Welcome!
Dear lovers of literature, this year, we are once again pleased to bring you this autumn’s literary highlights at lit.COLOGNE spezial – and help shorten the wait until the big lit.COLOGNE festival in spring. lit.COLOGNE spezial has been around since 2011 and this year we have 26 events, the largest and most diverse program ever! We are looking forward to outstanding authors and artists, great literature from Germany and abroad, important debates, fascinating biographies and excellent reading voices.
We would like to express our deep gratitude to our partners, sponsors and our media partner WDR5, who plays host to many of the events.
We look forward to seeing you at our events!
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lit.kid.COLOGNE celebrates reading!
For and with children and young people, in the mornings for school classes and at weekends in the family program and at lit.ComingOfAge.
lit.kid.COLOGNE encourages people to read, think and talk. Authors and other interesting and interested personalities read, talk and discuss with children and young people at eye level, taking them with them to cross familiar horizons and discover new worlds of reading.
The lit.COLOGNE strives to be as inclusive as possible.
For years now, the lit.COLOGNE has been actively working to enable persons with disabilities to participate. There is a wide range of barriers that prevent people with disabilities from participating normally in cultural events. In its efforts to change this, the phil.cologne offers multiple fully-accessible and improved-access events every year.
Upcoming dates
The next lit.COLOGNE is scheduled to take place from March 6 to 22, 2026, and in 2027 from February 26 to March 14.
