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Half the nation saw him for the first time in the film “Das Boot”. His big musical breakthrough came with the record “4630 Bochum”, which along with his 2002 release “Mensch” is still among the all-time to… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 09 October 2024
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Lichtburg Essen
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Actor, comedian and presenter Bernhard Hoëcker gained fame with the parody show “Switch” and as a member of the guessing team on the show “Genial daneben”. Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt, presenter, producer… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Wed. 09 October 2024
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Politics of fear, spirals of disappointment, people enraged. In her new book Explosive Modernity, sociologist Eva Illouz (“Why Love Hurts”, “Cold Intimacies”) observes our highly charged present day from th… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Eva Illouz – Explosive Modernity
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- Date: Wed. 09 October 2024
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Kammerspiele, Schauspielhaus Bochum
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- English
- German
From coal to cool – A region of tradition and innovation. | All-age event
Soccer has always been a driver of transformation and integration. People of any age, coming from anywhere (whether Germany or Türkiye, Gelsenkirchen or Dortmund), boys and girls, women and men – th… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 10 October 2024
- Time: 16:30
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Everybody wants to grow old, but nobody wants to be old. It’s an absurd contradiction that causes real suffering. How can we learn to accept ageing as best we can? Is it possible to grow old and live a… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 10 October 2024
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
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Live-Podcast
She is one of Germany’s most successful female authors. On her podcast, she interviews interesting people from society and the arts and culture communities. Today, Dora Heldt welcomes as her guest M… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event So Much More! Dora Heldt meets … Max Mutzke
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- Date: Thu. 10 October 2024
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Ebertbad
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Author Navid Kermani, recipient of The Peace Prize of the German Book Trade, is one of the most important intellectual voices of today and an astute observer of current debates. He also regularly… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 10 October 2024
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Villa Hügel
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From coal to cool – A region of tradition and innovation
We cannot simply wish democracy into existence, it must be learned. Psychologist and journalist Marina Weisband is convinced that democracy education must start at a very early age and our schools… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 10 October 2024
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Friday evening, on the 15th floor of a high-rise. Ava’s date with Robin is going perfectly. Until the doorbell rings and two unexpected guests appear: Delia and Sylvia. The three lovers meet for the f… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event “Deliciously bursting with life” Hengameh Yaghoobifarah – Vertigo
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- Date: Thu. 10 October 2024
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Kammerspiele, Schauspielhaus Bochum
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Author Theresia Enzensberger (“At Sea”) can’t sleep. She is not the only one: Sleep problems have become a mass phenomenon in our civilization. So what is a sleepless person to do? Write a vibrantly alert… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 10 October 2024
- Time: 19:30
- Location: KAUE Gelsenkirchen
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“They saw a baby goat on the side of the road, incessantly bleating and jumping around. He was so thrilled with himself that everyone had to laugh. For the first time in days, Karl saw a radiant s… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Arno Geiger celebrates what truly matters in life
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- Date: Thu. 10 October 2024
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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From coal to cool – A region of tradition and innovation
The Ruhr coal mining region was the source of Germany’s wealth after World War II. A place where people worked hard and suffered their fates. An environment that spawned a special type of character. I… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event With Esther Schweins, Dietmar Bär and Thomas Böhm
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- Date: Thu. 10 October 2024
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Sign language Available
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The glaciers are melting, certain jobs are disappearing, old orders are crumbling. Contemporary Western society is marked by forms of loss in manifold ways. And these losses are driving people onto… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Thu. 10 October 2024
- Time: 21:00
- Location: Ebertbad
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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All-Age-event
The EXIT games from publisher Kosmos bring the challenge of an escape room into your home: Solve the puzzles to escape from a remote cabin, an enchanted forest or a spooky laboratory. Everyone who… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 11 October 2024
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Die Veranstaltung findet in der Halle 12 statt und nicht, wie ursprünglich geplant, in der Halle 6.
They meet for the first time in a university lecture: Sixteen-year-old Oscar is highly gifted, comes from a wealthy family and has never taken the subway. Moni Kosinsky has three grandchildren and… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 11 October 2024
- Time: 17:30
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Sign language Available
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
Growing up as an only child in village in southern Germany in 1971, Roberta’s future is already laid out for her: She will take over her parents’ farm one day. In the countryside, nobody has any int… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 11 October 2024
- Time: 18:00
- Location: 9. Etage der Zentrale der Sparkasse Essen
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When are we supposed to properly ponder all the questions that life throws at us? As soon as you think you have come to a conclusion, the next question pops up. Cordula Stratmann attempts it anyway.… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 11 October 2024
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Sign language Available
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- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
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New From the Region
The “New From the Region” series showcases exciting new releases that shine a spotlight on the Ruhr region as a literary setting. In Ich komme nicht zurück [“I’m Not Coming Back”], Rasha Khayat tells the story … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Rasha Khayat – I’m not coming back
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- Date: Fri. 11 October 2024
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Literaturhaus Oberhausen / Gdanska Theater
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Which philosophy can still guide us today? On the trail of Theodor W. Adorno, Susan Sontag, Michel Foucault and Paul K. Feyerabend, Geister der Gegenwart [“Ghosts of the Present”] is a captivating sto… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 11 October 2024
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
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Emilia Roig stands for radical change. In her books (“Why We Matter”, “The End of Marriage”), she advocates for equality and reveals patterns of racist and patriarchal oppression. Her new essay Loving … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Fri. 11 October 2024
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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Author, podcaster and journalist Jagoda Marinić penned a tribute to Croatia, the homeland of her parents, in her 2013 novel Restaurant Dalmatia. This impressive novel about growing up in Germany … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Gentle radicalism – Jagoda Marinić on hope and change
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- Date: Fri. 11 October 2024
- Time: 20:30
- Location: Halle 6, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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“Soppa’s protagonists live and love in a staccato between jobs, unemployment and old-age poverty. Although they are exhausted, the writing in this debut is totally fresh. These women are ready for the… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 12 October 2024
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Halle 6, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Sign language Available
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- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
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Andrea Petković began playing tennis at the age of six. In 2011 and 2014, she made it onto the world’s top ten rankings. The US Open in 2022 turned out to be her final tournament. But Andrea Petković is … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Andrea Petković – It’s Time to Cut and Run
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- Date: Sat. 12 October 2024
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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*Thomas Mann a disciplined desk worker, Friedrich Nietzsche an ascetic thinker and Adalbert Stifter an indefatigable and prolific producer of texts? There is a widely held belief that writers are… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 12 October 2024
- Time: 19:00
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
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It’s 2022 in London and the Queen is dead! Durga, an international Indian/German screenwriter with a huge appetite for rebellion and hallucinations, runs past the mourners. Durga has been hired to do a… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Mithu Sanyal – Antichristie
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- Date: Sat. 12 October 2024
- Time: 19:30
- Location: Kammerspiele, Schauspielhaus Bochum
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From coal to cool - A region of tradition and innovation
With his debut “Dog, Jackal, Wolf,” he shot to stardom on the German literary scene: “This book is a sensation,” wrote Elke Heidenreich, while Ijoma Mangold declared: “Ten times better than any episode o… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Behzad Karim Khani – When We Were Swans
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- Date: Sat. 12 October 2024
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Halle 6, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
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In the early days of the Weimar Republic, war and political fanaticism seem far away for Hans, who is hopelessly in love with Hellmut. Years later, he starts an affair with unhappily married Magda to… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sat. 12 October 2024
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
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Legendary American crime fiction author Donna Leon lived for many years in the stunning city of Venice. Although she has now traded the canals for the calm of Switzerland, she still sets her books in… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 13 October 2024
- Time: 11:00
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
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- English
- German
For the past eight years, exceptional authors have been invited to the Ruhr area by the Brost Foundation to make the region their temporary home and discover it through writing. Until September,… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 13 October 2024
- Time: 11:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
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Once a celebrated film director, Jakob believes he has lost everything. His career is over and his last love affair was more than 10 years ago. His hair is gray, his body frail, his mind barren of… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 13 October 2024
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Salzlager, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
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“Her debut was the best seller of last year and the sequel ‘Gale Force 17’ once again casually hits us right in the heart. How does she do it?” wonders not only Süddeutsche Zeitung. Caroline Wahl is the new … This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Caroline Wahl – Gale Force 17
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- Date: Sun. 13 October 2024
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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This event takes place in two parts (each 45 minutes) with an intermission. First part: English | German, Second part: German
Russia’s war of aggression continues to dominate daily life for people in Ukraine – and in the Ukrainian arts scene. Many creatives are reacting to this threat through artistic expression. In con… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 13 October 2024
- Time: 17:00
- Location: Halle 6, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly (no WC) Available
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“He shows once again that he is not only great on screen but also as an author,” wrote the newspaper Abendzeitung when “The Boy Needs to Get Some Fresh Air” was published. Hape Kerkeling’s career as an author… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
More information about the event Give Me Some Time – Hape Kerkeling and his chronicle of events
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- Date: Sun. 13 October 2024
- Time: 18:00
- Location: Lichtburg Essen
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- Sign language Available
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Venedikt is a sociable drunk. He boozes his way through Moscow, wanting to finally see the Kremlin, but never making it any further than Kursky railway terminal. Jostled by the sober people around… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 13 October 2024
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Halle 12, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
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There are autobiographical traces throughout the works of Wolfgang Herrndorf. There is no picture that he painted, no cartoon he drew, no book he wrote where he did not process his experiences from… This text was shortened for this overview. Follow the more-link to read the full text.
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- Date: Sun. 13 October 2024
- Time: 20:00
- Location: Halle 5, UNESCO-Welterbe Zollverein
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair friendly + WC Available
- Induction loop can be installed if required Available
- Assistance dogs welcome Available
