FESTIVAL (29.8.-02.09.2018)
29.08.2018 (Mittwoch)
| Welcome- & Good Vibes-Plenum 10 am – 1 pm |
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| Guest: all authors open for everyone |
We welcome all our festival guest. At the first gathering, we will introduce the festival program and give a prospect over what will happen in the next days. The first event is for the audience to get to know the festival authors who will introduce each other. |
| Writers Grill 13 pm – 2:30 pm |
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| Guest: all authors open for everybody |
Here we will have a get-together in the form of a barbecue and Bratwurst-session. You will have the chance to get to know the rest of the group in a relaxed atmosphere. Now is the time for exchanges, questions about writing and personal things, about anything and everything. |
| Doing Literature (a praxis workshop part 1) 3.30 pm – 6 pm |
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| Guest: all authors Moderation: Christophe Knoch Not open |
The topic of the workshop is dialogical self reflection and self questioning about the character of our writing practice. Writing as a way of living and as our purpose in life. Why do we write, anyway? What are we writing on? What is it that we have to say? How do we experience our own writing? And how does the public see or experience our writing? What is success? How do I survive as a writer? How can we build an international network? And how can we include that into our writing? |
| Writing and Living in metropolis (Opening Ceremony) Discussion forum und movie screening 8 pm – 10 pm |
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| Gäste: Sabine Carbon, Paula Fürstenberg, Hendrik Jackson, Eka Kevanichvili, Tamta Melashvili, Felix Oehler, Zviad Ratiani, David Wagner Moderation: Tom Bresemann open for everybody entrence free |
Before the festival, three Berlin authors, Paula Fürstenberg, David Wagner and Hendrik Jackson, visited the Georgian capital Tbilisi. They were accompanied by their Georgian hosts, Eka Kevanishivili, Tamta Melavishvili, and Zviad Ratiani. Together they had seven days filled with exciting conversation, exploring the city, the landscape, and culinary delights. Their journey was documented by our great film team (Sabine Carbon and Felix Oehler): They produced three short films about the team of writers. This evening, the authors and the film team will recall their impressions and will provide an insight into the different working and living situations as an author in Berlin and Tbilisi. |
30.08.2018 (Donnerstag)
| Come together (right now) 11 am – 12 am |
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| Kiez-Walkietalkies 12 am – 4 pm |
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| open for everybody | Get to know the „Kiez“ of Berlin, through the writers’ eyes. The Berlin based authors will show the authors from Tbilisi their Berlin: favorite spots, places for writing, places to calm down from the frantic city, places that can change your mood. |
| Creating the Carte Blanche Session and Impro 5 pm – 20 pm |
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| open for everybody | First and last chance to combine continuity and discontinuity, to be prepared when it is time to play the Carte Blanche. All participating authors mingle in the game. Everybody can mingle. The boundaries between audience and performers are removed. We trust in improvisation and chaos. Thats how we float like a boat and see what happens. |
31.08.2018 (Freitag)
| Come together (right now) 11 am – 12 am |
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| Good morning, Berlin Shut up and write-Session 12 am – 13 am |
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| open for everybody | Everybody is invited to keep quiet/stop talking for an hour, together with the festival authors. Instead of talking, use the time to tickle the ivories, and splash some ink. We will provide blogs, open-google-docs, wallpapers or, if you want to return to analog, use the typewriter. Write in a collective collaboration, write alone or just watch other people writing and get inspired. |
| Writers Junkfood 1 pm |
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| open for everybody | Junkfood stands here as a symptom. From burger to coffee-to-go, from cookie over candy to any possible chips flavour, from half-ready to ready. |
| Doing Literature (a praxis workshop. part 2) 3.30 pm – 6 pm |
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| Guest: all authors Moderation: Christophe Knoch not open |
The topic of the workshop is dialogical self reflection and self questioning about the character of our writing practice. Writing as a way of living and as our purpose in life. Why do we write, anyway? What are we writing on? What is it that we have to say? How do we experience our own writing? And how does the public see or experience our writing? What is success? How do I survive as a writer? How can we build an international network? And how can we include that into our writing? |
| German – Georgian Friendship (a Carte Blanche) Reading and Clubbing
8 pm – 12 pm |
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| Entrance free | We have a passion for improvisation, so we’re eager to see what happens when 16 authors spontaneously put together an evening of reading. They will create the program and take over the direction of the night, they will construct and deconstruct. This evening, the Lettretage will be under the hand of the 16 festival-authors. Everything is possible. Transitory/Hybrid. Ordinary and ecstatic, reaching/touching the edge of everything possible. Work them! |
01.09.2018 (Samstag)
| Hangover, Berlin Shut up and write-Session 4 pm – 5 pm |
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| Everybody is invited to shut up for an hour, together with the festival authors. Instead of talking, use the time to tickle the ivories, splashing inks. We will provide blogs, open-google-docs, wallpapers or back to analog use the typewriter. Write in a collective collaboration, write alone or just watch when other people are writing and get inspired. | |
| Berlinis – a long German-Georgian Saturday night including Georgian food
6 pm – 12 pm |
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| Entrance free | Now you will need a rather long wind. We put everything into a big pot: 8 German and 8 Georgian authors will present themselves and their newest stuff. Chinkali and Chatschapuri. The taste of Georgian culinary art will frame the night. |
02.09.2018 (Sonntag)
| Come together (right now) Brunch. 12 am – 1 pm |
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| Picknick-Reading at the Victoria Park Performing & Chilling 2 pm – 5 pm |
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| open for everybody | Park, Waterfall, Memorial. We will turn Victoria Park in Berlin-Kreuzberg into a playground, using the right mixture of humor, experiment and a sense of occasion, as well as the beauty of the world. Follow your instinct and perform poetry, prose or prophetic sounds, spout out never ending welcome or goodbye speeches, proclaim a manifest of peace or just do a commune of endless/ never ending possibilities. |
| The last words Finnissage with music (Nestan Bagration-Davitachvili) Moderation: Tom Bresemann 7 pm – 21 pm |
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| We will shoot our last powder, our last verse, grooves, plots and statements. Listen to authors talking about storys, impressions, anecdotes from the festival. Anything that still urges to get out of them will find room at the last event of the festival. Briefly, the big résumé. What was working fantastic, what did we messed up with panache? What concerned us? Will there be a future work? |