Literature Festival Kaiserslautern: Extra class reading festival!

Literature Festival Kaiserslautern: Extra class reading festival!

From February 15th to 23rd, 2025, the literary festival takes place in Kaiserslautern, which is planned as a significant event to promote literature and reading culture. The festival was originally launched in 2019 to celebrate the 180th anniversary of the city library, the oldest German library with public funding. The city library plays a central role in the cultural life of Kaiserslautern and offers the stage for a variety of literary works and readings.

The literary festival changes every two years with the established “Lautern reads” campaign, which has existed for 20 years. As Meeting point Palatinate , the goal of the festival is to promote reading, writing and reading in the region. It is a strong cooperation with local partners such as RPTU, Campuskultur-Buchclub, the central library and various bookstores as well as cultural institutions.

diverse program

The program includes an impressive list of literary sizes, including Thomas Mann, Günther Grass and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Works by current authors such as Tijan Sila and Monika Zeiner are also presented. A total of 15 events are on the program, including readings, interpretations and discussions that appreciate the literary heritage of Germany.

The official opening of the festival takes place on February 17th at 7:30 p.m. in the SWR Studio, led by Mayor Manfred Schulz. One of the highlights is the previous event on February 15 in the café "9 To 5", in which Tijan Sila will read from his novel "Radio Sarajevo". Special performances are also planned, such as the interpretation of the "sheet metal drum" by Devid Striesow and drummer Stefan Weinzierl on February 20 in the fruit hall, as well as another event on the subject of "Orpheus" with Elke Heidenreich and pianist Marc-Aurel Floros on February 22nd.

cultural relevance and access

Mayor Schulz emphasizes the importance of promotion of reading and emphasizes that the festival makes a valuable contribution to cultural education in the region. The entire program can be accessed at public job stops and online in order to give as many people as possible access to these literary highlights. The initiative is also supported by the West Palatinate Future region, which underlines the importance of the festival.

The program design should not only appeal to existing literary fans, but also win new readers and arouse the curiosity about the works of the many presented authors. The integrative events are a welcome invitation to browse and read aloud in the city library, both analogously and via digital offers.

as well as kaiserslautern.de , the diversity of the authors occurring and the variety of events creates a broad access to literature that creates the cultural multiple of the region reflected.