Nino Haratischwili

Internationally acclaimed bestselling author and theater maker Nino Haratischwili presents poetic and powerful speeches and essays on freedom, values, and democracy in times of threat.

Nino Haratischwili is not only one of the most important literary voices in German-language literature, she is also one of the most important political German-language authors of our time. Our times are currently marked by political aggression and a social climate of hatred, upheaval, and concrete threats of war. What happened in Ukraine must not be allowed to happen again - in Georgia, this fear has become a daily reality. This is one of the themes addressed in EUROPA, WACH AUF! (Europe, wake up!), an emotional and personal, explosive and political work written in the unmistakably poetic and powerful language that has become Nino Haratischwili's trademark.

On the first evening of the festival, Nino Haratischwili will present her book and her views in a reading followed by a discussion. Words as resistance!