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Textland 2024: Humor als Widerstand

Day ticket for Saturday, December 7: €12, reduced €8

Friday, December 6, 2024, 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Saturday, December 7, 2024, 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Literaturhaus Frankfurt, Schöne Aussicht 2, 60311 Frankfurt am Main

Textland engages with the dynamic development of literature in our pluralistic living environments. In a time of escalating polarization of social and political factions, this year's literature festival follows the motto "Humor as Resistance". Authors from different genres demonstrate over two days how the use of humor in prose, poetry, and performance art can foster positive dynamics in conversation.

SATURDAY, December 7, 2024
5:00 PM (Doors open at 4:30 PM)
Jovana Reisinger: "Pleasure"
Moderation: Miryam Schellbach
In her latest work "Pleasure", Jovana Reisinger undertakes a breathtaking tour de force through the luxury triad. It’s about kitsch, glamour, and trash, about bodies and identities, about rhinestones, class, and artificial nails. As author and filmmaker Katja Eichinger attests, Jovana Reisinger "describes in a highly amusing and intelligent way the feminist feeling of a new generation that reserves the right to contradictions".

6:00 PM
Spoken word performances: Paul Bokowski | Fatima Moumouni | Aileen Schneider
Moderation: Aileen Schneider
Author and reader Paul Bokowski has been at the forefront of the German reading scene for many years. Columnist and moderator Fatima Moumouni is present with shows on various stages and moderates discussion series on racism, Islamophobia, and outdated colonial narratives of "old white" men. Opera director Aileen Schneider has created superheroine characters that explore interpersonal processes and emotions with a wink of social criticism.

7:30 PM
Tijan Sila: "Radio Sarajevo"
Moderation: Maryam Aras
This year's Bachmann Prize winner Tijan Sila revisits his childhood in "Radio Sarajevo". As Sarajevo is ablaze, a boy becomes a young man learning to survive. The autobiographical novel tells of how poets become murderers and murderers become heroes and tells of people who have had all humanity stripped away from them. "This book possesses a quality that is rare in German-language literature: the tragicomic," emphasized Philipp Tingler in the Literary Quartet.

8:10 PM
Barbi Markovic: "Minihorror"
Moderation: Maryam Aras
In "Minihorror", Barbi Markovic takes us through the adventures of Mini and Miki in everyday life in Vienna. As outsiders, they strive to belong and do everything right, yet are pursued by monsters, catastrophes, and difficulties. This year's recipient of the Leipzig Book Fair Prize illuminates in "Minihorror" the big and small nightmares of the middle class, the abysses that open up in everyday life and refuse to close. "An innovative, cynical, and highly amusing book," finds reviewer Jolinde Hüchtker.

9:00 PM
Spoken word concert: Arno Camenisch reads
At the piano: Tsovinar Suflyan
"His readings are cult." Hessian Broadcast
The Grisons author and performer Arno Camenisch plays an exclusive performance with spoken word texts – fresh, funny, and profound stories drawn directly from life that touch the heart, and when he reads, he does so in his very own style, in his incomparable, humorous "Camenisch sound". On stage, Camenisch is accompanied by pianist Tsovinar Suflyan, and through the music, Camenisch's texts become songs and the performance a concert – an unforgettable experience!

Textland 2024 is supported by the City of Frankfurt and the Cultural Fund Frankfurt RheinMain, the Crespo Foundation, and the Hesse Ministry of Science and Art.

http://www.textland-online.de

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