Tag: Leipzig Book Fair
There is no life without fear, says Barbi Marković: A meeting. – Culture
If you watch people in the café after reading “Minihorror” with author Barbi Marković, you start to see mini-horror everywhere. Little dramas with sometimes fatal endings, like those that happen…
Leipzig Book Fair: Freedom under the skin
That was the Leipzig Book Fair 2024: About wars, kitsch and the cleverness of costumed young people. source site
Leipzig Book Fair: Young people still read books
As of: March 24, 2024 4:42 p.m “Who’s still reading?” was the motto of this year’s Leipzig Book Fair. Anyone who looked around the full exhibition halls could see that…
Ukrainians at the Leipzig Book Fair: Books about the resistance
As of: March 23, 2024 3:45 p.m Culture is important even in times of war, say Ukrainian cultural workers at the Leipzig Book Fair. There is a wide selection of…
Leipzig Book Fair: Stay curious
The Federal President’s Leipzig speech is also disrupted by pro-Palestinian activists. But in the end they benefit Steinmeier’s concerns – because he deals with them cleverly. source site
Fiction Prize from the Leipzig Book Fair for Barbi Markovic
As of: March 21, 2024 5:40 p.m The author Barbi Markovic has won this year’s fiction prize at the Leipzig Book Fair. In her book “Minihorror” she tells about everyday…
Security concept of the Leipzig Book Fair – Culture
There will be no entry controls again. Bags will not be searched, and there are also no metal detectors at the Leipzig Book Fair. The fact that local transport is…
Leipzig Book Fair: Prize for “ca. 1972 · Violence · Environment · Identity · Method” – Culture
No one was really happy with the decision at the Book Fair publishing receptions on Thursday evening in Leipzig. Worded carefully. As a rule, discomfort on these occasions is politely…
Steinmeier interrupted several times in his speech
As of: March 21, 2024 9:15 p.m After Chancellor Scholz, now Steinmeier: Pro-Palestinian demonstrators interrupted the Federal President’s speech at the Leipzig Book Fair several times. Steinmeier made an appeal…
Leipzig Book Fair: Stay curious
The Federal President’s Leipzig speech is also disrupted by pro-Palestinian activists. But in the end they benefit Steinmeier’s concerns – because he deals with them cleverly. source site