Banu Mushtaq is an Indian writer, lawyer and activist born in 1948 in Hassan, Karnataka. Over three decades she wrote short stories portraying women who resist patriarchy, religious pressure and corruption in their own quiet, everyday ways. Her story collection appeared in German translation as „Meistens bleibt ja die Frau zu Hause".
😴 Nothing scheduled with this artist in the near future.
78lectureThu 29.10.Dr. Mark Benecke - Live 2026/27
78lectureFri 11.12.Ben Becker Reads T.C. Boyle: No Way Home
77lectureSat 21.11.Reinhold Messner - Life at the Limit
76lectureSun 8.11.Pony Show
76lectureSun 6.12.Lydia Benecke - The Psychology of Manipulation
75lectureFri 30.10.An Evening with Fran Lebowitz
73lectureSun 15.11.Joschka Fischer: Who Are We? - Germany in Search of Its Identity
72lectureThu 3.12.Ferdinand von Schirach - The Silent Friend
72lectureThu 17.12.Birgit Minichmayr Reads from "Die souveräne Leserin" by Alan Bennett
72lectureSun 28.2.Ferdinand von Schirach
71lectureSun 13.12.Gregor Gysi - Over a Currywurst with Gregor Gysi
71lectureFri 8.1.Gregor Gysi - Over a Currywurst with Gregor Gysi
A literary evening where international and German autumn guests of Literarisches Colloquium Berlin present their latest books and discuss their work.
An evening with Banu Mushtaq, winner of the International Booker Prize 2025, whose short story collection about women in India is now published in German for the first time, translated directly from Kannada.
A reading and conversation with Indian writer Banu Mushtaq about women who resist in everyday life. Her award-winning story collection, presented in German and English.