September 1

No Man's Land Translation Lab

No "homework" and no advance planning required! Simply show up with your texts (either for publication or for fun) and we will discuss as many as can be accommodated (first come, first served). Excerpts to be discussed should total no more than 1-2 pages so that they can be read on the spot. Please bring sufficient copies (about 10) of both original and translation. Apart from the in-depth discussions, we'll reserve some time for people with "quickie" questions, i.e. on single words, expressions, etc.. If no texts are in the offing, the organizers will provide a problem text of their own and/or other material to get the discussion going. Even if you don't have a text to discuss, you are more than welcome to come and brainstorm, critique, kibitz or simply listen. We look forward to seeing you there and hearing your thoughts and suggestions! -Isabel Cole and Katy Derbyshire

Tuesday, September 1, 8 pm in Max & Moritz (Bibliothek, upper floor), Oranienstraße 162, X-berg, Berlin. www.no-mans-land.org

English Comedy Night

Our new season, with shows now twice a month takes off on the 1st September, and we are thrilled to present our special guest from London:Hattie Hayridge!! Apart from her numerous stand-up appearances on television and radio, she has received worldwide recognition for her part as HOLLY the computer in the hugely successful BBC comedy series, RED DWARF and most recently starred as Lizzie Gillespie in BBC 1's JONATHAN CREEK. Her television appearances include stand-up shows from FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE to SATURDAY LIVE, panel games from CELEBRITY SQUARES to HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU,plus documentaries including BACK TO BEDLAM with Jo Brand and recently the 'Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson'in the U.S. And as if that isn’t enough, we also have the amazing Evi and the Animal (perfect melt of explosive rock'n roll energy, anarchistic comedy und electric red-light erotic), plus fast and furious stand-up with Tamara Ingram ( Queen of comedy from California)! All very proudly presented by your host Kim Eustice (back Up Here from Down Under)

Tuesday September 1, 8.30 pm, Comedy Club Kookaburra, Schönhauser Allee 184, 10119 Berlin-Mitte, U2-Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz

September 2.

Lily Brett

Reads from her novel Chuzpe at the Jüdische Kulturtage Berlin see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lily_Brett

Wednesday September 2, 8 pm, Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Lindenstr. 9-14, Berlin-Kreuzberg www.juedische-kulturtage.org

September 3

Nadia Bolz-Weber

Something a bit different? Nadia Bolz-Weber reads from her book "Salvation on the Small Screen? 24 Hours of Christian Television" http://sarcasticlutheran.typepad.com/sarcastic_lutheran/

Thursday September 3, 7:30pm-9pm, EFG Berlin-Schöneberg; Hauptstr. 125; 10827 Berlin

September 4

Creative Writing Group Monthly Meeting

Read out your own texts for constructive discussion (fiction, verse, verse translations). Please bring 15 copies. Room charge: 3 euros. This month the 'one euro workshop' will be a script/screen-writing exercise, starting at 6 pm, also in the Buchhändlerkellar. Details on the web site: www.cwg-berlin.com

Friday August 7 (normally every 1st Friday of the month), 7 pm, Buchhändlerkeller, Carmerstrasse 1, 10623 Berlin (near Steinplatz).

September 8

Reading at East of Eden Bookshop

Featuring Gordon Carrega with a series of short readings interspersed with live music. There is no entry fee, but the hat is diligently passed...Gordon Carrega *1944, has published poems and prose in various American literary journals. His writing tends to appear whimsical, at times absurd, but the tales have a startling emotional impact.

Tuesday September 8, East of Eden Bookshop, 9pm, Schreinerstrasse 10, 10247 Berlin Friedrichshain, U-Bahnhof Samariterstrasse U5

Berlin Tales: Launch Event: Translating Berlin: die Literatur auf der Reise

A bi-lingual evening of readings with Torsten Schulz; Annett Gröschner; Rory MacLean; Yadé Kara and Lyn Marven. Further details and (free) tickets on: http://www.berlinstory.de/blog/index.php http://www.berlinstory.de/salon/

Tuesday September 8, 6:30 pm, The Berlin Story, Kaiserhöfe Unter den Linden 26

September 9-19

Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin

For a full programme, in English, of the events taking place, follow this link www.literaturfestival.com/news1_3_2_2014.html and click on ‘Explore this year’s programme here’. Many big names are involved, including US and UK authors and poets. The main festival website is at: www.literaturfestival.com and this link http://www.literaturfestival.com/index1_1_258.html takes you to a page promising that „The ilb 2009 is becoming interactive!" blimey! I think they mean twitter and all that. NB: Eve Lucas of the Exberliner does a run-down of the interesting appearances from an English language POV: http://exberliner.com/books/75/literary-love

September 11

Midnight poetry

3 in 1: enjoy the monthly english-german reading - this time starring natalia lincoln, moritz foerster & phillip thompson! lean back & discover our new location: the cosy café & art-room "alice gryphius" in friedrichshain. so see you there" free entry! check www.midnight-poetry.net

Friday September 11, 11 pm, Alice Gryphius, Gryphiusstrasse 10, 10245 berlin

September 12

International SLAM! Revue 2009

For the 8th time the international literature festival berlin (ilb) Presents the international SLAM!Revue. During the evening 12 young and renowned poets from all around the world, will compete, in all (well a lot of) imaginable languages. Paula Varjack is in it too. Presented by Martin Jankowski

Saturday September 12, 8 pm, Festsaal Kreuzberg, (Skalitzerstraße 130, Bln.-Kreuzberg, U-Bahn Kottbusser Tor), Entrance 15/10 €.

September 13

ETB: Playwrights Lab

With a play from Australian playwright Elise Hearst. For more information check out the etberlin.de website.

Sunday September 13, 8.30 pm, English Theatre Berlin, F40, Fidicinstrasse 40, 10965 Berlin (Kreuzberg) /U6 Platz der Luftbrücke, buses: M19 & 104

September 17

Did The US Betray Russia?

Bosch Public Policy Fellow Mary E. Sarotte, Professor of International Relations from the University of Southern California, draws on much new material from her forthcoming book, 1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe (Princeton University Press, 2009), for the opening lecture of the Fall 2009 semester. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall she recounts the promises and aspirations of the world powers from a time that changed the face of the world. American Academy

Thursday, Sept. 17, 7:00pm

September 21

A Conversation with Composer Philip Glass

The American Academy is honored to host one of America's greatest living American composers, Philip Glass, for an evening discussion with conductor and pianist Dennis Russell Davies." Email: mailbox@americanacademy.de (send them an email if you want to suscribe to their new newsletter – Fellows this autumn include Susan Howe and Nathan Englander)

Monday September 21, 7 pm, Am Sandwerder 17-19, D-14109 Berlin, Germany, Phone +49-(30) 8 04 83-0 Fax +49-(30) 8 04 83-111

September 22

US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia on Globalization and the Law

The Lloyd N. Cutler Distinguished Visitorship brings an eminent American legal figure to Berlin on an annual basis. Justice Scalia’s weeklong visitorship will include meetings with European Constitutional Court justices and with senior German constitutional scholars, a roundtable with policy experts and media representatives, as well as the Lloyd Cutler Lecture at the American Academy and a lecture at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.

Tuesday, Sept. 22, 7:00pm

Philip Glass and Chen Yi: Piano Works

Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa will perform works at Radialsystem V, Holzmarktstr. 33, Berlin. Limited seating available. Tickets: +49 - 30 - 288 785888

Tuesday, Sept. 22, 8:00pm

September 23

The German Elections: Not Enough Change

International Herald Tribune columnist and Germany maven John Vinocur presents some insights of his month in Berlin observing the German national election campaign as the Academy's David Rubenstein Distinguished Visitor in September 2009.

Wednesday, Sept. 23, 7:00 pm

September 25, 26, 30

ETB: Noel Coward’s "Fallen Angels"

Desperate Housewives in London - Julia and Jane, the fallen angels, are youngish married women, best friends and troubled by their 12 year itch (nowadays it is the seven-year itch but marriages lasted longer in those days). Bored with their husbands and eager to reclaim their lost youth in the shape of a young Frenchman – he had very little knowledge of English but certainly had skills in the wooing department! - who had an affair with both of them before marriage. He sends a postcard to both women saying he is coming to London. They work themselves up into a drunken state of excitement in anticipation of their long-lost lover’s return...More info: www.etberlin.de

Sept 25, 26, 30; 8 pm, English Theatre Berlin, F40, Fidicinstrasse 40, 10965 Berlin (Kreuzberg), U6 Platz der Luftbrücke, Buses: M19 & 104