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14.May 2025 – 18.May 2025

The Performative Book Fair 2025

The Performative Book Fair is coming back! From May 14 to 18, 2025, performance meets literature to create a networking space for subversive literary practice. To ensure that these five days remain comfortable instead of triggering the usual book fair stress, the program will be deliberately equalized: From January to April, you can look forward to a reading series as part of the Performative Book Fair, where we invite authors to read from their texts and talk to you about them. With Tarek Shukrallah, Raphaëlle Red, Luca Mael Milsch, Hengameh Yaghoobifarah and many more! Stay tuned!

We recommend that anyone who wants to protect themselves and others from infection with COVID-19 during the event wear an FFP2 mask.

Reading / Discussion / Talk

Tarek Shukrallah

Photo collage of a young, smiling man with a moustache and short dark hair. Next to it is a book cover with the title ‘Not the First - Movement Stories of Queers of Colour in Germany’.

»Nicht die Ersten – Bewegungsgeschichten von Queers of Color in Deutschland«

23.01.2025

Reading / Discussion / Talk

Raphaëlle Red

A blurred photo of a young black woman with a dark afro and purple T-shirt against a green background. She is looking sideways into the camera.

Adikou

04.02.2025

Reading / Discussion / Talk

Luca Mael Milsch

A young white person with short, dyed blonde hair is wearing a purple jacket and leaning against a window.

»Sieben Sekunden Luft«

21.02.2025

Reading / Discussion / Talk

Hengameh Yaghoobifarah

A person with short dark hair, blond eyebrows and tattoos on their arms is lying on the side of a blue sofa with a bored look on their face, supporting their head with one hand.

Schwindel

15.04.2025

Supported by Kulturstiftung des Bundes.