Program
Check out this year's program! You can join the fair and the conference program for free. Workshops and roundtables require registration and a Trade Visitor's Ticket.
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Talk Main Stage
Opening
We open the 12th festival edition, welcome and celebrate exhibitors and guests from all over the world.![Opening]()
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Broccoli as Compost
What happens when one magazine has to end so that others can begin? Editor, publisher, and creative director Anja Charbonneau shares her story.Earlier this year, Anja Charbonneau announced that she was closing ...With: Broccoli Stack
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Risoforum
RISOFORUM is a discourse day around risography as one particular, famously infamous tool of self-publishing and DIY printing hosted by Hamburg based collective Risofort, interested in furthering the debate around the ...With: Atelier Tatanka Gloria Glitzer Hocus Bogus Publishing Ise Weier Matt Plezier MeloMeloLab Oficyna Peryferie Printhope Risofort / SofortBooks
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4 in 60 Minutes
Four talks back to back in 60 minutes: A little bit like speed dating for people who want to find something interesting to read, we present four short interviews with four great magazines.With: GRASS Magazine Icarus Complex Magazine Stack The Paper Troublemakers
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Surplus: An assembly for a new economy
There are plenty of business magazines for the already wealthy. Surplus flips the script – focusing instead on economic issues that benefit the majority. The hybrid publication brings together a choir of prominent eco...With: Brumaire Verlag / Jacobin Magazin / Surplus Magazin Henning Walther (brueder coop)
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Breaking Magazines
Chopping off corners, drilling out chunks, even ripping pages by hand – editor Pang Xue Qiang explains why he’s obsessed with destroying Meantime magazine.Published in Singapore, each issue of Meantime magazine...With: Meantime Stack
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Superbude Reading Stage
Welcome to the Reading Stage! In this open format, each participant has 15 minutes to read from their publication. Grab a drink and enjoy the ride.With: Ankerwechsel Verlag Bajocalle Gráfika bog bodies press Chéri Magazine froh.ngo GAZER grapefruits Fanzine HEISS HEISS, BABY! Icarus Complex Magazine Parallelprotokolle Set Margins TERAZ Verlag Translator magazine Verband Deutscher Schriftsteller:innen Hamburg
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Lady Liberty Library Reader Launch
Lady Liberty Library Reader Launch & Book Trailer Music Video Screening Celebrate 10 years of Nina Prader’s artistic practice and activities on printed mattersunder the label and artist name Lady Lib...With: Lady Liberty Press & Library
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How to Indiecon – Ask Me Anything
In case you ever asked yourself how an Independent Publishing Festival comes to life – or if you are planning something similar: Indiecon designer Timo Durst will give a brief introduction into the process behind find...With: brueder coop
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The Shape of Desire: Eros, Aesthetics & Editorial Resistance
In a time of rising repression—when rights, pleasures, and identities face increased policing—what role does the erotic play in imagining alternative futures?This panel brings together Fluffer Everyday Magazine...With: Chéri Magazine Fluffer Everyday Magazine Frisson Magazine Lubi Barre
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The so-called “Women*’s Magazine”
Every culture has at least one. Often subject to change and in times of backlash, what role can the so-called category of FLINTA and women*’s independent magazines play by informing, expressing, and speaking out, and ...With: Afghan Punk Magazine Colorama Lady Liberty Press & Library Lilith Magazine
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If You Build It, They Will Come: Shineemo Banaadir
A compelling mini-documentary presentation featuring the creators of Shineemo Banaadir, Somalia's first Somali-language film magazine covering global cinema. Created by a community of young people working without pay ...With: Lubi Barre Shineemo Banaadir
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Idle Moments - A six-minute solo for a handbalancer
It could be a Sunday—or any day. You might call it a morning routine, or just a routine. Calming down to some music, reading something, having a coffee (or two) —but upside down. In this universe, where everything is ...With: Circus Mags (Yana, Dynamo Magazine, The Handstand Press, Acreo)
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The Rapid Publisher
The Rapid Publisher means: A room full of people, drinks all day long, your brain meets the copy machine, creates publications with your hands!Every few seconds the photocop...With: The Rapid Publisher
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Workshop Maker Space
Maker Space Workshop - Excel Poetry Zine Station
In this workshop, a printed Excel spreadsheet transformed into a large fabric grid becomes the stage for collective poetry-making. Participants are invited to add sticky notes with words, phrases, or anonymously share...With: Corporate Aesthetics
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Workshop - How to Launch a Magazine
Thinking of launching a magazine?We’ll help you solidify your idea and your next steps in our ‘How to launch a magazine’ workshopWe’ll cover:* Your magazine’s subject matter and the business models...With: International Magazine Centre
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Maker Space Workshop - Line/Break - Poetry
Maker Space Workshop - Line/BreakLine/Break is an exploration of the relationship between your choices on the page & their landings on the hearts, minds & mouths of readers. In a condenced version fro...With: FLORETS
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Workshop - Navbar Life
How do you navigate your own life? What if you ask yourself to make a sitemap of your present, past or future? How would the burger icon of your unique menu look like? How does it expand, how many links and dropdowns ...![Workshop - Navbar Life]()
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Maker Space Workshop - Dopamine Menu Zine-Making
Create a dopamine menu zine: a personal pocket-sized resource that you can dip into whenever you need a boost of creativity and nourishment! A 'Dopamine Menu' is a curated list of (wholesome!) dopamine-inducing activi...With: sweet-thang zine
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Workshop - Silent Writing Session
Schreib in Stille, allein und doch verbunden, während die Welt leise an uns vorbeizieht.Ein kleiner Impuls bringt alles ins Rollen. Lass dich von deiner Umgebung tragen, von deiner inneren Stimme leiten oder e...With: 1A KOLLEKTIV
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Maker Space Workshop - Fabrication of zines
In this hands-on workshop, participants will create a fabric-based zine using repurposed scraps and discarded materials. Inspired by the playful geometry of the Paper Fortune Teller game, the foldable format draws fro...With: KOVA
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Workshop - toolstoolstools
In this workshop, we will collectively share and explore a range of open source and web-based creative tools. After a short introduction and demonstration, you'll have time to experiment and create your own fragmental...![Workshop - toolstoolstools]()
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Maker Space Workshop - Cut, Ink, Print – Linocut on the Move with Garabatos Móvil!
Join us for a hands-on linocut printmaking session powered by Garabatos Móvil – our mobile printmaking studio on a cargo bike!In this workshop, participants will learn the basics of linocut: from designing and...With: Garabatos Atelier
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Maker Space Workshop - MAKING SYSTEMS VISIBLE: Designing Climate Narratives in Print
A hands-on zine-making workshop exploring how to visually communicate complex climate and systemic issues through collage, mapping, and storytelling prompts. Participants will create zines that reveal interconnections...With: Icarus Complex Magazine
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Maker Space Workshop - Mini Book Binding
In this workshop you will learn various techniques for folding and binding books and zines in mini format. To warm up, the zine fold and the fanfold, then several thread stitching techniques such as saddle stitching, ...With: Prima. Publikationen
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Workshop - AI Art Class (No Grades!)
A relaxed and playful art session where we use text prompts and image tools like drawing exercises. You don’t need to know anything about AI or art – just show up and play. Explore surreal subjects, collective ideas, ...With: The AI Art Magazine
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Workshop - Graphic Essays: How to Use Zines to Make Academic Theory More Accessible
Most people don't have time to read 500 pages of theory unless they are in the field of academia, but this theory has the potential to become much more accessible through zines and comics. In this workshop, I will dis...With: Darya Farah Foroohar
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Workshop Maker Space
Maker Space Workshop - Exquisite Creatures — Collaborate on Riso posters
Join us for collaging & printing mutant bodies and beings. At this run-in Riso print station, you contribute half of a yet-to-be-assembled creature - we will match them with other designs to create surprising post...With: Risofort / SofortBooks
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Workshop - From page to post – Fun format ideas for your socials
Announcing your newest issue on social media is great – but what about all the amazing stories your publication holds? Lara and Marcel from Soft Communication offer inspiration for contemporary and playful social medi...![Workshop - From page to post – Fun format ideas for your socials]()
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Roundtable Roundtable Space
Roundtable - Magazines as political act, how indie publishing meets activism
How indie magazines serve as powerful political acts and platforms for activism. This discussion will dive into how independent publishing challenges mainstream narratives, amplifies marginalized voices, and uses visu...With: Frisson Magazine
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Roundtable - Publishing as a Collaborative Practice
An increasing number of book artists and independent publishers see the value of their work in the collaborative aspects of it. Add print studios, project spaces and galleries offering workshops and DIY book binding c...With: Falschrum e.V.
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Roundtable - Stirring Up Trouble! Critical Publishing at Art Universities
We aim to bring creators of student publication projects together. The goal is to create an open space for exchange on critical content, strategies for independent publishing, and student activism within the universit...With: Gurk Biegichenstein
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Roundtable - Queer zine publishing: What’s the point and where do we go from here?
Is there still an envelope being pushed? Or are we simply making zines because that’s what queers do?My work deals with religion, homosexuality, family and a lot of rage. Often I wonder: Where do I take this r...With: Hello Mom
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Roundtable - Magazines across borders and languages
How do we make sure that magazines reach out across national markets and linguistic borders? The world is super global. But different languages often divide us as much as they connect us. This can reinforce power imba...With: Translator magazine
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Roundtable - How to become a freelancers favourite client
At Neue Narrative magazine we collaborate with numerous freelancers, particularly illustrators. They frequently tell us we're very easy to work with — which is largely thanks to a system we set up that makes the whole...With: Neue Narrative
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Roundtable - Midnight Sun
What is interesting for me is how the progress of light technology allows humans to ‘colonise’ the night. Sometimes, this illumination serves to double the hours for work and pleasure. But this affects both animals an...With: This Book Is True
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Roundtable - Launching and managing a membership
Join us if you're thinking of turning your magazine into a membership.We'll cover:* Why you should start a membership* What services you already have that you could monetise* What needs to happen f...With: International Magazine Centre
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Roundtable - Intermedia spine: artists' books/publications as objects between genres and fields
The theme of the talk, are the wide opportunities for intermedia approaches to art making, that the artist books/publishing practices as a medium offer. It will begin by analyzing the term intermedia within the art co...With: Arurkokk
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Roundtable - Independent and self-publishing in Asia
A growing and divergent movement of independent publishing is happening in Asia. It goes against the grain, and is able to achieve what mainstream publishing cannot – offering offbeat perspectives, pushing boundaries ...With: Meantime
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Roundtable - Opening up the editorial office: editing and publishing as ongoing collective pratice
I'd like to share my experience with the OO (Open Occulto) meetings and explore how independent publishing can expand as an organic and collective ongoing practice with the help of formats like open meetings, temporar...With: Occulto
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Roundtable - DESIGNING FOR DEPTH | Visual Narratives for Annual Magazines
An open, reflective discussion on maintaining depth and intentionality amid the pressures of fast-paced media cycles and urgent crises. We’ll explore how storytelling on social media can resist speed, foster visibilit...With: Icarus Complex Magazine
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Guided Tour Table Schaff Verlag
Tour - Führung zur Baugeschichte des Oberhafens - Saturday
Führung zur Baugeschichte des Oberhafens – inkl. Besichtigung des Pop-Art-Kunstwerks von Werner NöferDas Oberhafenquartier besteht aus den bis Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts errichteten Schuppenanlagen des ehemali...With: Schaff-Verlag
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Guided Tour Table Schaff Verlag
Tour - Führung zur Baugeschichte des Oberhafens - Sunday
Führung zur Baugeschichte des Oberhafens – inkl. Besichtigung des Pop-Art-Kunstwerks von Werner NöferDas Oberhafenquartier besteht aus den bis Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts errichteten Schuppenanlagen des ehemali...With: Schaff-Verlag
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