urban literature project

Well-known German and international authors in the unusual ambience of a former Kreuzberg butchery in connection with exhibitions, installations by visual artists

Idea, Concept and Moderation: 
Sibylle Kraut-Eppich

Artistic Consultation: 
Ilona Albert, Gabi Stöhr, Wolfgang Schröm

Design/ Photography and Graphics: 
Wolfgang Schröm, Malte Stamm-Gadow, Stefan Kreysler

Salon-Team: 
Ilona Albert, Gabi Stöhr, Anna Repnik, Andrea Romminger,  Wolfgang Schröm

Best Boys: 
Robert Scheu, Jens Schwarz

Public Relations: 
Sibylle Kraut-Eppich, Gabi Stöhr

The project was partially funded by the Wrangelkiez District management and the Berlin Senate Department for Science, Research and Culture.

Events in 2002

Ulrich Peltzer:
Alle oder keiner (roman, Ammann 1999, rowohlt 2002)
Photography and Interviews by
Andrea Krauß and Ulf Imwiehe

Stefan Kreysler, Annette Munck, Stefanie Neubeck, Barbara Winckler, Ute Schwagmeyer and Annette Beisenherz:
Visual Artists presenting their notes

Events in 2003

Emine Sevgi Özdamar:
“Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde” (Roman kiwi 2003, Kleist-Preis 2003)
Photographic Exhibition by Cornelia Brelowski “To be fragile does not mean to disappear”

Klaus Kordon:
“Krokodil im Nacken” (Roman, Beltz und Gelberg 2003, Jugendliteraturpreis 2003)
Video-Installation by Fabian Meyer and Ilona Albert “Plänterwald” 

Pieke Biermann, Berlin Kabbala and Herta und Doris
Slide-Installation by Fabian Meyer 

Norman Ohler: 
“Mitte” (Roman, Rowohlt Berlin 2001)
Installation by Moritz Wermelskirch, “Mitte”

Kathrin Röggla:
“Irres Wetter” (Erzählungen, Residenz Verlag 2000)
Drawings by Oliver Grajewski, “Berlin”

Andreas Steinhöfel:
“Der Mechanische Prinz” (Roman, Carlsen 2003)
Photography by Barbara Seyerlein, “Schulorte”

Irina Liebmann:
“Stille Mitte von Berlin” (Essay, Nicolai 2002)
with original photography from the author

Zehra Çirak:
“Leibesübungen” (Gedichte, kiwi) and other stories
Live-Drawings and Performance by Ercan Arslan

Petrus Akkordéon:
“Tauben in der Stadt”, unpublished novel
with drawings from the author

Events in 2004

Andreas Steinhöfel und Zoran Drvenkar: Weihnachtsgeschichten

Emine Sevgi Özdamar:
“Die Brücke vom goldenen Horn” und “Das Leben ist eine Karawanserei” (kiwi)

Katja Lange Müller: 
“Die Enten, die Frauen und die Wahrheit” (Erzählungen, kiwi)
Exhibition by Friederike Feldmann, “Ten Years After”

Bas Böttcher:
“Megaherz” (Roman, Rotbuch 2004)
Installation by Stefan Schuster, “Cut up I-III”

Kathrin Röggla:
“Wir schlafen nicht” (Roman, S.Fischer 2004)
Drawings and Comics by Oliver Grajewski, “Abend im Abendland”

Jürgen Ebertowski:
“Die Erben des Dionysos” (Roman, Rotbuch 2004)
and
Torsten Schulz:
“Boxhagener Platz” (Roman, Ullsstein 2004)

Marica Bodrožić, Roman Konzack and Selim Özdogan
Talk organized and moderated by students from Freie Universität Berlin

Kerstin Mlynkec:
“Drachentochter” (Roman, rowohlt 2004)
Photographies by the  author and
Video by Kerstin Mlykec and Charlotte Scheer
Music by Kathrin Wallrodt

Jenni Zylka:
“Beat Baby, beat” (rowohlt paperback 2004)
Photographies by Annette Rünzler, “Ein Bild mit Fehlern” 

André Kubiczek:
“Die Guten und die Bösen” (Roman Rowohlt Berlin 2003)
Exhibition by Friederike von Stackelberg, “berlin dialogues”

Katja Oskamp:
“Halbschwimmer” (Amman 2003)
Video-Installation by Fabian Meyer, “Flugschar”

Bas Böttcher and Sebastian Krämer:
“Spoken Word Performance”
Exhibition by  urban dialogues, “Archiv der Zeichen – Inventory of Berlin”

Events in 2005

Katja Lange-Müller und Kristof Magnusson
“Böse Schafe” (Roman, noch unveröffentlicht) and
“Zuhause” (Roman, Kunstmann 2005)
Exhibition by Stefanie Bürkle, “Berliner Tapete”

Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Thorsten Becker:
Unpublished Texts and
“Sieger nach Punkten” (Roman, rowohlt 2004)
Photography by Wolfgang Schröm, “Fotografie II”

Zehra Çirak and Jürgen Walter: 
“Kleine Altäre, Balken-Stab- und Brettfiguren” 
Spoken Word-Sculptures-Performance

Adania Shibli:
“Palästina, Durst und Nachricht vom Tod eines verdienstvollen Professors”
translated by Leila Chamaa
moderated by Hélène Adjouri

Bernd Lichtenberg: 
“Eine von vielen Möglichkeiten, dem Tiger ins Auge zu sehen” (Erzählungen, rowohlt 2005)
Exhibition by Jule Pfeiffer-Spiekermann, “Hand aufs Herz”

Chen Jianghong: 
Talk with the Illustrator and Autor in the framework of Internationalen Literaturfestival Berlin
moderated by Markus Osterwalder

Original Drawings from “Der Tigerprinz und Han Gan und das Wunderpferd” (Jugendliteraturpreis 2005)

Michael Wildenhain: 
“Russisch Brot” (Roman, Klett-Cotta 2005)
Photography by Wolfgang Schröm, “Fotografie I”

Antje Rávic Strubel:
“Tupolew 134” (Roman C.H. Beck 2004)

Ulrich Peltzer and Elif Shafak:
Talk in the framework of Westöstlicher Diwan
moderated by Alia Rayyan

Peter Schneider:
“Skylla” (Roman, rowohlt Berlin 2005)
Paintings by Birgit Bayer-Weiland

Lyrikbox:
Presentation at Lange Buchnacht Oranienstraße
Bas Böttcher and Sibylle Kraut-Eppich

Marica Bodrožić:
“Der Spieler der inneren Stunde” (Roman, Suhrkamp 2005)
Exhibition by Christine Sinner, “Verwandlungen”

 Shahriar Mandanipur and Albert Ostermaier:
Talk in the framework of Westöstlicher Diwan
moderated by Thomas Hartmann

Irina Liebmann:
“Die freien Frauen” (Berlin Verlag, 2004)
Exhibition by Hubert Dechant

Events in 2006

Arne Ross:
“Pauls Fall” (Roman, Schöffling & Co.)
Photographies by Wolfgang Schröm: “Schuhspuren”

Zehra Çirak, Ulrich Peltzer, Birol Ünel, Jürgen Ebertowski, Jale Arikan,Tayfun Bademsoy, Cem Özdemir and Ozcan Mutlu
Reading party on the occasion of the Nobel Prize ceremony for Orhan Pamuk at the Lido in Kreuzberg
Idea: Tomas Fitzel
Koncept und Realization by Sibylle Kraut-Eppich and Tomas Fitzel in collaboration with Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung Berlin, Radio multikulti and Quartiersmanagement Wrangelkiez

Lilian Brøgger
Talk with the author and illustrator
in the framework of International Literaturfestival Berlin

Judith Kuckart:
“Kaiserstraße” (Roman DuMont 2006)
and Adania Shibli:
“Durst” and other unpublished texts
Etchings by Carsten Borck

Quassim Haddad and Ilja Trojanow
Lesung und Gespräch im Rahmen des westöstlichen Diwan

Gamal al Ghitani and Ingo Schulze
Talk in the framework of Westöstlicher Diwan
moderated by Thomas Hartmann

Lyrikbox
Presentation at Poesiefestival 2006
Kulturbrauerei Berlin 
by Sibylle Kraut-Eppich 

Ambros Waibel:
“Leben Lums” (Erzählungen, Verbrecher Verlag 2006)

Sylvia Krupicka and Christiane Hasselmeier:
“Mondphasen” (Gedichte, Wiesenburgverlag)
Drawings by Petra Elsner

Lyrikbox
Presentation at Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien
by Bas Böttcher and Sibylle Kraut-Eppich