Program
Viewers can witness multiple monologues and specials directly one after another and have fantastical experiences in a space from another time – we recommend one of the limited day tickets for your live visit.
Selected evenings will also be broadcast via a live stream – with special surprises in between events.
The program schedule of the entire festival is available for download here:
Monologue Festival 2021 – Program
21 Oct
Dietmar Darth says: Science Fiction proclaims an attitude toward a Werden, Könnte, Anders. For the start of the festival, the author, journalist and leftist pioneer speaks on the art of the future and the collective principle in world building.
Among other things, the potential for societal change within science fiction lies in the fact that it is about stuff that does not exist. Science-Fiction is not interested in the kinship we can experience in the popular representation of BEING. In fact it is about the idea of something, the pleasure of invention and the exploration of the invention. The story is not only about how the future is, but also why this “how“ has happened and what this “how” looks like in detail.
Dietmar Darth has inspired more than one Monologfestival with his complex storylines in novels, essays and fantastical nonfiction books. Now we’ve invited him to speak at a monologue position and build the bridge from the I to the We.
Free admission. Registration via [email protected]
Dietmar Dath is an author, journalist and translator. He has published multiple novels and is “the only relevant Science-Fiction author in contemporary German literature.” (DIE ZEIT) Some of his most recent works are an in-depth examination of the Sci-Fi genre – “Niegeschichte” and a series of conversations he co-wrote with Sibylle Berg. “Gentzen oder: Betrunken aufräumen”, a book about the brilliant German logician Gerhard Gentzen is nominated for Deutscher Buchpreis 2021. From 1998 to 2001 he was editor-in-chief at “Spex”, a magazine on pop culture based in Cologne. From August 2001 to late 2007 and starting again in 2011 he was an editor at the feuilleton of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung with a focus on science culture, electronic aspects of life, Science-Fiction and related topics.
With and by Dietmar Dath
22 Oct
23 Oct
24 Oct
27 Oct
28 Oct
29 Oct
30 Oct
Schönheit und Schrecken (lass dir alles geschehen)
31 Oct
