Opening of the 8th White Ravens Festival 2025

Readings, Walk Acts, Workshops, Festival Café u.v.m. 

The 8th White Ravens Festival for International Children's and Youth Literature opens with a festival in the Blutenburg Castle courtyard. The library has prepared a colourful programme for children, young people, parents, grandparents, and readers of all ages.

After the official opening with the Brass Twins, and a short performance by the eleven invited authors, successful author Sabine Bohlmann opens the stage programme with a reading from ‘Frau Honig’. This will be followed by readings by Emma Karinsdotter, Kairi Look and Mo Abbas and a workshop with Spanish illustrator Ximo Abadía. On the ‘White Sofa’, the guests will talk about themselves and their work in flash interviews.

There will also be a giant phoenix on stilts, which will be given wings during the course of the day with wish lists from visitors, craft stations, a book sale, signing sessions and a café in the upper castle courtyard. In the enchanting ambience of the castle courtyard, the wealth of international children's literature and illustration will be celebrated for a whole day.

— You can find further information on the festival programme via wrfestival.de/en. — 

Tickets are available via MünchenTicket and at the box office:
6,- Euros (children 4 - 16 years), 8,- Euros (adults)

Location: Blutenburg Castle
Entry: from 10 a.m. onwards

PROGRAMME

– You can download the programme here. – 

Marquee

10.30 
The White Ravens fly in
Opening of the White Ravens Festival 2025 with all authors

12.00 
Frau Honig / reading with Sabine Bohlmann
German (from 8 years onwards)

12.45
Der Sommer, in dem ich meine Oma zähmte / reading with Emma Karinsdotter (Sweden) and Lilli Lorenz
German/Swedish (from 6 years onwards)

13.30
Macadam, courir les rues / musical-poetic event with Mo Abbas (France)
French

14.15
Das ZYX. Ein umgekehrtes ABC-Abenteuer / reading with FLIX
German (from 5 years onward)

15.00
Pia Pfefferminz zieht ein / reading with Kairi Look (Estonia)
German/Estonian (from 5 years onwards)

15.45
Frau Honig / reading with Sabine Bohlmann
German (from 8 years onwards)
 

The “White Sofa”

13.00 / Johannes Herwig in conversation with Tina Rausch (German)
13.20 / Anja Reumschüssel in conversation with Anna Hofer (German)
13.40 / Irene Sarmiento in conversation with Beate Schäfer (English)
14.00 / Ximo Abadía in conversation with Jochen Weber (English/Spanish)
14.20 / Kairi Look in conversation with Katja Wiebe (English)
14.40 / Martine Letterie in conversation with Christina Tüschen (German)
15.00 / Emma Karinsdotter in conversation with Ines Galling (English/Swedish)
15.20 / Mo Abbas in conversation with Oliver Ilan Schulz (German/French)
15.40 / FLIXin conversation with Christiane Raabe (German)
16.00 / Abdi Nazemian in conversation with Claudia Söffner (English)
 

Workshop

14.30
Workshop with Ximo Abadía 
German/Spanish (from 8 years onwards)

The White Ravens Festival is supported by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts, the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth, the City of Munich, the Friends of the International Youth Library Foundation, the Hans-Dieter-Beck Foundation, the Schlossschänke Blutenburg, the Dutch Literature Fund and other sponsors.