Netherlands & Flanders - Guest of honour at Leipzig Book Fair 2024
„Alles außer flach!“ ["Anything but flat!"]
"Anything but flat!" is the motto as the Netherlands and Flanders gear up for their role as host country of Leipzig Book Fair 2024. Indeed, the authors and artists from the "low countries" will truly be scaling new literary heights. Together with their German colleagues and Leipzig Book Fair visitors, they plan to discuss topics such as the climate crisis, overconsumption, the global refugee crisis and the war in Europe. They intend to take a look at the major questions of our time in a wide variety of formats. Alongside classic readings and lectures, literature will also be presented with music and visual installations. Visitors will be able to experience German-Dutch-Flemish conversations, letter exchanges and podcasts as well as performances on stages and around the city. All profoundly serious but also humorous, joyful and exuberant.
At www.gastlandleipzig24.de you will find further information as well as the full programme leading up to Leipzig Book Fair 2024.
Press contact
ARTEFAKT Kulturkonzepte
Celia Solf, Alexander Flöth & Elisabeth Friedrich
Marienburger Straße 16
10405 Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49 (0)30 440 10 720
Mobile: +49 (0)171 432 532 8
Host
Project Team Netherlands & Flanders – Guest of honour at Leipzig Book Fair 2024
Dutch Foundation for Literature, Amsterdam
Flanders Literature, Antwerp
www.gastlandleipzig24.de
Instagram:
@gastlandleipzig24
Curators
Bettina Baltschev
info@bettinabaltschev.de
Margot Dijkgraaf
info@margotdijkgraaf.nl
Coordination
Mireille Berman, Project Coordinator
Dutch Foundation for Literature, Amsterdam
m.berman@letterenfonds.nl
Yannick Geens, Project Manager
Flanders Literature, Antwerp
yannick@flandersliterature.be
Diego Rodriguez, Project Manager
Flanders Literature, Antwerpe
diego@flandersliterature.be
Jan Steinz, Project Manager
Dutch Foundation for Literature, Amsterdam
j.steinz@letterenfonds.nl
Kindly supported by
the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and the representation of Flanders in Berlin