Event

Literature in Exile – Exile in Literature?

Monday, September 15, 2025, 9:00 – 10:00 p, Dokumentationszentrum Flucht, Vertreibung, Versöhnung
Porträts von zwei Autorinnen und zwei Autoren, in der Mitte ist das Logo vom Internationalen Literaturfestival Berlin.
© internationales literaturfestival berlin, PWS e.V., Foto: o.l. Claude Truong-Ngoc, o.r. Neda Rajabi, u.l. Andrzej Walkusz, u.r. Christoph Mukherjee

What is "exile literature"? Is it literature that explores the theme of exile or literature written in exile? Can literature even be summarized under the term "exile"? And who actually defines what exile is?
Journalist Can Dündar and filmmaker Irene Langemann join author Uwe Wittstock to discuss historical and contemporary perspectives on exile in the literary world, and their effects on the literary sphere as well as society in which they take place.

The event will be held in German and Englisch with simultaneous interpretation.

 

PROGRAMME

Talk with Can Dündar, Irene Langemann, Uwe Wittstock

Moderator: Shila Behjat

Simultaneous translation by Lilian Astrid Geese and Silvia Schreiber

 

FURTHER INFORMATION

Doors Open: 8.45 p.m.

Language: German and English with simultaneous translation

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An event as part of the event series "Worte in Bewegung" in cooperation with the 25. international literature festival in Berlin (Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin).

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