Opening of the European Literature Days 2019
Host Robert Menasse (Vienna) in conversation with Doron Rabinovici (Wien)

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Writers: György Dragomán (Budaörs/HU), Iris Wolff (Freiburg/DE)
Moderator: Rainer Moritz (Hamburg)

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Writers: Ida Hegazi Høyer (Oslo), Annelies Verbeke (Ghent) 
Moderator: Rosie Goldsmith (London)

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Writers: Ghayath Almadoun (Stockholm), Priya Basil (Berlin)

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Walking tour through Stein an der Donau with Albert Hosp (Vienna), KV 487 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Severin Endelweber (viola), Gregor Reinberg (violin)

Introduction to the exhibition by Carola Dertnig (Vienna)
Writers: Marente de Moor (Amsterdam), Teresa Präauer (Vienna)

Moderator: Rainer Moritz (Hamburg)

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Writers: Rory MacLean (London), Clemens Setz (Vienna)

Moderator: Rosie Goldsmith (London)

On digital feasibility fantasies, the surrender of utopian thinking and their dissolution in literature
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Writers: Marc Elsberg (Vienna), Zoë Beck (Berlin)

Introduction and moderators: Beat Mazenauer (Lucerne) and Rüdiger Wischenbart (Vienna)



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Exhibition previews of the artists Teresa Margolles and Adrian Paci

Guided tours by curators Florian Steininger and Andreas Hoffer, both artists in attendance

Writers: Helena Janeczek (Rome), Julia von Lucadou (Biel/Bienne, New York, Cologne), Enis Maci (Leipzig)
 Moderator: Katja Gasser (Vienna)

Concert: Darkstone Brass – Martin Ptak (trombone), Martin Eberle (trumpet), Martin Ohrwalder (trumpet), Philip Yaeger (trombone), Erik Hainzl (tuba), Lukas König (drums)

Wine tasting with wines from the Weingut Stadt Krems


Reading and discussion with Francesca Melandri (Rome)

Moderator: Katja Gasser (Vienna)

Music: Simon Zöchbauer and the Koehne Quartet – Joanna Lewis (violin), Anne Harvey-Nagl (violin), Lena Fankhauser (viola), Melissa Coleman (cello)
Presentation of the Austrian Book Trade Honorary Award for Tolerance in Thought and Action to Francesca Melandri by HVB President Benedikt Föger.

Laudatio speech: Helena Janeczek

Keynote talk by Ariadne von Schirach (Berlin): Wilderness. Come into the Open, Friend, and Be Amazed
followed by Robert Menasse (Vienna) in conversation with Ariadne von Schirach
Live stream of Talk and Writer Q&A
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWpCbocfw6cDigv9ZUKVNDQ

Writers: Polly Clark (Helensburgh/Scotland) and Dan Richards (Bristol/GB)
Moderator: Rosie Goldsmith (London)

Live stream of Writer Q&A interactive
Moderator’s input via live streaming: Veronika Trubel (Vienna)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoPumbJXXKI

Writers: Fabio Andina (Lugano) and Miek Zwamborn (Isle of Mull, Scotland)
Moderator: Rosie Goldsmith (London)

Live stream of Writer Q&A interactive
Moderator’s input via live streaming: Veronika Trubel (Vienna)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYKza5Gia2o

Writers: Petina Gappah (Edinburgh), Gergely Péterfy (Budapest)
Moderator: Rosie Goldsmith (London)

Live stream of Writer Q&A interactive
Moderator’s input via live streaming: Veronika Trubel (Vienna)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8wI_PAY0iI

Reading
Writers: Olga Grjasnowa (Berlin), Michael Stavarič (Vienna)
Moderator: Veronika Trubel (Wien)
Followed by a talk by Günther Oberhollenzer about the exhibition Traces and Masks of Refugees (State Gallery of Lower Austria) and the artist Ramesch Daha shows the wall-art mural 06.04.1945 at Stein Prison wall.

Live stream Reading and virtual tour of the exhibition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX3zvvSoZjI

Writers Edo Popović (Zagreb), Matthias Politycki (Hamburg)
Moderator: Rüdiger Wischenbart (Wien)

Live stream of Writer Q&A interactive
Moderator’s input via live streaming: Veronika Trubel (Vienna)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEdbWmmBQbQ

Discussion on the keynote topic of the European Literature Days 2020 “More Wilderness!”
Input: Andreas Weber (Berlin): Indigenous thinking
Discussion with keynote speaker and author Ariadne von Schirach (Berlin)
Moderator: Rüdiger Wischenbart (Vienna)

Live stream of Writer Q&A interactive
Moderator’s input via live streaming: Veronika Trubel (Vienna)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqMS1hUF094

Writers: Peter Balko (Bratislava), Daniela Emminger (Vienna), Anna Ospelt (Vaduz), Filip Springer (Warsaw),
Moderator: Hans Koch (Cologne)

Live stream of Readings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ptwfH9sQeQ

Writer: Sjón (Reykjavík)
Reading: Johannes Silberschneider (Munich)
Concert: Ernst Molden and Ursula Strauss – Wüdnis
Moderator: Katja Gasser (Vienna)

Live stream of Reading and Concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhuaPxIRfHg

Reading and Writer Q&A with A.L. Kennedy (Scotland)
Laudatio: Sonja Zekri (Munich)
Moderator: Katja Gasser (Vienna)
Concert Mario Rom’s Interzone

Presentation of the Honorary Award of the Austrian Book Trade for Tolerance in Thought and Action to A.L. Kennedy by HVB President Benedikt Föger.

Live stream of Reading and Concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz-E4FDLmAI