Program

The full program of the Berlin Book Fair of Russian-Language Literature, April 3–6, 2025

April 5, 15:00 – 17:00 Autograph session and communication at the stand. Artists of the almanac of protest art ARTISTS AGAINST the KREMLIN vol.1 Liza Pushkina and Nadya Ukhanova

Liza Pushkina is an artist from Moscow. In 2019, she entered the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov

April 5, 15:00 – 17:00 Autograph session and communication at the stand. Artists of the almanac of protest art ARTISTS AGAINST the KREMLIN vol.1 Liza Pushkina and Nadya Ukhanova more details»

April 4, 10:30 – 11:15 Presentation of Irina Novik’s book “I am a deserter”, Freedom Letters publishing house (with the participation of one of the book’s heroes)

Moderator of the meeting – Maria Makeeva. Journalist Irina Novik will present her first book “I am a deserter”. This is a collection of absolutely real stories

April 4, 10:30 – 11:15 Presentation of Irina Novik’s book “I am a deserter”, Freedom Letters publishing house (with the participation of one of the book’s heroes) more details»

April 6, 15:10 – 15:55 How to write about evil after February 24, 2022. Meduza publishing house authors Zhenya Berezhnaya (Ukraine) and Sergey Lebedev (Russia) talk about their novels The White Lady and (Not) About War

In 2023, writers Sergei Lebedev and Zhenya Berezhnaya each finished working on their manuscript. Lebedev's "White Lady" is a novel

April 6, 15:10 – 15:55 How to write about evil after February 24, 2022. Meduza publishing house authors Zhenya Berezhnaya (Ukraine) and Sergey Lebedev (Russia) talk about their novels The White Lady and (Not) About War more details»

April 5, 17:00 – 18:30 Open pitching of books. Pain points: how to write about modern Russia so that it is read all over the world. With simultaneous translation into Russian and German

The StraightForward Foundation presents a public pitching of books in Russian for an international audience. How is the Kremlin creating a global network to combat the LGBT community?

April 5, 17:00 – 18:30 Open pitching of books. Pain points: how to write about modern Russia so that it is read all over the world. With simultaneous translation into Russian and German more details»

April 4, 19:10 – 19:55 Premiere of the new release from Überbau publishing house: a collection of essays by Aldous Huxley, “What shall we do about it?”

Translator and publisher Dmitry Simanovsky and artist Sasha Skochilenko will present a new release from Überbau publishing house: a collection of essays by Aldous Huxley, “What Are We to Do with

April 4, 19:10 – 19:55 Premiere of the new release from Überbau publishing house: a collection of essays by Aldous Huxley, “What shall we do about it?” more details»

April 4, 17:10 – 17:55 Presentation of a new book by Stein Publishing. Translation of Sebastian Haffner’s book “Der Teufelspakt. Die deutsch-russischen Beziehungen vom Ersten zum Zweiten Weltkrieg”

Sebastian Hafner (1907-1999) was one of the most important German publicists of the post-war period. His works, such as The Story of a German and

April 4, 17:10 – 17:55 Presentation of a new book by Stein Publishing. Translation of Sebastian Haffner’s book “Der Teufelspakt. Die deutsch-russischen Beziehungen vom Ersten zum Zweiten Weltkrieg” more details»

April 4, 12:30 -13:45 Open meeting with the editors-in-chief of the magazines "Berlin. Berega", "Vestnik RKhD", "Vozdukh", "Novy Ierusalimsky Zhurnal", "Pyataya Volna", "Russkoe Slovo"

Nowadays literary magazines are read by those who are genuinely interested in the contemporary living literary process. And the most important part of the editorial work

April 4, 12:30 -13:45 Open meeting with the editors-in-chief of the magazines "Berlin. Berega", "Vestnik RKhD", "Vozdukh", "Novy Ierusalimsky Zhurnal", "Pyataya Volna", "Russkoe Slovo" more details»

April 3, 18.00-21.00 Poems out of oneself: a big poetry evening / Opening of the Berlin Book Fair / together with the media slova_vne_sedya and the OVD-info project* [*the bulk of the proceeds will be transferred to OVD-info]

Three years of terrible war became a time of poetry. Poetry often records the destruction in the world more accurately than prose or reportage.

April 3, 18.00-21.00 Poems out of oneself: a big poetry evening / Opening of the Berlin Book Fair / together with the media slova_vne_sedya and the OVD-info project* [*the bulk of the proceeds will be transferred to OVD-info] more details»

April 6, 18:00 – 18:45 Presentation of the book by Evgeny Feldman “Dreamers versus Cosmonauts. The Courage and Tragedy of the Anti-Putin Protest”. Publisher Babook.

The book's author, journalist and photo editor Evgeny Feldman, talks about his work as a photographer during events that, as time has shown, were turning points

April 6, 18:00 – 18:45 Presentation of the book by Evgeny Feldman “Dreamers versus Cosmonauts. The Courage and Tragedy of the Anti-Putin Protest”. Publisher Babook. more details»

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