Archive

Here you can find all past events of the Zurich Literature Festival

2024

08.07.2024
Saša Stanišić
What would you do differently today?
09.07.2024
Miriam Meckel, Léa Steinacker, Barbara Bleisch
How is artificial intelligence changing our world?
10.07.2024
Zadie Smith
What can we ever know about others?
11.07.2024
Connie Palmen
What is the secret of successful women?
12.07.2024
Helen Macdonald
What does nature mean to us - and what do we mean to it?
13.07.2024
Hua Hsu
How can we stay true to ourselves?
14.07.2024
Words on Stage
The big spoken word finale with Olivia El Sayed, Dominik Muheim, Leila Ladari, Michael Elsener and Häberli Oggier.
12.07.2024
Sigrid Nunez
How do we get through times of crisis?

2023

10.07.2023
Bernardine Evaristo
Is there a right life in the wrong one?
11.07.2023
Robert Seethaler
The great longing for a change
12.07.2023
Geetanjali Shree
Being a woman, Freedom and Self-Determination in a Patriarchal World
13.07.2023
Masculinities today
Book premiere, reading and debate with Sascha Rijkeboer, Peter Schneider, Michael Fehr, Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç, Donat Blum, Valentin Moritz, Franziska Schutzbach
14.07.2023
Deborah Levy
In search of the self
15.07.2023
David Mitchell
Can we change the world in turbulent times, or does the world change us?
16.07.2023
Words on Stage
The big spoken word finale with Ulrike Haidacher, Cenk Korkmaz, Julia Steiner, Marco Gurtner, Tommy Vercetti & Dezmond Dez and Pablo Vögtli

2022

11.07.2022
Marlon James
Fantastic, brutal, hardcore - a tremendous opening night with the Jamaican Booker Prize winner and Figurehead of queer literature
11.07.2022
Zeal & Ardor
Fantastic, brutal, hardcore - a musical ride from hell with the currently internationally most successful Swiss band
12.07.2022
Tsitsi Dangarembga
Stand up and move on - with the current Peace Prize winner from Zimbabwe
12.07.2022
Danitsa
Stand up and move on - with the Swiss Hiphop/Soul queen and Swiss Music Award Winner
13.07.2022
Elvira Sastre
Against oblivion - with the pop star of the Spanish literary scene
13.07.2022
Mercee
Against oblivion - with R'n'B at its best
14.07.2022
David Grossman
Love in Times of War – with the Israeli Booker Prize winner.
14.07.2022
IOIC Night Session: «The New Babylon»
Love in times of war - with a new live scoring of the Soviet silent film
15.07.2022
Ece Temelkuran
Together for a better world - from the Turkish star author
16.07.2022
Wolf Haas
Well, something's happened again - terrific fun with tons of 'garbage' and a knee in tub 4.
17.07.2022
Words on Stage
The grand Spoken word finale, feat. Reeto von Gunten, Jule Weber (D), Christoph Simon, Fine Degen, Marco Gurtner

2021

12.07.2021
Christoph Ransmayr
Family history
12.07.2021
Trummer
Family history
13.07.2021
Leïla Slimani
Dancing on the edge
13.07.2021
Nina Kunz
Dancing on the edge
13.07.2021
KT Gorique
Dancing on the edge
14.07.2021
Carolin Emcke
The mirror of everyday life
14.07.2021
Manuel Stahlberger and Bit-Tuner
The mirror of everyday life
15.07.2021
Arnon Grünberg
Living, Loving, Laughing
15.07.2021
IOIC Night Session: «Mysteries of a Barbershop»
Living, Loving, Laughing
16.07.2021
Margarete Stokowski und Alice Hasters
Gender, racism & systemic inequality
17.07.2021
Pedro Lenz, Jonas Lüscher, Simone Lappert
La suisse n'existe pas
18.07.2021
Words on Stage
Best of Spoken Word feat. Gülsha Adilji, Ágota Dimén, Guy Krneta, Tanja Kummer, Rebekka Lindauer, Christoph Simon
21.09.2021
Words on Stage
Best of Spoken Word feat. Uta Köbernick, Manuel Stahlberger, Kilian Ziegler, 9 Volt Nelly
24.10.2021
Words on Stage
Best of Spoken Word feat. Lisa Christ, Olivia El Sayed, Stefanie Grob, Etrit Hasler, Simon Chen
31.10.2021
Wladimir Kaminer
The Waveriders

2020

2019

08.07.2019
Deborah Feldman
Fanaticism and freedom
09.07.2019
Mia Couto
Beyond Black and White
10.07.2019
Terézia Mora und Lukas Bärfuss
What can we still expect from literature?
11.07.2019
Judith Schalansky
Missing, lost, forgotten things
11.07.2019
IOIC Night Session: «White Shadows in the South Seas»
Missing, lost, forgotten things
12.07.2019
Julian Barnes
From the love of life to the passing of love
13.07.2019
Roxane Gay
Confessions of a bad feminist
14.07.2019
Words on Stage
Best of Spoken Word feat. Matto Kämpf, Lara Stoll, Simon Chen, Helene Bockhorst, Interrobang

2018

02.07.2018
John Banville
About love, art and failure
03.07.2018
Sofi Oksanen
Hair-raising stories from the far north
04.07.2018
Rebecca Solnit
When men know everything better
04.07.2018
IOIC Night Session: «The Smiling Madame Beudet»
When men know everything better
05.07.2018
Clemens J. Setz
Artificial intelligence and its consequences
05.07.2018
200 years of Frankenstein
Artificial intelligence and its consequences
06.07.2018
Irvine Welsh
Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family, Choose a fucking big television Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers.
07.07.2018
Carolin Emcke and Teju Cole
Looking back to the present
08.07.2018
Words on Stage
Best of Spoken Word feat. Renato Kaiser, Patti Basler, Knackboul, Lisa Christ, Jens Nielsen

2017

03.07.2017
Junot Díaz
Curse and blessing
04.07.2017
John M. Coetzee
Animal Lives Matter
05.07.2017
Nora Bossong
What you always wanted to know about sex
05.07.2017
IOIC Night Session: «Sex movies»
What you always wanted to know about sex
06.07.2017
Anthony McCarten
Light and darkness
06.07.2017
Anna Aaron
Light and darkness
07.07.2017
Judith Hermann
Lightness with depth
07.07.2017
Frank Spilker
Lightness with depth
08.07.2017
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
Brave New Voices
08.07.2017
Jozia
Brave New Voices
09.07.2017
Words on Stage
Best of Performance Poetry feat. Jochen Distelmeyer, Jurczok 1001, Amina Abdulkadir, Ariane von Graffenried, Patti Basler

2016

11.07.2016
Peter Sloterdijk
Philosophy of lust
12.07.2016
Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
No escape from refugees
12.07.2016
Shumona Sinha
No escape from refugees
13.07.2016
Schorsch Kamerun
Pop, punk and animals
13.07.2016
Judith Holofernes
Pop, punk and animals
14.07.2016
Nell Zink
Lots of sex, both good and bad
14.07.2016
Ralf König
Lots of sex, both good and bad
15.07.2016
Margriet de Moor
Why had he done it?
16.07.2016
David Mitchell
After death is before death
17.07.2016
«Dilettantes and geniuses»
Clear the stage for the new generation
08.07.2016
Oh, how beautiful Panama is
An exhibition within an exhibition

2015

06.07.2015
John Cleese
And now for something completely different …
07.07.2015
Ruth Schweikert
The past is now
07.07.2015
«The Doors and Dostoevsky»
The past is now
08.07.2015
Xiaolu Guo
We are China
09.07.2015
Viktor Yerofeyev and Mikhail Shishkin
To See Moscow and Die
09.07.2015
IOIC Night Session: «Happiness»
To See Moscow and Die
10.07.2015
Sven Regener
Kafka reloaded
11.07.2015
Wladimir Kaminer
Eden on earth
12.07.2015
«Dilettantes and geniuses»
Clear the stage for the new generation
18.07.2015
Jozia
Supporting Programm
06.07.2015
«Horoscope of Hypermonsters»
Supporting program
06.07.2015
«Here is A Brighter Garden»
Supporting program
07.07.2015
«Liar's game»
Supporting program
07.07.2015
«A Hunger Artist»
Supporting program
07.07.2015
«Why the circus director shot the pony»
Supporting program

2014

14.07.2014
Marlene Streeruwitz
The dark side of love
15.07.2014
Gerhard Polt
Absurd as life
16.07.2014
Güzin Kar
Paths to happiness
16.07.2014
IOIC Night Session: «I Don't Want to Be a Man»
Paths to happiness
17.07.2014
Ben Moore
Science & Fiction
17.07.2014
«First contact»
Science & Fiction
18.07.2014
Teju Cole
Poetry of everyday life
19.07.2014
Peter Wawerzinek
Intoxication and excess
19.07.2014
IOIC Night Session: «The Mystery of the Leaping Fish»
Intoxication and excess
20.07.2014
Tino Hanekamp
Fail in style
20.07.2014
Michael Stauffer
Fail in style
14.07.2014
«Little Pharmacy of Love»
Supporting program
18.07.2014
«Fairy Trees»
Supporting program
13.07.2014
«Butterflies»
Supporting program
18.07.2014
«Watch out for literature!»
Supporting program
14.07.2014
«Radio in the park»
Supporting program

2013

08.07.2013
Olga Grjasnowa and Dorothee Elmiger
Acclaimed debut novels
09.07.2013
Wilhelm Genazino
Idylls in the semi-nature
10.07.2013
Gerhard Meister and Anna Trauffer
Get out of the uterus
11.07.2013
"My neighbor, the artist, the flowers and the revolutionary"
Probably the weirdest Swiss debut novel of all times
12.07.2013
Roger Willemsen
Me of all people! Roger Willemsen's travel narratives.
13.07.2014
Harry Rowohlt
Harry Rowohlt will read and tell stories
14.07.2013
Gerhard Rühm and Friedrich Achleitner
The legendary Vienna group
08.07.2013
«Génération»
Supporting program
08.07.2013
«Fairy Trees»
Rahmenprogramm
08.07.2013
«The search for the magic plants»
Rahmenprogramm
08.07.2013
«Radio in the park»
Supporting program