# Daniel Kehlmann: Afrika

Daniel Kehlmann: Afrika at Berliner Ensemble, Sunday 15 November 2026, 15:00.

- Price: Preis C
- Venue: Berliner Ensemble, Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, 10117 Berlin
- With: Daniel Kehlmann, Sandra Kegel
- Go to page: https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/daniel-kehlmann-afrika

![Daniel Kehlmann: Afrika](https://noky.io/images/1ef87f258972eb47089d6af4b7dacfe4386961fd7b00dcab20241ca18c428c7b-600.webp)

A book premiere at the Berliner Ensemble: Daniel Kehlmann reads from his new novel "Afrika" and talks with Sandra Kegel about it. The dark novel comedy is set in Berlin in the winter of 1884/85, where representatives of European states, the USA and the Ottoman Empire negotiate trade, territorial claims and expansion. As a colonial order takes shape, the Austrian negotiator Strinetzky tries to cover up a private fraud. The conversation also explores how literature transforms historical reality and makes colonial entanglements visible up to the present.

## Dates

- Sunday 15 November 15:00 — Berliner Ensemble

Written by a model, sources: [visitberlin.de](https://www.visitberlin.de/de/event/daniel-kehlmann-afrika), [berliner-ensemble.de](https://www.berliner-ensemble.de/inszenierung/daniel-kehlmann-afrika)

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