Archive
The events before August 2022 can be found at the following link (German only).
“History without End”. Edmund de Waal on Collecting and Remembering
Issues of our Time / Anniversary
Writing about Sexualised Violence
With Lana Lux and Agota Lavoyer
Nell Zink
Sister Europe
Special Birthday Celebration
Anniversary
sold out
Das Literaturhaus Basel. Between Utopia and Social Reality
Anniversary
Tash Aw: Stranger on the Pier. Portrait of a Family
Anniversary
A Guide to the Art of Walking
Anniversary
Helene Hegemann
Striker
canceled
Sofa Reading with Elen Fern
When the Catfish Come
Sunday Stories
Otto von Something-or-Other. By and with Peter Stamm
Markus Thielemann
Thunder Rolls in from the North
Urs Faes
Summer Shadows
canceled
Cultural Compass
An Afternoon of Reading with the Story-loving dog Kiyoshi
canceled
Phillip B. Williams
Ours
Manfred Koch
Rilke. Dichter der Angst
CH Slam 25
Opening Gala
Mareike Fallwickl
And All so Quiet
Faruk Šehić
Quiet Flows the Una
Second Thoughts
The World Cannot Continue as It Is
Ursula Krechel
Dear Mrs. Minister
Sofa Reading with Miriam Suter & Natalia Widla
Never for Love
Sunday Morning Stories
Order and Chaos
Nadia Brügger & Valerie-Katharina Meyer
Resistance and Audacity
Meral Kureyshi
We Never Made it to the Sea
Prix Ahmadou Kourouma
Reading and Discussion with the Prize Winner
Tomas Espedal
Lust
Anton Weil
Super lonely
Sunday Afternoon Stories
Huts, Houses and Palaces
Fragen der Zeit – Issues of our Time: Maria Stepanova
The Leap
Because the Wounds will become Birds. Ukrainian Landscapes
With Artur Dron, Anatolij Dnistrowyj, Alexander Kratochvil & Halyna Petrosanyak
Sofa Reading with Laura Leupi
The Alphabet of Sexualized Violence
Sunday Afternoon Stories
Stories from the North
Basler U20-Poetry Slam Final
In Search of Europe
With Vadim Jendreyko, Sacha Batthyany and Claudia Josi
Roger de Weck
Steady as she goes
Jonas Lüscher
Enchanted Destiny
Anja Nunyola Glover
What I don’t tell you
FRANZISKA SCHUTZBACH
Revolution of Connection
PAULA FÜRSTENBERG
Everyday Global Life
GESCHICHTEN AM SONNTAGVORMITTAG
A Musical Journey: Gulliver's Travels for Children
OLGA GRJASNOWA
July, August, September
QUARTIER-TALKS
Can Culture open the Way to Utopia?
SOFALESUNG MIT TANJA MILJANOVIĆ
Wen we are Human again
SECOND THOUGHTS – THE NEW LATE NIGHT FORMAT
The world can't stay the same.
EVA ILLOUZ: «EXPLOSIVE MODERNITY»
Issues of our Time – Fragen der Zeit
DO WE WRITE TO REMEMBER – OR NOT TO FORGET?
The Wortstellwerk at the Literaturhaus
IGIABA SCEGO
Cassandra in Mogadishu
LAUTPOESIE-FESTIVAL
With Stefan Zweifel, Alexander Kluge, Elke Schipper, Michael Lentz, Dagmara Kraus, Christian Uetz, Urs Allemann, a.o.
FRANZ HOHLER
Franz Hohler & friends
sold out
RENÉ AGUIGAH
James Baldwin. The witness. A portrait
ALAIN CLAUDE SULZER
Just like a brother
MICHELLE STEINBECK
Favorita
SOFA READING WITH LORENA SIMMEL
Ferrymont
DISCUSSION IN KLOSTER SCHÖNTHAL: WRITING ABOUT NATURE
With Usama Al Shahmani, Cornelia Eisenach & Levin Westermann
THEATERPLATZ – FEST
ERASMUS CALLS!
“Theory of peace”
ANDISHEH KARAMI
Writer in residence – A workshop discussion
BOOK LAUNCH: MARIANN BÜHLER
Shift in the rock
SUNDAY MORNING STORIES
Breakfast with Pettersson
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
SOFA-SUMMER-ANNIVERSARY-PARTY
With Michael Fehr
FROM THE LOGBOOK OF "WEICHENWÄRTER:INNEN"
Guest Appearance by the Wortstellwerk at the Literaturhaus
ANGELIKA OVERATH
Women of Engadin
FI&L
Feminism, Intersections & Literature
ISLAM ALIJAJ
We Need to Talk. A Biographical Manifesto
SOFA READING WITH CARLO LEONE SPILLER
In Truth it was Beautiful
WALTER MORGENTHALER
The Village – a Report
SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES
Leaves, nothing but leaves
FOREST FESTIVAL ON THE THEATERPLATZ
With Insect Walks with Maria Marggraf and Love Poetry from Sascha Rijkeboer
ULRICH STADLER
The Eternal Enigma. A Cultural History of the Flea.
ROBERT MENASSE
Tomorrow´s World. Discussion about a post-national Europe
GAEA SCHOETERS
Trophäe
RONYA OTHMANN
Seventy-Four
SOFA READING WITH SASCHA RIJKEBOER
«My Venus is in Cancer»
HUMBOOKS x LITERATURHAUS
Laura Leupi & Jessica Jurassica
NICOLE SEIFERT
“A few gentlemen mentioned something about it”. Female authors of the group 47
EVAN TEPEST
Write the name of your mother
SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES
The garden of Abdul Gasazi
BOOK LAUNCH: LUKAS HOLLIGER
1983. Cursed heat
CAROLIN EMCKE
What is true. About violence and climate
SOFA READING WITH ALEXANDRE LECOULTRE AND RUTH GANTERT
Peter and so on
BOOK LAUNCH: UELI MÄDER
My brother Marco
sold out
THOMAS SARBACHER READS JON FOSSE
Prose and poetry
RUDOLF BUSSMAN
Promised Land
BEING HUMAN
Authors against Hate
DANIEL SCHREIBER
Times of Loss
CHRISTINA CLEMM
Opposing Misogyny
THOMAS SPARR
“I Want to Go on Living, even after my Death”. The Biography of Anne Frank´s Diary
SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES
Can we kiss frogs?
KYIV – (KEEP-) WRITING
With Tanja Maljartschuk
NECATI ÖZIRI
Vatermal
FINAL BASLER U20-POETRY-SLAM-CHAMPIONSHIP 2024
ISSUES OF OUR TIME – FRAGEN DER ZEIT: ZERUYA SHALEV
Not me
SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES
When visitors arrive…
FRAGEN DER ZEIT / ISSUES OF OUR TIME: LINKS ≠ WOKE. OR IS IT? THE LEFT TODAY
Susan Neiman & Patricia Purtschert
TERÉZIA MORA
Muna or the half of life
ALBERT DEBRUNNER (HRSG.)
Wladimir Sagal: "Above all heads, jewish heads"
SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES
In winter, when darkness falls
ZOLTÁN DANYI
Rose novel
INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE
Theres Roth-Hunkeler & Laura Vogt
SUNDAY MORNING STORIES:
THE SHORTEST DAY
MATTO KÄMPF
Soup, Soap, Salvation
canceled
SYLVIE SCHENK
Maman
Talking about New Books II
Gianna Olinda Cadonau: Fire Lily
CORNELIA KAZIS & BETTINA UGOLINI
The old gang
TOM SEGEV
Jerusalem in a corner of Berlin: Autobiography
CHRISTOPH KELLER
Flooding Africa
DIATY DIALLO
Two seconds of burning air
Talking about New Books I
Lukas Gloor, Timbuktu & Judith Keller, Wild Manoeuvres
100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TURKISH REPUBLIC
ÇIĞDEM AKYOL: THE DIVIDED REPUBLIC. TURKEY FROM ATATURK TO ERDOGAN
RAFIK SCHAMI
When you tell stories, the desert blossoms
GUEST APPEARANCE OF THE WORTSTELLWERK
Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry
Il n’y a pas d’arc-en-ciel au paradis
SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES
WHAT´S COOKING IN THAT POT OVER THERE?
JUDITH SCHALANSKY
10 Years of the Natural History Imprint (Naturkunden)
LITERARY WALK
On the trail of Hermann Hesse in Basel
sold out
A. L. KENNEDY
Alive in a merciful Country
Sofa reading
Saskia Winkelmann: Höhenangst (fear of heights)
ILIJA TROJANOW
A thousand and one Mornings
GIANNA MOLINARI
Behind the Hedge the World (Hinter der Hecke die Welt)
ANNA ROSENWASSER
The Pink Book (Rosa Buch)
TIJAN SILA
Radio Sarajevo (Ratueso Sarajevo)
CLEMENS J. SETZ
Moons before the Landing (Monde vor der Landung)
SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES
Questions About Questions
Gabriele von Arnim and Pasqualina Perrig-Chiello
Sickness and Loss. Talks and Readings at Kloster Schönthal
WRITING AS RESISTANCE
Wagdy El Komy, Jafar Sael, Joël László and Jurczok 1001
SOFA READING
Julia Rüegger: «loneliness is a place name»
SEASON OPENING
with Mina Hava, Klaus Merz and Laura Wohnlich
FESTIVAL OF YOUTH CULTURE
Poetry Slam, Workshop, Open Stage Readings
FESTIVAL of YOUTH CULTURE
Poetry Slam, Workshop, Open Stage Readings
LITERARY WALK: THE COCKROACH IS ME
Lore Berger
A Contra Story
Sofa-Sommer-Sause
Paula Rot
33 BOOKS FOR A BETTER BELARUS
INTER-GENERATIONAL DIALOGUES: WITH VERENA STÖSSINGER & JULIA WEBER
MOTHERHOOD
LITERARY WALKS: THE COCKROACH IS ME
HENRI-MICHEL YÉRÉ
POLO KOUMAN/ POLO PARLE
JONAS LÜSCHER AND KATRIN MEYER
Populism and Democracy. Discussions and Readings in Kloster Schönthal
CHARLES FERDINAND RAMUZ
THE PRESENCE OF DEATH (STURZ IN DIE SONNE)
FRAGEN DER ZEIT – ISSUES OF OUR TIME: FELWINE SARR
The Places Where My Dreams Live
THEATERPLATZ DAY: ELONA BEQIRAJ & FATBARDH KQIKU
Diaspora Blues
BOOK LAUNCH: FELIX UHLMANN
The Latest State of Error (Der letzte Stand des Irrtums)
FRANZ HOHLER
The year that keeps on going
few seats
SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES
Trees
MICHAIL SCHISCHKIN & ARTEM TROITSKY
Talking about Russia
MOHAMED MBOUGAR SARR
The Most Secret Memory of Men
YADE YASEMIN ÖNDER
We know, we could, and we fall in sync
LEILA ABOULELA
Elsewhere, Home
Poetry Festival
Podium: War against women. With Sultan Yaray and Meral Şimşek
Poetry Festival
Voices of war: Reading and discussion with Marianna Kiyanovska
SASHA FILIPENKO
Cremulator
Book launch: Adam Schwarz
Glitch (Glitsch)
SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES
DogsandCats
ZÜLFÜ LIVANELI
The Fisherman and his Son
EMILIA ROIG
The End of Marriage
sold out
AN EVENING FOR MONIKA NEUN
And then disappear
KATERYNA MISHCHENKO & KATHARINA RAABE
Out of the Fog of War
PRIX AHMADOU KOUROUMA
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES
Anger
LIFE AND WRITING II
Judith Hermann: We Could Have Said it All
LIFE AND WRITING I
Arno Geiger: The Happy Secret
sold out
CRISTINA MORALES
Easy Reading
RALPH THARAYIL
Take the Alps Away
FINAL OF THE BASLER U20-POETRY-SLAM-CHAMPIONSHIP 2023
sold out
NATALKA SNIADANKO
The Neat Orders of Archduke Wilhelm
MICHAL GOVRIN
Love on the Shore
SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES
Happiness
DANIELA DRÖSCHER
Lies About my Mother
DŽEVAD KARAHASAN
The Practice of Floating
PETER STAMM
In a Dark-Blue Hour
BEHZAD KARIM KHANI & HUSSEIN MOHAMMADI
Remarkable Debuts
MOVEMENTS & MOMENTS
Indigenous Feminisms
WORKSHOP DISCUSSION WITH AMANDA MICHALOPOULOU
Why I Killed my Best Friend
SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES
Sleeping and Dreaming
ILMA RAKUSA & ROBERT KOPP
Sound and Rhythm in the Work of Marguerite Duras
CHRISTOPH GEISER & JULIA RÜEGGER
Intergenerational Dialogue
SUNDAY MORNING STORIES
Tomte Tummetott and Other Important Beings
INGEBORG BACHMANN & MAX FRISCH
“We Didn’t Do Well.” The Correspondence («Wir haben es nicht gut gemacht.» Der Briefwechsel)
MARTINA CLAVADETSCHER
Before our Eyes (Vor aller Augen)
ASLI ERDOĞAN
Requiem for a Lost City
100th BIRTHDAY OF KUNO RAEBER
Guest Appearance of Zytglogge and NZZ Libro at the Literaturhaus
Switzerland and Europe – What Next? With Steffen Klatt, Martin Gollmer and Elia Heer
M’ILLUMINO D’IMMENSO
Poetry Translation Prize for Ruth Gantert
URSULA FRICKER & EDITH GARTMANN
Family Tales
WOLF HAAS
Garbage (Müll)
CAROLIN AMLINGER & OLIVER NACHTWEY
Freedom in Chains. Aspects of Libertarian Authoritarianism
MICHAL STEINEMANN & ARIANE VON GRAFFENRIED
Rockhall-Lectures
GUEST APPEARANCE BY THE WORTSTELLWERK
First Shoots
Life Stories – retold from a feminist perspective
Spain – Guest of Honour at the Frankfurter Book Fair: With Elena Medel and María Castrejón
Sunday Afternoon Stories
Nicolas d’Aujourd’hui: I know a story!
Leïla Slimani
Watch Us Dance
Feminism und Illustration:
Three Artists – Three Perspectives
Literary Walk
Russian Travellers in Basel
Isabel Allende
Violeta
Arno Camenisch
The World
Usama Al Shahmani
The Bird Doesn’t Doubt Where it is Flying To (Der Vogel zweifelt nicht am Ort, zu dem er fliegt)
CANCELED: Katerina Poladjan
Future Music (Zukunftsmusik)
Long Night of Austrian Literature
Alain Claude Sulzer
Double Life (Doppelleben)
Katja Petrowskaja
The Photo Looked at Me
Theaterplatz Festival
Khaled Khalifa
No One Prayed Over Their Graves
Damon Galgut
The Promise
Book vernissage: Friederike Kretzen
Picture of the Picture of the Big Moon
Dorothea Zwirner
Thea Sternheim – Chronicler of Modernity