10th - 15th October 2013 From October 10th to 15th 2013, the Literature Festival Ruse will take place again presenting innovative authors from Germany, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Bulgaria. Under the motto "Not Only Books", this year's edition of the Literature Festival will bring together different personalities, perspectives and formats and present texts More...
25th September – 5th October 2013 On September 28th, 1987, 5.000-6.000 people gathered in the center of Ruse in front of the party headquarters and protested against the serious air pollution caused by chlorine gases expelled from the Romanian chemical plant "Verachim" in Giurgiu. Different people went out on the streets - ordinary citizens, dissidents More...
Mieze Medusa aka Doris Mitterbacher is one of the big names in Austrian Hip hop and slam poetry scene and a member of the backlab collective. She publishes prose, poetry, spoken word texts and rap lyrics in books and literary journals, produces records and performs poetry live on stage. In 2008 her first novel Freischnorcheln More...
with one of the authors from the German book prize longlist 2013 The best German novel for 2013 is to be selected from a list of 20 works - the so called longlist of the nominated authors, who are looking forward to the great final on the Frankfurt Book Fair. Also in Bulgaria the tension More...
The writer Anna Tuene (1950) has studied Philosophy and Roman Studies. She has been working for 25 years as a writer and freelance cultural manager and project manager. On September, 18th she read some excerpts from her work The Restoration of Happiness. A German Childhood in France, which had recently been published by the Elias More...
Lecture with Markus Butkereit 25.07.2013 18:00 Canetti House Invisible Cities - Ruse is the first part of Markus Butkereit’s project which was realized during his three-month stay in Ruse. Markus Butkereit approaches the city from its margins, its overlooked and hidden areas: abandoned grounds, bunkers, old industrial buildings, ruins of schools. Exploring the city by More...
8th – 12th July 2013 We are surrounded by emptiness, but it is an emptiness filled with signs. – Henri Lefebvre, Everyday Life in the Modern World. Over the last two decades, our modern cities have increasingly been filled with images most of which convey commercial messages. For this purpose, they also developed a visual More...
On your marks, get set, go! The city as a playground June 12th-21st 2013 Ruse In the frame of the project On Your Marks and under the motto On Your Marks, get set, go!, which will take place from June 12th to June 21st, the International Elias Canetti Society presents a series of events renegotiating More...
The International Elias Canetti Society organizes a national competition on topic Colours of Faith in two areas – graffiti and photography. The original event is part of the Az Grada (I, the City) Festival, which takes place for the second year in a row in Ruse. The challenge for the participants is to show through More...
On May, 30th (Friday) the International Elias Canetti Society together with Vladimir Danovski, Bulgarian theater director, who lives and works in Munich, organizes a theater workshop for youngsters The Rescue. The occasion is the 70th anniversary of the rescue of the Bulgarian Jews from deportation to the death camps during World War II. 35 students More...
