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- BALLONI-Hallen
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- DEG - Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft
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Angela Merkel served as Chancellor of Germany for 16 years, guiding the country through numerous crises and shaping German and international politics with her positioning and actions. In her memoirs,… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Mon. 16 December 2024
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Flora Köln
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Colum McCann is a remarkable storyteller who has won numerous awards for his books (“Let the Great World Spin”, “Apeirogon”). With his latest novel, Twist, the Irish author is in top form: He masterf… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Twist – Colum McCann and a story of escalation on the high seas
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- Date: Thu. 13 March 2025
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Kulturkirche Köln
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- English
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Den TIMETABLE findest du hier.
Kultur verbindet Fiktion und Realität, gibt Ideen und Anstoß, hinterfragt, macht sichtbar und lässt fühlen. Die 3. Ausgabe der lit.COLOGNE POP präsentiert Literatur, Diskurs, Theater, Musik & anal… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 15 March 2025
- Time: 16:30
- Location: Stadtgarten
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Den TIMETABLE findest du hier.
Kultur verbindet Fiktion und Realität, gibt Ideen und Anstoß, hinterfragt, macht sichtbar und lässt fühlen. Die 3. Ausgabe der lit.COLOGNE POP präsentiert Literatur, Diskurs, Theater, Musik & anal… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 16 March 2025
- Time: 16:00
- Location: Stadtgarten
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For his 2006 international bestselling book “Gomorrah”, Roberto Saviano spent years undercover investigating the structures and machinations of the Camorra crime clan. The publication of the book bro… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Mon. 17 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Flora Köln
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- Italian
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On November 2, 2020, Caroline Darian, daughter of Gisèle and Dominique Pelicot, received a phone call from the police: Her father had been arrested. Since 2013, Pelicot had been secretly drugging his … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Mon. 17 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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In englischer Sprache
In 1992, a largely unknown young writer called Nick Hornby published his debut work in England, launching his career as an international bestselling author. In Fever Pitch, he described not only his… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Mon. 17 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Flora Köln
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London in the early days of the Second World War: Simon Batley wants nothing more to do with the British Secret Service. He worked for them years ago, naïve and undercover, while studying physics in … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Tue. 18 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz
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As the last witnesses and survivors reach the ends of their lives, we stand at a turning point in our memory of the Holocaust. It is therefore all the more important that voices such as József … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Tue. 18 March 2025
- Time: 17:30
- Location: Kulturkirche Köln
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Not only was Christian Streich a successful coach for the soccer club SC Freiburg for more than 20 years, he also became a moral institution. He repeatedly spoke out against racism and… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Christian Streich on the books of his life
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- Date: Tue. 18 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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Good female friendships are something to be envied, as German songwriter Funny van Dannen sings in “Freundinnen müsste man sein!” Literature is also full of great female friendships – wild, intell… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Tue. 18 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Theater am Tanzbrunnen
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – international bestselling author, literary superstar and feminist icon – presents her long-awaited new novel Dream Count. With keen understanding, she vividly and cleverly wea… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Dream Count
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- Date: Tue. 18 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Stadthalle Köln
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- Deutsch
- Englisch
Live radio show broadcast from WDR Funkhaus, can be heard here: WDR 5, Deutschlandradio, BR 2, HR 2 Kultur, MDR Kultur, SR Kultur, SWR Kultur.
Audiobooks are cinema for the ears. They can enchant us or carry us away – with stories, sound and strong voices. At lit.COLOGNE, we will once again honor the best German productions that have been c… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event The German Audiobook Prize 2025
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- Date: Tue. 18 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
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Vienna, 2095. For Commissioner Landauer, there’s nothing unusual about a body in the Danube. But this time there are two of them, and what’s worse is that the women are identical down to the last hai… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Tue. 18 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz
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Julia Schoch is considered to be a “virtuoso of memory storytelling” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). After her bestselling novel “The Couple of the Century”, comes the triumphant final act of her captiva… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Tue. 18 March 2025
- Time: 20:30
- Location: Kulturkirche Köln
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Good female friendships are something to be envied, as German songwriter Funny van Dannen sings in “Freundinnen müsste man sein!” Literature is also full of great female friendships – wild, intell… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Tue. 18 March 2025
- Time: 20:30
- Location: Theater am Tanzbrunnen
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Values can be quite arbitrary. Our understanding of fairness and justice is influenced by whether we prioritize societal cohesion or the freedom of the individual. Whether we put a price on added… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Values in transition – a compass for the future with Maja Göpel
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- Date: Tue. 18 March 2025
- Time: 21:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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Everyone talks about becoming an adult or nearing the end of your life. But what happens in between? When lots of things, such as whom we love, where we work and how we live, have already been… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 19 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Roter Saal
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Diese Lesung findet ohne Moderation statt.
He has achieved what most can only dream of: Joachim Meyerhoff is not only an actor who performs on the most renowned stages of German-language theater, he is also a bestselling author. After his… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Joachim Meyerhoff – You Can Also Fall Upwards
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- Date: Wed. 19 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Theater am Tanzbrunnen
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The Ruhr coal mining region was the source of Germany’s wealth after World War II. A place where people worked hard and suffered their fates. An environment that spawned a special type of person. It i… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 19 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Stadthalle Köln
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Édouard Louis became a literary sensation in France with his autobiographical novels and essays (“The End of Eddy”, “Who Killed My Father”). He is especially celebrated for his unsparing self-des… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 19 March 2025
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Schauspiel Köln im DEPOT 1
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Leider ist Samar Yazbek erkrankt. Glücklicherweise hat sich spontan Dima Wannous bereit erklärt, nach Köln zu kommen, damit auf der lit.Cologne das wichtige Thema Syrien nicht entfällt. Wannous, 1982 geboren in Damaskus, ist eine der prominentesten Schriftstellerinnen und politischen Aktivistinnen Syriens. Sie lebt heute in London. Ihre jüngsten Essays über den Sturz des Assad-Regimes und der Bericht über ihre Rückkehr nach Damaskus, die in mehreren Sprachen erschienen (auf deutsch in der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung), gehören zu den eindrücklichsten und literarisch bestechendsten Texten über die syrische Revolution. International bekannt geworden ist Wannous 2007 mit der Kurzgeschichtensammlung »Tafâsîl« (dt. »Dunkle Wolken über Damaskus«), die ein Alltagspanoptikum im Vorfeld der 2011 beginnenden syrischen Revolution bildet. 2017 veröffentlichte sie den Roman „Die Verängstigten«, der ebenfalls in deutscher Übersetzung erschien: Darin erhält die Erzählerin Suleima ein Manuskript ihres früheren Geliebten Nassim, der nach Ausbruch der Kriegs nach Deutschland geflohen ist. Der Roman stand 2018 auf der Shortlist des Internationalen Preises für arabische Literatur.
The surprising downfall of dictator Bashar al-Assad has fundamentally changed the situation in Syria and the Middle East. Author and journalist Samar Yazbek is one of the best-known protagonists of… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 19 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Stadtgarten
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- Arabisch
- Deutsch
A family from Kyiv sells Russian specialties in Leipzig: vodka, dumplings, SIM cards, nautical shirts – and a vague feeling of Eastern European solidarity. The latter, though, is no longer available f… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 19 March 2025
- Time: 21:00
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Roter Saal
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Live-Podcast
Buffon’s nightmare meets Söder’s torment. Jonas Hector and Fabian Köster both live in Cologne. In their podcast, Schlag und fertig, they look for other things they have in common. Each week, Hector, the f… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 19 March 2025
- Time: 21:00
- Location: Theater am Tanzbrunnen
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In Brooklyn Crime Novel, the incredible storyteller Jonathan Lethem (“Motherless Brooklyn”, “The Fortress of Solitude”) has penned a literary tribute to his neighborhood. With great finesse, he tells the kal… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 20 March 2025
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz
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- English
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Gregor Gysi is a fixture on Germany’s political stage and an opinionated voice shaping the big debates of the post-reunification period. The longtime faction leader of the Left party is famous for h… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Gregor Gysi on the books of his life
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- Date: Thu. 20 March 2025
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Stadthalle Köln
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The literary magazine DAS GRAMM promises great literature in micro-format: Every issue contains a wonderful short story. At this event, three GRAMM authors, Philipp Winkler (“Creep”), Charlotte Gneuß (“Gi… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 20 March 2025
- Time: 19:30
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Grüner Saal
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“[Donald] is everything, he is everybody; he makes the same mistakes that we all make”, said the legendary cartoonist Carl Barks. A magnificent volume, Walt Disney’s Donald Duck: The Ultimate Histo… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 20 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Roter Saal
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In her shrewdly amusing crime novel You Scratch My Back, bestselling author Petra Hartlieb peers deep into Austria’s political soul. It’s Commissioner Alma Oberkofler’s first week in Vienna and alrea… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 20 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Thalia Mayersche Köln Neumarkt
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The key to every good song is good lyrics. That is, after all, why musician Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. The lyrics of Die Fantastischen Vier are a journey through 35 years… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 20 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Kristallsaal, Congress-Centrum Ost Koelnmesse
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Tickets for this event are only available through KölnMusik and at the Theaterkasse am Neumarkt, not through myticket.
For 25 years, we have had the pleasure of inspiring and entertaining Cologne audiences with the greatest authors, the most sensational stage artists, the most captivating actors and the most… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 20 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Philharmonie
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All-Age-Veranstaltung
The tupodcast is not just a podcast, it is a community for empowerment, education and entertainment. Since 2019, author Tupoka Ogette (“It’s Your Turn: Living a Life Critical of Racism”), Germany’s most pr… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 21 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Stadthalle Köln
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All-Age-Veranstaltung
Five years ago, the graphic novel “Rocky Beach” gave German fans a taste of what might have become of “The Three Investigators” had the perennially young characters grown up. Now fans can finally read th… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 21 March 2025
- Time: 17:30
- Location: Kulturkirche Köln
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Alexander Herrmann is one of Germany’s most famous chefs – not least thanks to his appearances on “Kitchen Impossible” or his show “Aufgegabelt”. At his restaurant AURA in the Bavarian town of Wirsberg, w… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 21 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Flora Köln
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It’s time for the next round of the lit.COLOGNE Debut Prize! Once again, we are seeking the most exciting debut novels published this spring. And the prize? The winner takes home the Silver Pig, d… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 21 March 2025
- Time: 19:00
- Location: BALLONI-Hallen
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We live in a day and age that loves arguments. Overheated debates, collapsing governments, social divides: Have we all become a bunch of squabblers? And if so: Is that actually a bad thing? A dispute… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 21 March 2025
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Brunosaal
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Hardly any figure in literary history is as closely linked to music as the legendary poet and singer Orpheus. His songs and the sounds of his lyre could tame animals, calm wild seas, move gods and… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 21 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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Die Einfache Sprache ist ästhetisch in die Veranstaltung integriert: Alle gelesenen Texte stammen aus der Feder von Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten selbst.
Let the cameras roll! This year, Remix! will take a cinematic turn. Whether it’s “Titanic”, “Lord of the Rings”, “Mary Poppins”, “Robin Hood”, “Pride and Prejudice”, “James Bond”, “Pirates of the Caribbean” or “50 Shades of… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 21 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Stadthalle Köln
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At a dinner party in 1922, novelist Virginia Woolf meets author and celebrated aristocrat Vita Sackville-West. It is the start of an all-consuming passion and a deep friendship that inspires the… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 21 March 2025
- Time: 20:30
- Location: Kulturkirche Köln
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The legendary “Zeitreise” [“Time Travel”] album by Wolfgang Niedecken’s band, BAP, was released in April 2024. It was put together from live footage of four memorable concerts in Cologne’s Sartory Sälen venue… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 21 March 2025
- Time: 21:00
- Location: Flora Köln
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In his new book, The Future Is Magic, Matthias Horx crisscrosses the borders between politics, business and journalism to present an extraordinary account of his life and work. Horx takes us from the… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event The future is magic – with Matthias Horx
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- Date: Sat. 22 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: BALLONI-Hallen
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All-Age-Veranstaltung | ab 16 Jahren
They have a combined total of 1.7 million followers on TikTok and Instagram. Gazelle and Gialu (@gazelleishername and @gialu.mx) delight huge numbers of fans with their videos on a range of topics,… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Gazelle and Gialu – never not changing. 25 first times
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- Date: Sat. 22 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Kulturkirche Köln
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Literature has all sorts of good spirits who appear when help is required, supporting protagonists in unconventional ways. There’s the down-to-earth variety such as Christine Nöstlinger’s guardian spir… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 22 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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Auf einer Dinnerparty 1922 lernt die Schriftstellerin Virginia Woolf die Autorin und gefeierte Aristokratin Vita Sackville- West kennen. Es ist der Beginn einer verzehrenden Leidenschaft und einer… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 22 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Flora Köln
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The story of phenomenally rich Jay Gatsby and beautifully smug Daisy Buchanan takes place in a time when “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession” (New York Times). In his 1925 mas… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 22 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: RheinEnergie-Hauptverwaltung (Eingang neben Kundenzentrum)
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Jakob Hein’s novels have already given us astonishing glimpses into world history (“Leutnant Stern and His Mission to the Orient”). This time, he stands out with an absurd retelling of history. Wie Grisc… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 22 March 2025
- Time: 18:30
- Location: Filmforum NRW im Museum Ludwig
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“I write thrillers and non-fiction books and host a podcast. Was I really just thinking about publishing a poetry collection? Simply plunking my heart on the operating table for a public dissection?” Eve… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Princess Standard – Romy Hausmann and Fortuna Ehrenfeld
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- Date: Sat. 22 March 2025
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Schauspiel Köln im DEPOT 1
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“I’ve decided to wring a good story out of this meaningless day”. Lena Klenke and Langston Uibel look into everyday sorrow Inspired by bestselling author Mariana Leky’s collection of columns, “Sorrow… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 22 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: BALLONI-Hallen
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An unaccompanied reading.
Wolf Haas has a loose connection An unaccompanied reading. Wolf Haas is the author of the cult hit series “Brenner” and master of the ingenious meta novel (“Verteidigung der Missionarstellung” [“In Defense o… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Wolf Haas has a loose connection
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- Date: Sat. 22 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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The story of phenomenally rich Jay Gatsby and beautifully smug Daisy Buchanan takes place in a time when “gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession” (New York Times). In his 1925 mas… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 22 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: RheinEnergie-Hauptverwaltung (Eingang neben Kundenzentrum)
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
Literature has all sorts of good spirits who appear when help is required, supporting protagonists in unconventional ways. There’s the down-to-earth variety such as Christine Nöstlinger’s guardian spir… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 22 March 2025
- Time: 20:30
- Location: Flora Köln
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“Some of the people who cheer for me today might have turned me in 30 years ago”, said Hans Rosenthal, who became famous in the 1970s as quizmaster on the legendary German TV game show “Dalli Dalli”. With hi… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 23 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Roter Saal
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Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) had an unparalleled influence on post-war literature. He brought laconic clarity into the billows of celebratory prose. Nobody else shaped the English language of the 2… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 23 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Flora Köln
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- Induction loop Available
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“It is one damn second which can turn a life upside down, which destroys dreams and plans, which makes the apparently self-explanatory seem absurd.” In the small community of Alpen in the Lower Rhine reg… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 23 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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“Love is important to you”, Catrin Meyr tells her chance traveling companion. Eduard Brünhofer, a once-renowned author of romance novels, is on the train from Vienna to Munich. Not necessarily with the … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 23 March 2025
- Time: 19:00
- Location: RheinEnergie-Hauptverwaltung (Eingang neben Kundenzentrum)
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When literary characters eat and drink, table manners are often forgotten. Between the pea soup, the knife rest and the fifth glass of wine in an airplane, we show who we really are: not the finest… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 23 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Induction loop Available
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Imagine it’s time for work and nobody goes. Because the job is now being done by artificial intelligence. In Someone Else Can Do That, author Sara Weber (“The World Is Ending, And I’m Still Supposed to Wo… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 23 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: BALLONI-Hallen
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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Eva Verena Müller is actually an actress and comedienne, but a few years ago she turned to science and obtained her doctorate in forest ecology. And she learned that nothing is more exciting than the … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 23 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Flora Köln
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- Sign language Available
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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“An epic work, thrilling but never moralizing. Lavie Tidhar is Israel’s answer to Don Winslow and James Ellroy”. Der Spiegel is not the only one to talk in grand terms about Lavie Tidhar’s thriller Maror. … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 23 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Roter Saal
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- English
- German
They are unorthodox thinkers and keen observers of political reality: Daniel Cohn-Bendit is an icon of the antiauthoritarian movement and sat in the European Parliament for the Greens for 20 years.… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Mon. 24 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: BALLONI-Hallen
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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Live-Podcast | Additional event on 19 March at the Theater am Tanzbrunnen.
Buffon’s nightmare meets Söder’s torment. Jonas Hector and Fabian Köster both live in Cologne. In their podcast, Schlag und fertig, they look for other things they have in common. Each week, Hector, the f… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Fabian Köster and Jonas Hector are a quick-witted pair
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- Date: Mon. 24 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Speech-to-text interpreting Available
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How does one become a writer? Is it possible to make a career out of writing? Can one live off of it? And what kind of a life will it be? Tomas Espedal is, along with his friend Karl Ove Knausgård, … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Mon. 24 March 2025
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Brunosaal
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- Norwegian
- German
Diese Lesung findet ohne Moderation statt.
In the small seaport of Stromness on the Orkney Islands, high in the cold European north, lives Paul, a Swiss decorator and interior designer. Paul does the slightly peculiar job of home staging. He… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Mon. 24 March 2025
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Oper Köln, Saal 2
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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Live podcast, event duration: 120 minutes, including intermission
One is 30 years old, the other is 75: Mona Ameziane and Christine Westermann represent two different generations and countless books read. They tackle a new topic in each episode of their literature… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Mon. 24 March 2025
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Flora Köln
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- Induction loop Available
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On a sweltering summer’s day, 13-year-old Patch is kidnapped. For his best friend, Saint, it’s the end of the world. While she does everything in her power to find him, Patch spends an eternity in a pit… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Mon. 24 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: BALLONI-Hallen
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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- English
- German
“The Love of Singular Men” is truly a singular novel. It’s ingenious like Cortazar or Nabokov, elliptical like Grace Paley, funny like Donald Barthelme. Upon finishing it you want to immediately meet the y… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Mon. 24 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Kulturkirche Köln
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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Katja Berlin has created a new genre of political satire. Over the past 10 years, with her legendary column “Torten der Wahrheit” [“Pie Charts of Truth”] in newspaper Die Zeit, she has delivered satiric… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Mon. 24 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
“Helmut Lang jackets, Rolex watches, Belgian fashion designers – none of that is my thing, doesn’t interest me at all. So why have I enjoyed reading this book so much? Apparently, it is what Florian Horwa… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Mon. 24 March 2025
- Time: 21:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Speech-to-text interpreting Available
- Induction loop Available
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A life in the fast lane, rebellious, unorthodox, full of joie de vivre and unbelievably strong and brave. That’s how Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt – TV producer, bestselling author and host of the “NDR Talk … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Tue. 25 March 2025
- Time: 17:30
- Location: Flora Köln
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- Speech-to-text interpreting Available
- Induction loop Available
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The world has gone off the rails: In Eastern Europe, Putin is waging war against Ukraine. In the Middle East, the Hamas attack on Israel has revealed the explosive nature of protracted conflicts like… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Tue. 25 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Sign language Available
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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“Life is hard. Poetry is easy”, as someone once said. That person couldn’t be more wrong. Because in order to read a text as it is truly meant to be read, the speaker must go to the limit. Michael Lentz… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Tue. 25 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Roter Saal
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- Induction loop Available
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With his series “The Thursday Murder Club”, Richard Osman became an overnight sensation in the British crime and humor genre. In 2020, he won author of the year at the British Book Awards. With We Sol… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event We Solve Murders – with Richard Osman and Michael Kessler
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- Date: Tue. 25 March 2025
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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- English
- German
Live-Podcast
“I would like to be one of the best-known authors in Germany” – with this statement Caroline Wahl provoked a lot of discussion when she first visited the podcast Hotel Matze in May 2024. “It is very honest … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Hotel Matze live – Caroline Wahl on ambition, success and writing
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- Date: Tue. 25 March 2025
- Time: 20:30
- Location: Flora Köln
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- Speech-to-text interpreting Available
- Sign language Available
- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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Joël Dicker’s novels are international bestsellers – the Swiss author’s “The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair” was hailed as a literary sensation and won him the Prix Goncourt. His latest thriller, … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event A wild animal – with Joël Dicker and Christian Berkel
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- Date: Tue. 25 March 2025
- Time: 21:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Induction loop Available
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- French
- German
Her debut “Axolotl Roadkill” was a sensation and she’s become a fixture of the German-speaking literature scene. Striker is Helene Hegemann’s eagerly awaited new novel, a high-speed, electrifying tale of… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Striker – Helene Hegemann on martial arts and class wars
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- Date: Tue. 25 March 2025
- Time: 21:00
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Roter Saal
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- Induction loop Available
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Ever since she was a child, Marie Niehoff has been a huge fan of fantasy novels. But they also have to be romantic. Today, she’s one of the most exciting authors in the romantasy genre. “Burning Cro… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Ashen throne – Marie Niehoff on her love of dragons
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- Date: Wed. 26 March 2025
- Time: 17:30
- Location: Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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Cecelia Ahern’s debut novel “P.S. I Love You” was an international bestseller and was made into a hugely successful film starring Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler. When her second novel, “Love, Rosie” was adapt… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 26 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Induction loop Available
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- English
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At first, Eckart von Hirschhausen observes the penguin with pity, noticing how unwieldy, slow and fragile it is on land. But when the penguin jumps into the water, he changes his opinion: In its… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 26 March 2025
- Time: 19:00
- Location: KOMED-Saal im MediaPark
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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Humanity – what a success story! Charles Darwin, who formulated the theory of evolution, would be proud: survival of the fittest. But what about the second-fittest? Anna Bühler and Christian Alt feel ba… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 26 March 2025
- Time: 19:30
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Roter Saal
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- Sign language Available
- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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“Takis Würger is surely one of the most important writers of our generation”, says Joël Dicker, praising Würger’s literary works (“The Club”, “Stella”). Following the success of his previous novels comes For Polina… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event For Polina – Takis Würger tells the love story of the year
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- Date: Wed. 26 March 2025
- Time: 20:30
- Location: Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz
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Bestselling author Volker Kutscher’s successful crime series featuring investigator Gereon Rath forms the basis of the cult TV series “Babylon Berlin”. Rath is the tenth book in the series and the grand… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 26 March 2025
- Time: 21:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Induction loop Available
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Tickets for this event are only available through KölnMusik and at the Theaterkasse am Neumarkt, not through myticket.
Half the nation saw him for the first time in the film “Das Boot”. His big musical breakthrough came with the record “4630 Bochum”, which along with his 2002 release “Mensch” is still among the top-ten hig… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 26 March 2025
- Time: 21:00
- Location: Philharmonie
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
Hundreds of thousands of followers adore his dryly cynical satire videos about the realities of post-migrant life in Germany. As the host of the discussion series “Tahsims Interview Format”, he reg… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Tahsim Durgun: “Mama, please learn German”
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- Date: Thu. 27 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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For such a small country, Ireland has produced a remarkable number of great writers. Including, of course, the unshakable James Joyce, naturalized American Colum McCann, and shooting star Sally… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 27 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Induction loop Available
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- English
- German
Three weeks, 21 stages, many thousands of kilometers – for 111 years, the Tour de France has been a huge sporting event with a tremendous fascinating power. Back in 1957, Roland Barthes compared it t… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 27 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Roter Saal
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- Sign language Available
- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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Every day, we read and hear about irregular migration and the need to tackle this problem. But who are these people who wash ashore on Lampedusa, who swim across a river to enter into Greece, who… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 27 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Stadtgarten
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- Assistance dogs welcome Available
- Rollstuhlgerechter Zugang + WC (JAKI Club nicht barrierefrei) Available
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- Arabic
- German
Live-Podcast
It all started in June 2020, with bestselling author Dörte Hansen as guest and a decent portion of potato salad à la Hemingway, just like the author received in Paris as payment for his first short s… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 27 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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“Literature can also be compared to a photo lab, where pictures of life can be processed in order to bring out their contours and nuances. [...] In reading we discover that our feelings are not s… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 27 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Basilika St. Aposteln (Seiteneingang Turm)
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Leider muss Marcel Kittel seine Teilnahme aus gesundheitlichen Gründen kurzfristig absagen. Wir hoffen, Sie weiterhin begrüßen zu dürfen. Sollten Sie sich dennoch gegen einen Besuch entscheiden, können Ihre Tickets über myticket oder Ihre Vorverkaufsstelle (bis zum 14.04.2025) storniert werden.
21 Etappen, 3 Wochen, viele Tausend Kilometer – die Tour de France ist seit 111 Jahren ein gigantisches Sportereignis mit einer ungeheuren Faszinationskraft. Schon Roland Barthes verglich sie 1957 m… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 27 March 2025
- Time: 20:30
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Roter Saal
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- Induction loop Available
- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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He played soccer for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the German Bundesliga, was in the national team from 2014 to 2016 and won the World Cup in 2014. Now, Christoph Kramer presents his literary debut. It … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Life began that summer – with Christoph Kramer and Tommi Schmitt
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- Date: Thu. 27 March 2025
- Time: 21:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Sign language Available
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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Multiple award-winning author and poet Raoul Schrott, whose works include “Erste Erde: Epos” [“The First Earth: An Epic Tale”] and “Inventur des Sommers” [“Inventory of Summer”], has taken on a unique and colo… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 27 March 2025
- Time: 21:00
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Grüner Saal
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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For nearly 40 years, on an unremarkable street in Cologne, people have stood for hours, trying to peek through a curtained window and waiting to be let into a magical world. “Le Moissonnier” is unu… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 28 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Stadthalle Köln
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Discussion and reading in German
Every Thursday, the grandfather visits his grandson’s grave. The mother dwells in deep grief, while the father tries to suppress what happened. When the family finally decides to look to the future, s… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 28 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Kulturkirche Köln
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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- German
Our times are shaped by crises and conflicts. The familiar geopolitical order is being realigned in the face of international conflicts, while anti-European politicians are grasping for power. Peace… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 28 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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Peruvian author and journalist Gabriela Wiener is one of the most exciting literary voices in Latin America. Her book Undiscovered was nominated for the 2024 International Booker Prize and is now… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 28 March 2025
- Time: 18:00
- Location: DEG - Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft
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- Spanish
- German
They are both legendary: Heidi, the young orphan in the Swiss Alps, and Dracula, the bloodsucking Romanian Count. And they both became pop culture icons. What are the parallels between Spyri’s work a… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 28 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Stadthalle Köln
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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Johann Scheerer is a man of many talents. As a music producer, he works with internationally successful artists. As an author he writes highly acclaimed novels (“Wir sind dann wohl die Angehörigen” [“I … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 28 March 2025
- Time: 21:00
- Location: Kulturkirche Köln
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Two students, she from East Germany and he from Switzerland, meet at the “House of the Red Army” in Erfurt in 1965. Both are very young – she’s 21, he’s 23. They fall in love and want to spend their lives tog… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 29 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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“The History of Bees” brought Norwegian author Maja Lunde international fame. In her new book, Shutter Speed, she once again delicately examines our connection with nature. On a normal June day, time sud… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 29 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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- Induction loop Available
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- English
- German
The great Irish writer Colm Tóibín is famous for his gripping storytelling as well as his precise and emotive characterizations. His novels, including international bestseller “Brooklyn” and its splen… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 29 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Kulturkirche Köln
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
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- English
- German
What would rock ‘n’ roll be without its stories? Without sex and drugs? Without hysterical fans? Without its delusions of grandeur? Without band secrets and the secrets of success (and failures)? Wit… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 29 March 2025
- Time: 17:30
- Location: Stadthalle Köln
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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Hendrik Streeck, director of the Institute for Virology at University Hospital Bonn, is best known as a pandemic expert and author of non-fiction. His new book Das Institut [“The Institute”] is a hig… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 29 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Kulturkirche Köln
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
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Bedauerlicherweise muss die Veranstaltung aus gesundheitlichen Gründen kurzfristig abgesagt werden. Wir arbeiten an einer Verlegung und hoffen, Ihnen bald einen Ersatztermin anbieten zu können. Daher erfolgt die Erstattung der Tickets nicht automatisch. Sollten Sie Ihre Tickets zurückgeben wollen, können diese über myticket oder Ihre Vorverkaufsstelle (bis zum 28.04.2025) storniert werden.
“Only a few people are as good at explaining societal developments and background as sociologist and author Aladin El-Mafaalani” (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg). El-Mafaalani has been conducting res… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 29 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Brunosaal
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Ursula K. Le Guin was a pioneer of science fiction and fantasy literature and her books still shape popular culture today. The blockbuster “Avatar” is based on her novel, “The Word for World is Fores… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 29 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Volksbühne am Rudolfplatz
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
This is what Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most feared critic, wrote to his wife, Yulia Navalnaya. Katja Kolm began collecting the activist’s prison writings in 2021, in order to make them available to the… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 29 March 2025
- Time: 20:30
- Location: Stadthalle Köln
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- Wheelchair friendly + toilets Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Duration of the event: 120 minutes | Additional event on 30 March.
One thing is certain: Thees Uhlmann has been playing in the Champion’s League of German singer-songwriters for many years. Almost incidentally, he also became a celebrated author with “Sophia, Death and… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 29 March 2025
- Time: 21:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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ADDITIONAL EVENT: All the noise and dirt and dust – 30 years of songs and writing with Thees Uhlmann
Duration of the event: 120 minutes.
One thing is certain: Thees Uhlmann has been playing in the Champion’s League of German singer-songwriters for many years. Almost incidentally, he also became a celebrated author with “Sophia, Death and… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 30 March 2025
- Time: 16:00
- Location: Theater am Tanzbrunnen
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August 1975: The Van Laars, a family of rich bankers, have created a camp amid the fabulous natural scenery of upstate New York. For years, it’s been a place where children and teens enjoy expansive n… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event The God of the Woods – with Liz Moore and Marleen Lohse
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- Date: Sun. 30 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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“A beautifully written paean to music”, says The Observer of the new book by bestselling author Michel Faber (“Under the Skin”, “The Book of Strange New Things”). In Listen: On Music, Sound and Us, Faber wants… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 30 March 2025
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Kulturkirche Köln
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We encounter change in many forms: whether it’s a change of heart, worries about climate change, or the discovery of our own changeability. The experience of growing up, in particular, involves c… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 30 March 2025
- Time: 19:00
- Location: COMEDIA Theater, Grüner Saal
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Biting irony and humane sarcasm are what make Thomas Mann’s works so unique. It began with a quirky family from Lübeck, then moved on to dog owners and the Half Lung Club in a Swiss sanatorium, An… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 30 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Theater am Tanzbrunnen
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Florence in the 1550s: Painter Jacopo da Pontormo is found dead. Stabbed with scissors, he lies at the foot of his unfinished fresco in the San Lorenzo chapel. He’d been working on it for 11 years. N… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 30 March 2025
- Time: 20:00
- Location: WDR Funkhaus, Klaus-von-Bismarck-Saal
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