At last year’s »Long Night of Reading«, amnesty international invited prominent citizens of Karlsruhe, actors from the Badisches Staatstheater, and other interested guests to speak out against racism. This year the readers are supporting human rights.
 
The event thus centers around a focal issue present in many forms throughout the duration of the GLOBALE – starting with Tribunal (June 19–21, 2015), a trial of the crimes against humanity that took place in the twentieth century, and continuing with the Writers for Freedom reading series and various film screenings, right through to the official naming of the ZKM_Forecourt as the »Square of Human Rights« – a place that, through its vicinity to the ZKM and the Office of the German Attorney General, unites art, culture, and justice; while also granting the citizens of Karlsruhe another public space specially devoted to fundamental and other human rights – supplementing the Square of Fundamental Rights,  dedicated in 2005.

Guests at the Long Night of Reading can look forward not only to an evening of literature, but also – like last year – to multi-faceted musical accompaniment.

Program

8 pm	Peter Weibel (ZKM) and Catherine Devaux (Amnesty International)	Welcome
8:10 pm	Peter Weibel CEO ZKM	G. F. Lessing: »Nathan der Weise«
8:20 pm	Maximilian Grünewald Badisches Staatstheater	Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: »Blutiges Spanien«
8:30 pm	Elena Tscheuschner	Fjodor Dostojewski: »Arme Leute«
8:35 pm	Claus Temps Head of the Cultural Office of the City of Karlsruhe	Bertolt Brecht: »Svendborger Gedichte«
8:45 pm	Dr. med. Thomas Thürauf Chief doctor of the Clinic for Cardiology St. Rochus Kliniken Bad Schonborn	Texts by Albert Schweitzer
8:55 Uhr	Aliz Müller Head of the Anti-Discrimination Unit at the Human Rights Center Karlsruhe	Poems by Urs Fiechtner & Victoria B. Robinson
9 pm	Dr. Martina Hofmann Project manager of the series »Writers for Freedom« (ZKM)	Texts by Raif Badawi
9:10 Uhr	Nandita Kumar Artist of the exhibition »Exo-Evolution«	Poems and quotations by Arunhati Roy
9:15 pm	Jagoda Szmytka Guest artist at the ZKM | Institute for Music and Acoustics	Wislawa Szymborska: »Hunger Camp At Jaslo«
9:20 pm	Dr. Franz Littmann Literarische Gesellschaft Karlsruhe [Literary Society]	J. P. Hebel: »Die Juden«
	Pause
210 pm	Heinz Fenrich Former mayor	Poems by Liao Yiwu, Shu Ting and Selam Kidane
10:10 pm	Gregory Darcy Director ad choreographer	Heinrich Heine: »Die Loreley«
10:15 pm	Renate Schweizer Artist	J. W. Goethe: »Märchen«
10:25 pm	Sascha Tuxhorn Badisches Staatstheater	Giorgio Agamben: »Homo sacer«
10:35 pm	Dr. Thomas Schalla Dean of the Evangelical Church Karlsruhe	Navid Kermanis: Thank you speech for the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
10:45 pm	Christiane Riedel Managing director ZKM	Vietnamese poem
10:50 pm	Dr. Abier Bushnaq Amnesty International	Texts by Ahmed Marzouki and Abdelwahhab Azzawi

Organization / Institution

Amnesty International Karlsruhe