In collaboration with the Frankfurter Buchmesse
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The Frankfurt Book Fair will hold a kiosk at the Montreal Book Fair, from November 14 to 19, 2018, and invited the Goethe-Institut Montreal to share it.
In 2020, Canada will be the guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair. This is an opportunity to build new relationships and strengthen existing ones between the German and Canadian literature communities.
The Frankfurt Book Fair intends to meet with Canadian actors from the literary scene, answer their questions, and present translated works from German into French or English through their presence at the Montreal Book Fair.
The German comic artist Olivia Vieweg will be present at various activities at the 2018 Montreal Book Fair.
About the author
Olivia Vieweg
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Olivia Vieweg studied Visual Communication at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and graduated in 2011 with the comic "Endzeit". She was co-editor of the manga anthology "Paper Theater", for which she received the ICOM Independent Prize in 2010. She also illustrates cartoon books, teen novels and gift books. Her comics have appeared, among others, in the "Subway to Sally Storybook".
In 2013 Suhrkamp published Olivia Vieweg's "Huck Finn - The Graphic Novel". In 2012, she won the Comics Scholarship from Egmont with her concept for "Antoinette Returns", which was released in 2014. A reworked and longer version of "Endzeit" appeared in 2018, in addition to being adapted to the cinema (screening planned for 2019).
Olivia Vieweg at the 2018 Montreal Book Fair:
Wednesday, November 14, 2 pm to 2:25 pm
School event
Life after school bullying
In “The return of Antoinette”, Antoinette goes back to her former village to face her past and her old friends who have harassed her at school. What other advice or strategies could have been implemented instead of the actions she has chosen in the comic?
In German, with consecutive translation in French.
Participants:
Olivia Vieweg, author.
Nicholas Aumais, moderator.
Doris Linsenmeier, interpreter.
Location: Place Confort TD
Target group: 14 years and +
Friday, November 16, 12:30 to 1 pm
Public presentation
Bilingual reading of "Huck Finn" with projections
Description: Olivia Vieweg offers with "her" Huck Finn a modern and cheeky version of a world literature classic. In Halle, in today's Germany, Huck will experience other adventures with, of course, a raft.
Bilingual reading in German and French with projections of the comic. 25 minutes.
Participants: Olivia Vieweg, author.
Anissa Lahyane, actress.
Location: Place Confort TD
Audience: 14 years and +
Friday, November 16, 3 pm to 3:30 pm
Public presentation
Inside Olivia Vieweg’s workshop
Discover the workplace of Olivia Vieweg, an award-winning German cartoonist. With a picture-rich presentation she will let you take part in her creative world.
Her works “Huck Finn”, based on Mark Twain's classics, and “The return of Antoinette” -which deals with school bullying - were translated into French.
In German, with consecutive interpretation in French.
Participants:
Olivia Vieweg, author.
Catherine Emmanuel Brunet, moderator.
Doris Linsenmeier, interpreter.
Location: L’Agora
Audience: All public
Friday, November 16, 4 to 5 pm
Presentation at stand #761
Book signing session with Olivia Vieweg
Accompanied by a presentation of her comics "The return of Antoinette" and "Huck Finn", meet Olivia Vieweg and get one of her works in French translation and let your book be personalized by her!
Participants:
Olivia Vieweg, author.
Anissa Lahyane, actress and translator.
Location: Stand 761
Audience: All public
about the Frankfurt Book fair
Once a year, the Frankfurt Book Fair turns into the world capital of ideas. It is the most important international trading venue for content of all kinds - from novels and children's books to scientific databases.
Here, experts from global publishing meet partners from the technology industry and related creative industries such as film and games, from where new cooperations and business models take their course.
At the same time, the fair is a major cultural event: around 7,300 exhibitors from over 100 countries, more than 275,000 visitors, over 4,000 events, around 10,000 journalists and around 2,400 bloggers make the Frankfurt Book Fair the world's largest trade fair for publishing every year - and Frankfurt, the metropolis on the Main, the centre of the international media world.
The Frankfurter Buchmesse GmbH, based in Frankfurt am Main, is the organisation behind the Frankfurt Book Fair. It is a subsidiary of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association.
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