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

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BEING HUMAN

Authors against Hate

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DANIEL SCHREIBER

Times of Loss

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CHRISTINA CLEMM

Opposing Misogyny

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THOMAS SPARR

“I Want to Go on Living, even after my Death”. The Biography of Anne Frank´s Diary

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES

Can we kiss frogs?

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KYIV – (KEEP-) WRITING

With Tanja Maljartschuk

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NECATI ÖZIRI

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Slam

FINAL BASLER U20-POETRY-SLAM-CHAMPIONSHIP 2024

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ISSUES OF OUR TIME – FRAGEN DER ZEIT: ZERUYA SHALEV

Not me

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES

When visitors arrive…

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FRAGEN DER ZEIT / ISSUES OF OUR TIME: LINKS ≠ WOKE. OR IS IT? THE LEFT TODAY

Susan Neiman & Patricia Purtschert

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TERÉZIA MORA

Muna or the half of life

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ALBERT DEBRUNNER (HRSG.)

Wladimir Sagal: "Above all heads, jewish heads"

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SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES

In winter, when darkness falls

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ZOLTÁN DANYI

Rose novel

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INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE

Theres Roth-Hunkeler & Laura Vogt

Geschichten Herbst 2023

SUNDAY MORNING STORIES:

THE SHORTEST DAY

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MATTO KÄMPF

Soup, Soap, Salvation

canceled

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SYLVIE SCHENK

Maman

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Talking about New Books II

Gianna Olinda Cadonau: Fire Lily

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CORNELIA KAZIS & BETTINA UGOLINI

The old gang

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TOM SEGEV

Jerusalem in a corner of Berlin: Autobiography

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CHRISTOPH KELLER

Flooding Africa

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DIATY DIALLO

Two seconds of burning air

Lukas Gloor & Judith Keller

Talking about New Books I

Lukas Gloor, Timbuktu & Judith Keller, Wild Manoeuvres

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100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TURKISH REPUBLIC

ÇIĞDEM AKYOL: THE DIVIDED REPUBLIC. TURKEY FROM ATATURK TO ERDOGAN

Rafik Schami

RAFIK SCHAMI

When you tell stories, the desert blossoms

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GUEST APPEARANCE OF THE WORTSTELLWERK

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Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry

Il n’y a pas d’arc-en-ciel au paradis

Geschichten Herbst 2023

SUNDAY AFTERNOON STORIES

WHAT´S COOKING IN THAT POT OVER THERE?

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JUDITH SCHALANSKY

10 Years of the Natural History Imprint (Naturkunden)

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LITERARY WALK

On the trail of Hermann Hesse in Basel

sold out

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A. L. KENNEDY

Alive in a merciful Country

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Sofa reading

Saskia Winkelmann: Höhenangst (fear of heights)

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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

Maria Marggraf Schabe 72 DPI

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

Marggraf

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

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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

Martina Kuoni

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

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