Readings
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2026
2025
- November 4, 2025: Literary Gathering – Lectures francophones – Exchange with the Dresden-Strasbourg Reading Ambassadors
- October 21, 2025: Reading by Fann Attiki: Cave 72 – Reading and discussion with the author
- June 25, 2025: Reading by Audrée Wilhelmy (Québec): *Bluthaut*
- June 5, 2025: Contemporary French-Language Literature from the Caribbean – Reading by Ralph Ludwig: “Irrschweifen und Lachen. L’errance et le rire”
- January 27, 2025: Poetry Evening – “Poèmes embarbelés – Poems Behind Barbed Wire”
2024
- November 14, 2024: Reading by Mathias Énard, *Dance of Betrayal*
- October 23, 2024: Reading by Hélène Laurain, *Until Everything Burns*
- April 24, 2024: Reading by Audrée Wilhelmy (Québec): “Weißes Harz”
- March 23, 2024: Reading by Anne Weber, “Bannmeilen”
- March 20, 2024: Literary Discussion: Lilia Hassaine & Anne Thomas
- March 2, 2024: Apéro Littéraire: On Amin Maalouf with Torsten König
2023
- June 9, 2023: Reading by Wilfried N'Sondé: “Die Frau des Himmels und der Stürme”
- February 9, 2023: Cécile Wajsbrot and Marcel Beyer: “Nevermore” —A Conversation on Memory, Writing, and Translation
2022
- December 8, 2022: Reading & Discussion with Boualem Sansal on “Abraham or The Fifth Covenant”
- October 27, 2022: Max Lobe – Reading and discussion on “Confidences” (original French title: Confidences)
- September 30, 2022 – Serge Bloch: Reading from “La Rue de l’Ours”
- June 22, 2022 – Lou Lubie: Reading & discussion with the author and comic artist
- May 8, 2022 – Reading & discussion with Fatima Daas on her novel “The Youngest Daughter”
- May 4, 2022 –Book presentation: Ralph Ludwig, “L’Errance et le rire: A New Breath of Life for Caribbean Literature”
2021
- October 7, 2021 – “Sanfte Debakel.” Reading and discussion with Yanick Lahens (Haiti)
- October 4, 2021 - “The Migrant and the Nomad: Twin Brothers or Enemy Brothers?”
Reading and discussion with Franco-Moroccan writer Youssouf Amine Elalamy - September 15, 2021 - “The Fugitives.” A conversation with Alain Damasio & Milena Adam
- April 15, 2021 - Living on a Border – Time of Shadows. Reading and discussion with Léonora Miano
- March 23, 2021 - Reading by Camilla Renschke from the novel *Der Ausbruch* by Albertine Sarrazin
2020
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November 10, 2020 - Digital reading of “Palacinche. Histoire d’une exilée” with comic book author Alessandro Tota, followed by a discussion in French
- October 29, 2020 – Julia Deck read from her book *Privateigentum*
- January 21, 2020 – Franco-German Day “Germany and France: Together Against Antisemitism and Racism”: Anna Langfus (1920–1966): “Salz und Schwefel”
2019
- September 17, 2019 – “At Night, Our Blood Is Black.” Reading and discussion with the Franco-Senegalese author David Diop
- June 27, 2019 - Fellow Lecture:PD Dr. Martina Stemberger: “Allez, rentrez chez vous et racontez ce que vous avez vu”: On the Aesthetics of Engagement in Contemporary Francophone Travel Literature
- June 7, 2019 - Cécile Wajsbrot: “Explorer la question de la création” – The “Haute Mer” Arts Cycle. Reading and discussion on the occasion of the International Colloquium in honor of Margarete Zimmermann “In the Dialogue of the Arts. New Perspectives on the Work of Cécile Wajsbrot” (June 6–7, 2019)
2018
- Cécile Wajsbrot Poetry Lecture Series 2018 – Reading & Workshop Discussion
- October 15, 2018 – Kettly Mars: Reading and discussion of her new novel “Die zwielichtige Stunde”
- June 20, 2018 – La Migration des murs. The Migration of Walls – French-language poetry from Haiti and Quebec with authors James Noël and Hector Ruiz