Tuesday, June 2, 2026 – 7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:00 p.m.).

Admission free, donation welcome. If you would like to make a reservation, please send a brief email to: post@art-of-buna.de

“Mister Biller’s yellow hat is hanging in the coat check at the café in Prenzlauer Berg where my friend Mathieu works. I put it on after paying for my two cappuccinos and stroll through the neighborhood with a mischievous grin on my face, as if I wanted to provoke the people on the street.”

Chance encounters that shape the course of events for quite some time—or that are simply annoying. Travel acquaintances and their quirks. Friendships that fall apart, and reunions that don’t go smoothly. Adrian Kasnitz’s new stories are a strange hat that you put on to transform yourself and provoke. They take place in Cologne and Berlin, they lead to Leipzig and Prague, they veer off to Albania, Latvia, London, and Shenzhen. Sometimes you wish you hadn’t put on that strange hat.

Adrian Kasnitz, born on the Baltic Sea coast, raised in the Westphalian mountains, studied in Cologne and Prague, and now lives in Cologne as a writer, editor, and event organizer. In addition to the nine volumes of Kalendarium #1 through #9 (parasitenpresse 2015–2024) published to date, his most recent works include Im Sommer hatte ich eine Umarmung (parasitenpresse 2023) and Glückliche Niederlagen, the bilingual prose collection Pierre Huyghe hired me (parasitenpresse 2019), as well as the novel Bessermann. For his literary work, he has been honored with awards including the Dieter-Wellershoff-Stipendium from the City of Cologne. Since 2019, he has been part of the team curating the European Literature Festival Cologne-Kalk (ELK).