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BOOKFEST digital – worldwide
Relive BOOKFEST digital again on YouTube
Welcome to BOOKFEST digital
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Welcome to BOOKFEST digital
LiveKids
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Katja Brandis liest live aus "Seawalkers. Wilde Wellen" + Live-Fragerunde
Live DESpeaker: Katja Brandis, Autorin
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Meet Axel Scheffler
Live DESpeaker: Axel Scheffler
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Alexander Steffensmeier and Lieselotte
Live DESpeaker: Alexander Steffensmeier
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A special Storytime with the United Nations SDG Book Club and “Razia's Ray of Hope”
Live ENSpeaker: Elizabeth Suneby
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Culture and Superheros - A Conversation with David A. Robertson
Live DE ENSpeaker: David Alexander Robertson
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"Die drei Fragezeichen und die Welt der Hörspiele" - A conversation with C.R. Rodenwald
Live DESpeaker: C.R. Rodenwald
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Peter Wohlleben talks about his “Peter & Piet”-books
Live DESpeaker: Peter Wohlleben, German forester and author
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„Mein Lotta-Leben. Das letzte Eichhorn“
Live DE
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Kirsten Boie talks about her “Sommerby”-books
Live DESpeaker: Kirsten Boie, award-winning author of children’s and young adult books
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Liz Pichon presents "Shoe Wars"
Live ENSpeaker: Liz Pichon
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Tessloff and Stefan Heine present the Rätselküche
Live DE
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Reading by Antonia C. Wesseling from her book “Wie viel wiegt mein Leben?”
Live DESpeaker: Antonia C. Wesseling
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Live drawing with the Swiss comic artist Nando von Arb
Live DESpeaker: Nando von Arb
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From “Lippel’s Dream” to “The Sat”: A Conversation with Paul Maar
Live DE
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Chris Bradford und "Samurai - Die Rückkehr des Kriegers"
Live ENSpeaker: Chris Bradford
Travel
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„Die Klimaschmutzlobby“ - The climate pollution lobby
Live DE
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Green matters! A talk on sustainable lifestyle
Live DESpeaker: Mimi Sewalski, Sociologist and CEO of Avocadostore
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MARCO POLO Online-Talk
Live DE
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Alexander Sperling "Glashauseffekt"
Live DESpeaker: Alexander Sperling
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Live-Talk with Dirk Steffens and Fritz Habekuß
Live DE
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As a woman traveling alone - in impassable countries
Live DEFood
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Do women cook differently?
Live DE
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Vegan Klischee Ade - Das Kochbuch
Live DESpeaker: Niko Rittenau, University lecturer, seminar leader and speaker
and one more speaker
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7 Mal anders - Jamie Oliver presents 7 recipe ideas for your favorite ingredients
Live DE ENSpeaker: Jamie Oliver, Star chef
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The “Cat” serves up her favourite family recipes, sprinkled with stories and personal insights.
Live DESpeaker: Daniela Katzenberger
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Eating with Africa - My journey through the African kitchens
Live DE ENSpeaker: Maria Schiffer
German Stories
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German Bestseller-Authors and their literary starts.
Live DE
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You don't look gay
Live DE
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Amed Sherwan talks about his book »Kafir. Thank Allah I am an Atheist«
Live DESpeaker: Amed Sherwan , Autor
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Jan Weiler
Live DESpeaker: Jan Weiler
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Bas Kast: Das Buch eines Sommers. Werde, der du bist
Live DESpeaker: Bas Kast
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Zora del Buono talks to Bärbel Schäfer about the heroine of her new novel: her grandmother.
Live DESpeaker: Zora del Buono
Gastländer
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The Future Library - A Century Enfolds
Live DE ENSpeaker: Katie Paterson
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Covering Georgia
Live EN
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Ana Roš: Sun and Rain
Live DESpeaker: Ana Roš, The author of Sun and Rain
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Art in Crisis
Live ENGerman Bestsellers
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Marko Martin - Die verdrängte Zeit. Vom Verschwinden und Entdecken der Kultur des Ostens.
Live DESpeaker: Marko Martin, German writer and publicist
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Olga Grjasnowa: Reading and interview
Live DESpeaker: Olga Gryaznova
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Marc-Uwe Kling presents: QualityLand
Live DESpeaker: Marc-Uwe Kling
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Wiebke Porombka talks to Ulrike Draesner at the Bücherherbst about her current novel Schwitters.
LiveSpeaker: Ulrike Draesner
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Wladimir Kaminer in a Live-Talk about his new book
Live DESpeaker: Wladimir Kaminer
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Live Session with Vincent Gross powered by Blick, Switzerland's biggest tabloid newspaper.
Live DESpeaker: Vincent Gross
International
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Ibram X. Kendi about »How to Be an Antiracist«
Live ENSpeaker: Ibram X Kendi
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Seven Kinds of people you find in Bookshops
Live ENSpeaker: Shaun Bythell
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Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor in conversation with Bärbel Schäfer
Live ENSpeaker: Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Kenyan writer
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Shaun Tan presents "Tales from the Inner City"
Live DE ENSpeaker: Shaun Tan
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Against Oblivion - with Héctor Abad, Daniela Abad and Fernando Trueba
Live ENAdventure
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Arved Fuchs: “Das Eis schmilzt” - rethinking climate protection and the economy
Live DESpeaker: Arved Fuchs
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Cape to Cape - In record time by bike from the North Cape to South Africa
Live DESpeaker: Jonas Deichmann, Munich extreme athlete
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Ahas! Moments of Inspired Thought
Live EN
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Fair Wanderlust – All about Green Traveling by the Two German Travel Blogger “Zweidiereisen”
Live DE
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»In Ringelsocken aufs Dach der Welt« with Julia E. Schultz
Live DESpeaker: Julia E. Schultz
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BRIGITTE LIVE with Carmen Korn
Live DEUSA
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Edward Snowden
Live ENSpeaker: Edward Snowden
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Ayad Akhtar in conversation with Daniel Kehlmann
Live DE EN
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Eliot Weinberger
Live ENSpeaker: Eliot Weinberger
Exclusiv: Margaret Atwood
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Conversation with Margaret Atwood
Live ENGuest of Honour 2021: Canada
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Hope Against Despair
Live EN
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We Contain Multitudes
Live EN
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Picture Perfect
Live ENEurope is Fun
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A journey through European Stories
Live EN
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Matt Haig im Gespräch mit seinem Herausgeber Francis Bickmore.
Live EN
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William Boyd
Live ENSpeaker: William Boyd
Arts project Istanbul/Berlin
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From Istanbul, to the world. istanbulberlin
Live DE EN
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Dilek Mayatürk: "Brache"
Live DESpeaker: Dilek Mayatürk
Welcome to BOOKFEST digital
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Welcome to BOOKFEST digital
LiveFantastic women
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Elizabeth Gilbert und Hans Jürgen Balmes, City of Girls
Live EN
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Women in Battle #3 Focus Canada/Norway
Live DE EN
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“Made for more”
Live DESpeaker: Dana Schwandt
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Petra Morsbach "Der Elefant im ZImmer"
Live DESpeaker: Petra Morsbach
Female activists
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She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement
Live EN
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On a Bench - Amelie Fried “Die Spur des Schweigens”
Live DE
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Love & Read – Der Romantasy-Talk von Impress
Live DE
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Benjamin Moser about Susan Sontag
Live DE ENSpeaker: Benjamin Moser
Food
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Ross Antony bakes WW (formerly Weight Watchers)
Live DESpeaker: Ross Antony
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Meet The Authors from HQ, HarperCollins
Live EN
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Thrilling: Uri Buri tells of his colourful life and lets us peek into his kitchen
Live DE
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Lorena Palombo
Live DESpeaker: Lorena Palombo
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7 Mal anders - Jamie Oliver presents 7 recipe ideas for your favorite ingredients
Live DE ENSpeaker: Jamie Oliver, Star chef
Publishing heroes
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Roundtable mit Top-Autoren von Amazon Publishing & Kindle Direct Publishing
Live DE
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“How much regular’s table talk should there be?”
Live DE
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Sketchnotes for beginners - Learn how to create sketchnotes
Live DESpeaker: Nadine Roßa
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Eva Madelung ist talking about her book “ERBEN”
Live DESpeaker: Eva Madelung, German writer
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Do we know each other? Mentalist Timon Krause gives us a guide to the knowledge of human nature
Live DESpeaker: Timon Krause, Mind reader, philosopher and trainer in human insight
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Buchblog-Award: three winners introduce themselves
Live DEFocus Asia
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Australian books: More Than Just Grit
Live EN
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The New World Order: How the pandemic has changed the course of history forever
Live EN
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What can European literary institutes do to support the growth of Africa's literary industries?
Live DE EN
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Karadi Tales
Live EN
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Indonesian Children's Book Illustration
Live ENSpeaker: Speaker
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Theatre of Voice: Four Stories From Taiwan
Live EN
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The Testimony in Salted Rain
Live ENFocus Asia/Spain
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CHEN Qiufan: How Chinese Science Fiction Imagines the Apocalypse
Live ENSpeaker: CHEN Qiufan, Chinese science fiction author, columnist and script writer
and 2 more speakers
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First German Edition of Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" (Die Legende der Adlerkrieger)
Live DE
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Marina Perezagua
Live ENSpeaker: Marina Perezagua
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Daniel Innerarity
Live ENSpeaker: Daniel Innerarity
International
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International LitCam Talks - Canada: Education in times of Covid-19
Live EN
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International LitCam Talks - The effects of the Covid-19 crises on the Indian educational system
Live EN
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Slavoj Žižek live
Live DE ENSpeaker: Slavoj Žižek
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Candice Carty-Williams and Sharmaine Lovegrove talk about "Queenie"
Live EN
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Pulitzer Prize Winner Jeffrey Stewart on the Lasting Impact of Alain Locke
Live ENSpeaker: Jeffrey C. Stewart
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Zum 700. Todestag des Sommo Poeta stellt die Dante-Alighieri-Gesellschaft „DANTES ITALIEN“ vor.
Live ENSpeaker: Prof. Giulio Ferroni
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Black Lives Matter
Live ENCrime
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Håkan Nesser live
Live ENSpeaker: Håkan Nesser
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Searching for the perpetrator: about the beginnings of criminalistics
Live DE
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STERN CRIME in a talk with Karsten Dusse
Live DE
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Martin Krist reads from "Niemand wird vergeben"
Live DESpeaker: Martin Krist
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The fastest written crime story in the world
Live DE
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Michaela Kastel with »Ich bin der Sturm« („I am the Storm“)
Live DESpeaker: Michaela Kastel
Focus Brazil/Chile/Nicaragua/Argentina
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Raúl Zurita: poetry as the essence of every creation
Live ENSpeaker: Raúl Zurita
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Centroamérica cuenta¨: How literary festivals contribute to social discourses and cultural dialogues
Live ENSpeaker: Sergio Ramirez
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Literature translates us
Live ENSpeaker: ENCUENTRO Channel
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Poetry, Novel and Color
Live EN
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Brazilian Contemporary Literature
Live EN
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Caipirinha Hour
Live ENGerman times
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A star, that bears your name. Lutz Seiler about Berlin in 1990
Live DE
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Franz Müntefering
Live DESpeaker: Franz Müntefering
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Jan Fleischhauer "How dare you!"
Live DESpeaker: Jan Fleischhauer
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75 years Süddeutsche Zeitung: SZ authors recommend books from the editorial staff
Live DE
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Man - simply ingenious! Understand anatomy even as a non-medical person
Live DESpeaker: Prof. Dr. med. Jens Waschke
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Je schauerlicher, desto schöner
Live DEFantastic colors
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Two views on female Portuguese literature Dulce Maria Cardoso and Margarida Vale de Gato
Live EN
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Education in a digital era with Reclam Hörbücher, the audio books of all relevant literature pieces
Live DE
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A passion for the ocean – Science Notes talks with Uli Kunz
Live DE
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Tobias Roth über die "Welt der Renaissance"
Live DESpeaker: Tobias Roth
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DJ Tomekk - I live for Hip Hop
Live DESpeaker: DJ Tomekk
Focus Indonesia
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Book discussion: Remaking an IP: Old but New
Live ENSpeaker: Speaker
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Brave New World - Covid and the Arts
Live EN
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Indonesien Comic - Art and Archive
Live ENFocus India/Taiwan
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A multilingual journey across India
Live EN
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Theatre of Voice: Four Stories From Taiwan
Live EN
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The Testimony in Salted Rain
Live ENOur moderators at Studio 1
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Our moderators at Studio 2
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The international festival of books at home
Every year in October, culture enthusiasts from all over the world celebrate the BOOKFEST together – the big international cultural festival of Frankfurter Buchmesse.
From bestseller events with world-famous authors* to discussion rounds, workshops and performances. This year, BOOKFEST will take place physically as BOOKFEST city and for the first time virtually as BOOKFEST digital.
On Saturday, 17 October 2020, BOOKFEST digital will broadcast a multi-faceted programme throughout the day. It will present, among others: Elizabeth Gilbert, Margaret Atwood, Ayad Akhtar, Eliot Weinberger, Kirsten Boie, Don Winslow, Olga Grjasnowa, Slavoj Žižek, Håkan Nesser, Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey, Edward Snowden, Jamie Oliver.
Canada is preparing a series of virtual programme elements that will show the diversity, creativity and uniqueness of the Canadian literary and cultural scene. The future host countries Spain and Slovenia will also be represented in both BOOKFEST programme formats. The former Guest of Honour countries Norway and Georgia will also present famous and popular authors from their countries.
BOOKFEST digital will be livestreamed on YouTube and buchmesse.de – along with selected highlights on Facebook.
All this and much more is possible at BOOKFEST digital
- Cultural and literary performances
- Book and technology presentations
- Discussions on politics and society
- All that’s new in lifestyle, travel and cooking
- Music and cooking shows
More live programmes
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