Culture - Around 3500 visitors at the Eifel Literature Festival
The Eifel Literature Festival attracted approximately 3500 visitors this year. This number, with only six events, is unusual for a literature festival in the countryside, the organizers stated on a Wednesday in Prüm. The festival, which started this year under new management with a compact edition from April to June, featured authors such as crime writer Jean-Luc Bannalec, journalist and TV moderator Christian Sievers, and author Navid Kermani.
The demand was often greater than the spaces available, the new festival director Johannes Zierden shared. There were 500 interested parties on waiting lists who could not be served. The Eifel Literature Festival was founded 30 years ago, in 1994. It is expected to continue under the auspices of the Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm every two years.
To date, the festival has brought over 250 authors from 16 countries to the Eifel region, including Nobel Prize in Literature laureates Günter Grass (1927-2015) and Herta Müller.
- The Eifel Literature Festival, founded 30 years ago in Prüm, attracts thousands of visitors, even in its compact festival edition, making it an unusual success for a literature festival in the Rhineland-Palatinate's Eifel countryside.
- Despite its limited number of events, the Festivals in Eifel managed to invite prominent authors such as Jean-Luc Bannalec, Christian Sievers, and Navid Kermani, with even more interested parties eager to attend, creating a waiting list of 500.
- Over the years, the Eifel Literature Festival has become a significant literary event, welcoming more than 250 authors from 16 countries to the region, including Nobel Prize in Literature laureates Günter Grass and Herta Müller.
