooperation: Frankfurter Buchmesse Stephan Trudewind Inés de Castro Uwe Schneidewind
Susanne Fontaine Ingo Herzke Werner Bogula
Vera Tollmann Jennifer Clement Wolfgang Martin Roth
Volker Moosbrugger Johannes Ebert Yirgalem Fisseha MebrahtuSalon Stage
WEDNESDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2019 SATURDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2019 WEDNESDAY, 16 OCTOBER 2019 1.30 – 2.30 pm
British Writers and Brexit
1.00 – 2.00 pm 10.30 – 11.30 am 12.00 – 1.00 pm Panel discussion (DE/EN)
AI in the Book Industry – Diversity Under Threat in Europe? Cultural Anthropocene: On our way
reality or fiction? Spotlight on Slavic and German towards a European cultural policy? 3.00 – 4.00 pm
Panel discussion (DE) minorities Panel discussion (DE) Panel discussion (DE/EN/FR) What Would (World) Literature
Be Without Translators?
2.30 – 3.30 pm 12.00 – 2.00 pm 1.30 – 2.30 pm Panel discussion (DE/FR)
Four Seconds and It’s All Over? Translation Slam Presentation of the 2019 Übersetzer-
The Anthropocene – the age of humans Interactive presentation (DE) barke (“Translators’ Barque”) 4.30 – 5.30 pm
Panel discussion (DE) Award ceremony (DE/EN) Between Berlin and Wakanda
2.30 – 3.30 pm Panel discussion (DE/EN)
Populism Versus Democracy: 2.00 – 4.00 pm
THURSDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2019 What is happening in Latin America? Sick Attitude: The humananimal
Podium talk (DE/SP) relationship in industrial livestock
10.30 – 12.30 pm
Transparent Translator production Podium talk (DE/EN/FR) SATURDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2019
4.00 – 5.00 pm
Interactive presentations (DE) Criticism Not Welcome? 4.30 –5.30 pm 10.30 – 11.30 am
Civil society under pressure Opening of the Weltempfang:
1.00 – 2.00 pm Sinti and Roma Literature –
Panel discussion (DE/EN) The Anthropocene: Does culture
Sound Diplomacy: Music opens worlds in Germany and the world
Panel discussion (DE) trump nature? Panel discussion (DE/EN)
Panel discussion (DE/EN)
2.30 – 3.30 pm
SUNDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2019 12.00 – 1.00 pm
Between Nature and Technology: Marriage of Convenience or True Love?
10.30 – 11.30 am
Visions of the future from China The EU and Western Balkan candidates
Online! Between freedom, cyber THURSDAY, 17 OCTOBER 2019
Talk (DE/CH)) for EU membership
security and censorship
Panel discussion (DE/ALB/SR)
Panel discussion (DE) 10.30 – 11.30 am
4.00 – 5.00 pm
Human-Thing-World: A long road to Facing the Anthropocene Together: 1.30 – 2.30 pm
11.30 am – 12.30 pm European perspectives The Power of Utopia
the Anthropocene
The Ethics of Algorithms: Panel discussion (DE/EN/FR) Panel discussion (DE/EN/FR)
Panel discussion (DE)
How racist can machines be?
Panel discussion (DE)
FRIDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2019 12.00 – 1.00 pm 3.00 – 4.00 pm
1.00 – 2.00 pm N-word and Gender Gap: How Keep It or Give It Back? How to handle
10.30 – 11.30 am The Soviet Past in Today’s Russia: politically correct are translations? collection items acquired in colonial
What Is Religion Doing in Foreign Reckoning or resurgence? Panel discussion (DE/EN) contexts Panel discussion (DE/EN)
Policy? Panel discussion (DE) Panel discussion (DE)
1.30 – 2.30 pm 4.30 – 5.30 pm
11.30 am – 12.30 pm 2.30 – 3.30 pm Is Freedom of Speech Under Threat Artists, Fighters, Cosmopolites:
Fridays for Future: Picture books for What Are Humans Doing to Mountain in Spain? Panel discussion (DE/EN/SP) Women write the 21st century
the next generation Ranges? Climate change and its Panel discussion (DE/EN/SP)
Talk (DE/FR) impact on the Himalayas 3.00 – 4.00 pm
Podium talk (DE) Breaking the Bad News
1.00 – 2.00 pm Panel discussion (DE/EN) SUNDAY, 20 OCTOBER 2019
Literary Translation: Profession,
art, labour of love? 4.30 – 5.30 pm 10.30 – 11.30 am
Panel discussion (EN) Trends in Children’s Literature: Looking for Hope? On the human
Arabic and German voices rights situation in Eritrea
2.30 – 3.30 pm Panel discussion (DE/EN/AR) Panel discussion (DE/EN)
European Street Parliaments: The
12.00 – 1.00 pm
political power of street protests
30 Years Since the Fall of the Wall –
Panel discussion (DE/FR) FRIDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2019 30 Years Since the Velvet Revolution
Panel discussion (DE/EN)
4.00 – 5.00 pm 10.30 – 11.30 am
Should we still speak about Broken Nature: Human beings’ 1.30 – 2.30 pm
“small“ language literatures? relationship with nature Translators in Crisis Zones – at what price,
Panel discussion (EN) Panel discussion (DE/EN) at what risk? Podium talk (DE/EN)
All events
12.00 – 1.00 pm 3.00 – 4.00 pm
at a glance More Than Words: Václav Havel – Between Helplessness and Hope:
winner of the 1989 Peace Prize Is climate change unstoppable?
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