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15 April 2025
Munich

ILfest 2025 – Festival of Italian Literature in Munich

IL<i>fest</i> 2025 – Festival of Italian Literature in Munich

From 9 to 11 May 2025, the seventh edition of ILFest – Italienisches Literaturfestival München will be held, the only festival dedicated to Italian literature in Germany. The festival is organised by Elisabetta Cavani of ItalLIBRI and the Italian Cultural Institute directed by Giulia Sagliardi, with the patronage of the Consulate General of Italy in Munich and the support of the Department of Culture of the city of Munich.

ILfest – Italian Literature Festival Munich will be held at the Neuhauser Trafo, Nymphenburger Str. 171 a, 80634 Munich, directly at the U-Bahn1 Rotkreuzplatz.

Programme

Friday 9 May

19.00 Opening

Francesca Melandri, Piedi freddi, Bompiani / Kalte Füße, Wagenbach

Saturday 10th May

11.00 workshop with Manlio Castagna, Con occhi nuovi. Integrare i film nella didattica

15.00-16.30 Meeting with Riccardo Cepach, LETS Museo della Letteratura di Trieste and Alessandro Melazzini, director /

Screening of the documentary Italo Svevo. Scrivere nascosto a Trieste, Alpenway

17.00 – Silvia Cinelli, L’elisir dei sogni. La saga della famiglia Campari, Rizzoli / Bittersüße Träume, Goldmann

17.00 Gian Marco Griffi, Le ferrovie del Messico, Laurana / Die Eisenbahnen Mexikos, Claassen – moved to Sunday 15.00

19.00 Stefano Nazzi, Canti di guerra. Conflitti, vendette, amori nella Milano degli anni Settanta, Mondadori

Programme for children and young people in the Stadtbibliothek Neuhausen

10.30 ILfest bambini – Weltkinder Vorlesen/Letture in Italian with Roberta Grasso, for 4-6 year olds

11.15 ILfest for children – Weltkinder Vorlesen/Readings in Italian with Roberta Grasso, for 6-8 year olds

16.00 ILfest per ragazziMeeting with Manlio Castagna

followed by

approx.17.30 ILfest per giovani prize

 

Sunday 11th May

11.30 -13.00 In the translators’ workshop – translation workshop with German literary translators and audience participation

14.30 – LETS Letteratura Trieste

15.00 Meeting with Marco Balzano – cancelled

15.00 Gian Marco Griffi, Le ferrovie del Messico, Laurana / Die Eisenbahnen Mexikos, Claassen

17.00 Federica Manzon, Alma, Feltrinelli, Premio Campiello 2024

The events are in Italian with German translation, except for the programme for children and young adults.

The detailed programme is on the festival website www.ilfest.de, tickets are on sale through the website and at the box office.

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