Pure literature: The 4th Festival in Kaiserslautern invites you to read!
Pure literature: The 4th Festival in Kaiserslautern invites you to read!
On February 15, 2025, the fourth literary festival begins in Kaiserslautern, an event that takes place every two years and alternates with the “Lautern reads” festival. The festival was launched in 2019 to commemorate the 180th anniversary of the oldest German, publicly funded city library. kaiserslautern.de explains that the goal of this event is to promote reading, writing and reading.
The opening of the festival takes place in the SWR Studio Kaiserslautern. The guests include the authors Carolin Callies and Judith Hoffmann, who take part in the reading arathon. Carolin Callies, born in Mannheim in 1980, has already been awarded several prizes, including the Thaddäus Troll Prize 2015 and the Gerlinger Lyric Prize 2020. Judith Hoffmann, who lives in Heidelberg, brings her experience as a cultural scientist, theater teacher and musician and took part in Poetry Slam.
festival program and Highlights
The literary festival includes a variety of program items that range from readings to musical performances. A total of 15 program items are planned, including an "overture" in the café "9 to 5", in which Tijan Sila will read from his novel "Radio Sarajevo". Devid Striesow and Stefan Weinzierl will also interpret the "tin drum".
The festival will open on Monday, February 17, 2025, at 7:30 p.m., admission is already from 6:30 p.m. Kerstin Bachtler will lead through the event. The festival is officially opened by Mayor and Cultural Director Manfred Schulz, who will welcome the participants in the SWR studio.
collaborations and regional partners
Numerous local partners work together for the implementation of the festival. These include the RPTU with a campus culture book club and central library, the bookstores "Blue Blume" and "Thalia", the SWR, the Atlantic Academy, the Palatinate Theater, the Palatinate Library and the Culture presentation. swr.de emphasizes that the organizers will present a wide range of authors, including prominent names such as Thomas Mann, Günther Grass and Elke Heidenreich, as well as young authors such as Elisabeth Plociennik and Lynn Krieger.
The event not only offers the opportunity to meet the authors, but also an invitation to read aloud and browse in the city library, both analogously and digitally. Further information on the festival is on DetailsQuellen