The audience holds nine speeches to the snack reception, the Belarusian author Alhierd Bacharevič wins a prize, a triangle player stirs to tears: the ceremony for the opening of the Leipzig book fair offers heartbreaking mini moments.
In the Gewandhaus, the beautiful concert hall in downtown Leipzig, the program of the opening evening of the book fair is really versatile in the armchair. Nothing eating before such events: always a mistake. No fewer than five greeting and greetings hang like a letter -made interval fasting above the actual event of the evening: the awarding of the Leipzig Book Prize for European understanding to the Belarusian writer Alhierd Bacharevič.