Archive
The events before August 2022 can be found at the following link (German only).
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