Reading List # 78
An entirely subjective list of things happening in Berlin
February 25
Julia Friese “delulu”
Book launch moderated by Lara Sielmann
Her life ends abruptly on the very day that Res is supposed to interview her idol Frances Scott, the greatest pop artist of her time. Res' life passes before her eyes like a movie. It is a journey into the subconscious of Western popular culture. This is where Res finally meets Frances. In lofts and restaurants, at tennis games and big gigs, the final glow of the dream of life at the end of history can be experienced: We can become anything. And get everything. Peace. Fun. All toys are us. But neither Res, who describes the dream, nor Frances, who sells the dream, determine its rules ...
Julia Friese was born in Hagen in 1985. She lives in Berlin, works as a writer and cultural journalist and publishes in literary magazines and anthologies. Her much-discussed debut “MTTR” (2022) was nominated for the Clemens Brentano Prize.
(DE)
8 pm | Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus, Chausseestraße 125
February 28
Surplus Magazin-Launch
Surplus is a new business magazine that focuses on the interests of the vast majority, not the richest 1 percent. To this end, Surplus brings together the world's leading economic thinkers, publishing daily texts, weekly video and podcast formats and a bi-monthly digital and printed magazine.
(DE)
8 pm | Heimathafen Neukölln, Karl-Marx-Straße 141, 12043 Berlin
February 28
Delfi Magazin Release: Spiel
If play defines people, who defines play? To mark the publication of its fourth issue, Delfi, the magazine for new literature, invites three authors to talk about the current issue's theme of “play”. It's about literary play with reality, mind games in fiction and the potential of playful writing.
Claudia Rankine, Nino Haratischwili and Raphaëlle Red will be reading, with Fatma Aydemir, co-editor of Delfi, leading the evening.
(DE)
8 pm | Volksbühne, Linienstraße 227
March 1
Unsettling: Heimat, Unheimlichkeit und Rückkehr
Where does the uncanny live in the museum? What is hidden behind masks? Authors Ralph Tharayil and Ido Nahari explore these questions in a performative work that emerged from their engagement with the collection and exhibition spaces of MARKK in Hamburg.
MARKK, Hamburg's former Museum of Ethnology, has been in a process examining the colonial legacy of its own holdings since 2017. In the first part of the series “Unsettling - Heimat, Unheimlichkeit und Rückkehr”, Nahari and Tharayil will lead an audio lecture through the corridors, hidden staircases, and the old library of the MARKK.
The second part of the series with Literaturhaus Neukölln follows the undercurrents of uncanny along the terms settling/unsettling in a lecture at Salon am Moritzplatz.
(EN/DE)
7.30 pm | Salon am Moritzplatz, Oranienstraße 58