Honeycomb of Words: Slovenia Guest of Honor 2023 at the Frankfurter Buchmesse
(slovensko spodaj)
2 min promo video:
We are less than a month away from the appearance of Slovenia as guest of honor at the
Frankfurt Book Fair, as this will be held from October 18 to 22. Slovenia will present itself at
the fair under the slogan HONEYCOMB OF WORDS.
At the press conference of the Ministry of Culture on September 30, 2023, they presented
the accompanying cultural program that is already taking place in Frankfurt, as well as the
book and professional program that will take place in the Slovene pavilion during the fair.
The program was presented by the Minister of Culture, dr. Asta Vrečko, director of the
Slovenian book agency, Katja Stergar and chief curator, dr. Miha Kovač. It is an exceptional
opportunity for Slovenia to show Germany and the world its cultural potential as a land of
outstanding literary creators. The project results from fruitful cooperation with cultural
public institutions from all over Slovenia.
The fair will be opened by the President of the Republic of Slovenia, dr. Nataša Pirc Musar
and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The opening ceremony will be attended by the minister
dr. Asta Vrečko in the company of German Minister Claudia Roth, and the president of the
Association of German Publishers and Booksellers Karin Schmidt-Friderichs, the mayor of
Frankfurt am Main Mike Josef. Slovene literary guests, philosopher Slavoj Žižek and poet
Miljana Cunta, will also be present.
Many literary events will take place at the fair: readings by Slovene authors, conversations
with them, a conversation between director Jürgen Boos and Aleksander Čeferin, and
lectures by philosophers Slavoj Žižek, Mladen Dolar and Alenka Zupančič at the Goethe
University. On the evening of October 19, there will be a concert by the band Laibach
Alamut.
Slovenia will have two stages in its pavilion, named after Srečko Kosovel and Maruša Krese.
Around 80 events will take place on both stages during the five days of the fair. The first day
and a half will be dedicated to the professional program, and the focus will be on small book
markets, the role of artificial intelligence in publishing and the increasingly widespread
reading in English in continental Europe. In addition to the Slovenian ones, more than 50
renowned experts worldwide will participate in these talks.
A series of events will be dedicated to translators on Friday, and on Saturday the Fabjan
Hafner Award will be given for the best translation of a Slovene work into German. During
the last two and a half days of the fair, a number of Slovene authors who have had their
books published by German, Swiss or Austrian publishers in the last two years will present
themselves in the pavilion.
The most translated Slovene authors (Jana Bauer, Helena Kraljič, Lila Prap, Manica Musil)
and authors (Evald Flisar, Drago Jančar, Aleš Šteger, Goran Vojnović, Slavoj Žižek) will also be
presented in the pavilion with special installations. Jože Plečnik and Boris Pahor will receive
special attention in the pavilion. An installation by Slovene artist Eva Petrič will also be part
of the Slovene pavilion.
The exhibition of Slovene illustration will also be held in the Struwwelpeter Museum, which
is located in the central Römer square in Frankfurt. During the fair, this square will be
colored Slovene, as it is also home to - or in its immediate vicinity - the Kunstgalerie Schirn,
where Maruša Sagadin exhibits, the Archaeological Museum, in which the National Museum
of Slovenia, in collaboration with many other Slovene museums, has prepared the exhibition
Tweets from the Past, Haus am dom, where there is an exhibition about Alma Karlin, and
the Museum of Romanticism, where an exhibition about Prešeren is open.
If you are near the fair or deciding on your first short trip as part of your mobility in
Slovenia, you are cordially invited to this year's Frankfurt Book Fair!
Have fun and practice Slovene with OLS!
For more information, visit the official website HERE.
Source: Slovenian book agency / Javna agencija za knjigo Republike Slovenije
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SATOVJE BESED
SLOVENIJA ČASTNA GOSTJA FRANKFURTSKEGA KNJIŽNEGA SEJMA 2023
Od nastopa Slovenije kot častne gostje na Frankfurtskem knjižnem sejmu nas loči še slab
mesec, saj je Frankfurtski sejem letos na sporedu od 18. do 22. oktobra. Na sejmu se bo
Slovenija predstavila pod sloganom Satovje besed.
Na tiskovni konferenci Ministrstva za kulturo, dne 30. 9. 2023, so predstavili spremljevalni
kulturni program, ki se v Frankfurtu že dogaja, pa tudi knjižni in strokovni program, ki se
bosta v slovenskem paviljonu odvijala v času sejma. Program so predstavili ministrica za
kulturo, dr. Asta Vrečko, direktorica Javne agencije za knjigo Republike Slovenije, Katja
Stergar in glavni kurator, dr. Miha Kovač. Gre za izjemno priložnost Slovenije, da se Nemčiji
in svetu pokaže svoj kulturni potencial kot dežela izjemnih literarnih ustvarjalcev. Projekt je
sad plodnega sodelovanja s kulturnimi javnimi zavodi iz celotne Slovenije.
Sejem bosta odprla predsednica Republike Slovenije dr. Nataša Pirc Musar in nemški kancler
Olaf Scholz. Slovesnosti ob odprtju se bo ministrica dr. Asta Vrečko udeležila v družbi
nemške ministrice Claudie Roth, prisotni pa bodo tudi predsednica Združenja nemških
založnikov in knjigotržcev Karin Schmidt-Friderichs, župan mesta Frankfurt na Majni Mike
Josef ter slovenska literarna gosta, filozof Slavoj Žižek in pesnica Miljana Cunta.
Na sejmu se bodo zvrstili številni literarni dogodki: branja slovenskih avtorjev, pogovori z
njimi, pogovor direktorja Jürgena Boosa z Aleksandrom Čeferinom in predavanja filozofov
Slavoja Žižka, Mladena Dolarja ter Alenke Zupančič na Goethejevi univerzi. 19. oktobra
zvečer bo na sporedu koncert skupine Laibach Alamut.
Slovenija bo imela v svojem paviljonu dva odra, poimenovana po Srečku Kosovelu in Maruši
Krese. Na obeh odrih se bo v petih dneh sejma odvilo okoli 80 dogodkov. Prva dna dneva in
pol bosta namenjena strokovnemu programu, fokus pa bo na malih knjižnih trgih, vlogi
umetne inteligence v založništvu ter vedno bolj razširjenemu branju v angleščini v celinski
Evropi. Poleg slovenskih bo na teh pogovorih sodelovalo več kot 50 priznanih strokovnjakov
z vsega sveta.
Prevajalcem bo posvečen sklop dogodkov v petek, v soboto pa bo podeljena nagrada
Fabjana Hafnerja, za najboljši prevod slovenskega dela v nemščino. V zadnjih dveh sejemskih
dnevih in pol se bodo v paviljonu predstavili številni slovenski knjižni ustvarjalci, ki so jim v
zadnjih dveh letih izšle knjige pri nemških, švicarskih ali avstrijskih založbah.
V paviljonu bomo s posebnimi instalacijami predstavili tudi najbolj prevajane slovenske
avtorice (Jana Bauer, Helena Kraljič, Lila Prap, Manica Musil) in avtorje (Evald Flisar, Drago
Jančar, Aleš Šteger, Goran Vojnović, Slavoj Žižek). Posebne pozornosti bosta v paviljonu
deležna Jože Plečnik in Boris Pahor. Del paviljona bo tudi instalacija slovenske likovne
umetnice Eve Petrič.
Razstava slovenske ilustracije bo tudi v muzeju Struwwelpeter, ki je na osrednem
frankfurtskem trgu Römer. Ta trg bo v času sejma slovensko obarvan, saj so na njem – ali v
njegovi neposredni bližini – tudi Kunstgalerie Schirn, kjer razstavlja Maruša Sagadin,
Arheološki muzej, v katerem je Narodni muzej Slovenije v sodelovanju s številnimi drugimi
slovenskimi muzeji pripravil razstavo Tviti iz preteklosti, Haus am dom, kjer je razstava o
Almi Karlin, ter Muzej romantike, v katerem je odprta razstava o Prešernu.
Če ste v bližini sejma ali se odločate za prvi kratek izlet v sklopu svoje mobilnosti v Sloveniji,
ste vljudno vabljeni na letošnji Frankfurtski knjižni sejem!
Za več informacij obiščite uradno spletno stran projekta TUKAJ.
Zabavajte se in vadite slovenščino z OLS!
Alenka, OLS Community Manager – Slovene
