Dorothea Zwirner

Thea Sternheim – Chronicler of Modernity

Damon Galgut

The Promise

Khaled Khalifa

No One Prayed Over Their Graves

Theaterplatz Festival

Katja Petrowskaja

The Photo Looked at Me

Alain Claude Sulzer

Double Life (Doppelleben)

Long Night of Austrian Literature

CANCELED: Katerina Poladjan

Future Music (Zukunftsmusik)

Usama Al Shahmani

The Bird Doesn’t Doubt Where it is Flying To (Der Vogel zweifelt nicht am Ort, zu dem er fliegt)

Arno Camenisch

The World

Feminism und Illustration:

Three Artists – Three Perspectives

Leïla Slimani

Watch Us Dance

Sunday Afternoon Stories

Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui: I know a story!

Life Stories – retold from a feminist perspective

Spain – Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Book Fair: With Elena Medel and María Castrejón

GUEST APPEARANCE BY THE WORTSTELLWERK

First Shoots

MICHAL STEINEMANN & ARIANE VON GRAFFENRIED

Rockhall-Lectures

CAROLIN AMLINGER & OLIVER NACHTWEY

Freedom in Chains. Aspects of Libertarian Authoritarianism

URSULA FRICKER & EDITH GARTMANN

Family Tales

M’ILLUMINO D’IMMENSO

Poetry Translation Prize for Ruth Gantert

Guest Appearance of Zytglogge and NZZ Libro at the Literaturhaus

Switzerland and Europe – What Next? With Steffen Klatt, Martin Gollmer and Elia Heer

100th BIRTHDAY OF KUNO RAEBER

ASLI ERDOĞAN

Requiem for a Lost City

INGEBORG BACHMANN & MAX FRISCH

“We Didn’t Do Well.” The Correspondence («Wir haben es nicht gut gemacht.» Der Briefwechsel)

SUNDAY MORNING STORIES

Tomte Tummetott and Other Important Beings

CHRISTOPH GEISER & JULIA RÜEGGER

Intergenerational Dialogue

SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES

Sleeping and Dreaming

WORKSHOP DISCUSSION WITH AMANDA MICHALOPOULOU

Why I Killed my Best Friend

MOVEMENTS & MOMENTS

Indigenous Feminisms

BEHZAD KARIM KHANI & HUSSEIN MOHAMMADI

Remarkable Debuts

PETER STAMM

In a Dark-Blue Hour

DŽEVAD KARAHASAN

The Practice of Floating

DANIELA DRÖSCHER

Lies About my Mother

SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES

Happiness

MICHAL GOVRIN

Love on the Shore

NATALKA SNIADANKO

The Neat Orders of Archduke Wilhelm

FINAL OF THE BASLER U20-POETRY-SLAM-CHAMPIONSHIP 2023

RALPH THARAYIL

Take the Alps Away

CRISTINA MORALES

Easy Reading

LIFE AND WRITING I

Arno Geiger: The Happy Secret

LIFE AND WRITING II

Judith Hermann: We Could Have Said it All

SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES

Anger

PRIX AHMADOU KOUROUMA

Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

KATERYNA MISHCHENKO & KATHARINA RAABE

Out of the Fog of War

AN EVENING FOR MONIKA NEUN

And then disappear

EMILIA ROIG

The End of Marriage

ZÜLFÜ LIVANELI

The Fisherman and his Son

SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES

DogsandCats

Book launch: Adam Schwarz

Glitch (Glitsch)

SASHA FILIPENKO

Cremulator

Poetry Festival

Voices of war: Reading and discussion with Marianna Kiyanovska

Poetry Festival

Podium: War against women. With Sultan Yaray and Meral Şimşek

LEILA ABOULELA

Elsewhere, Home

YADE YASEMIN ÖNDER

We know, we could, and we fall in sync

MICHAIL SCHISCHKIN & ARTEM TROITSKY

Talking about Russia

FRANZ HOHLER

The year that keeps on going

BOOK LAUNCH: FELIX UHLMANN

The Latest State of Error (Der letzte Stand des Irrtums)

CHARLES FERDINAND RAMUZ

THE PRESENCE OF DEATH (STURZ IN DIE SONNE)

HENRI-MICHEL YÉRÉ

POLO KOUMAN/ POLO PARLE

INTER-GENERATIONAL DIALOGUES: WITH VERENA STÖSSINGER & JULIA WEBER

MOTHERHOOD

FESTIVAL of YOUTH CULTURE

Poetry Slam, Workshop, Open Stage Readings

FESTIVAL OF YOUTH CULTURE

Poetry Slam, Workshop, Open Stage Readings

SEASON OPENING

with Mina Hava, Klaus Merz and Laura Wohnlich

WRITING AS RESISTANCE

Wagdy El Komy, Jafar Sael, Joël László and Jurczok 1001

SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES

Questions About Questions

CLEMENS J. SETZ

Moons before the Landing (Monde vor der Landung)

TIJAN SILA

Radio Sarajevo (Ratueso Sarajevo)

ANNA ROSENWASSER

The Pink Book (Rosa Buch)

GIANNA MOLINARI

Behind the Hedge the World (Hinter der Hecke die Welt)

ILIJA TROJANOW

A thousand and one Mornings

A. L. KENNEDY

Alive in a merciful Country

JUDITH SCHALANSKY

10 Years of the Natural History Imprint (Naturkunden)

SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES

WHAT´S COOKING IN THAT POT OVER THERE?

Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry

Il n’y a pas d’arc-en-ciel au paradis

GUEST APPEARANCE OF THE WORTSTELLWERK

100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TURKISH REPUBLIC

ÇIĞDEM AKYOL: THE DIVIDED REPUBLIC. TURKEY FROM ATATURK TO ERDOGAN

Talking about New Books I

Lukas Gloor, Timbuktu & Judith Keller, Wild Manoeuvres

DIATY DIALLO

Two seconds of burning air

CHRISTOPH KELLER

Flooding Africa

TOM SEGEV

Jerusalem in a corner of Berlin: Autobiography

CORNELIA KAZIS & BETTINA UGOLINI

The old gang

Talking about New Books II

Gianna Olinda Cadonau: Fire Lily

SYLVIE SCHENK

Maman

MATTO KÄMPF

Soup, Soap, Salvation

SUNDAY MORNING STORIES:

THE SHORTEST DAY

INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE

Theres Roth-Hunkeler & Laura Vogt

ZOLTÁN DANYI

Rose novel

SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES

In winter, when darkness falls

ALBERT DEBRUNNER (HRSG.)

Wladimir Sagal: "Above all heads, jewish heads"

TERÉZIA MORA

Muna or the half of life

SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES

When visitors arrive…

FINAL BASLER U20-POETRY-SLAM-CHAMPIONSHIP 2024

NECATI ÖZIRI

Vatermal

KYIV – (KEEP-) WRITING

With Tanja Maljartschuk

SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES

Can we kiss frogs?

THOMAS SPARR

“I Want to Go on Living, even after my Death”. The Biography of Anne Frank´s Diary

CHRISTINA CLEMM

Opposing Misogyny

DANIEL SCHREIBER

Times of Loss

BEING HUMAN

Authors against Hate

RUDOLF BUSSMAN

Promised Land

THOMAS SARBACHER READS JON FOSSE

Prose and poetry

BOOK LAUNCH: UELI MÄDER

My brother Marco

CAROLIN EMCKE

What is true. About violence and climate

BOOK LAUNCH: LUKAS HOLLIGER

1983. Cursed heat

SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES

The garden of Abdul Gasazi

EVAN TEPEST

Write the name of your mother

NICOLE SEIFERT

“A few gentlemen mentioned something about it”. Female authors of the group 47

RONYA OTHMANN

Seventy-Four

GAEA SCHOETERS

Trophäe

ULRICH STADLER

The Eternal Enigma. A Cultural History of the Flea.

WALTER MORGENTHALER

The Village – a Report

ISLAM ALIJAJ

We Need to Talk. A Biographical Manifesto

FI&L

Feminism, Intersections & Literature

ANGELIKA OVERATH

Women of Engadin

FROM THE LOGBOOK OF "WEICHENWÄRTER:INNEN"

Guest Appearance by the Wortstellwerk at the Literaturhaus

SEASON OPENING WITH SAŠA STANIŠIĆ

If the widow wishes to be addressed, she places the watering can on the grave with the spout facing forwards

SUNDAY MORNING STORIES

Breakfast with Pettersson

BOOK LAUNCH: MARIANN BÜHLER

Shift in the rock

ANDISHEH KARAMI

Writer in residence – A workshop discussion

ERASMUS CALLS!

“Theory of peace”

MICHELLE STEINBECK

Favorita

ALAIN CLAUDE SULZER

Just like a brother

RENÉ AGUIGAH

James Baldwin. The witness. A portrait

FRANZ HOHLER

Franz Hohler & friends

IGIABA SCEGO

Cassandra in Mogadishu

DO WE WRITE TO REMEMBER – OR NOT TO FORGET?

The Wortstellwerk at the Literaturhaus

SECOND THOUGHTS – THE NEW LATE NIGHT FORMAT

The world can't stay the same.

QUARTIER-TALKS

Can Culture open the Way to Utopia?

OLGA GRJASNOWA

July, August, September

GESCHICHTEN AM SONNTAGVORMITTAG

A Musical Journey: Gulliver's Travels for Children

PAULA FÜRSTENBERG

Everyday Global Life