Catch Austrian-German writer Daniel Kehlmann at the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2026!

Hollywood to Nazi Germany, Garbo to Goebbels – The Director is Daniel Kehlmann’s imaginative take on filmmaker G W Pabst and the heady entanglement of art, politics, and power at the peak of the Nazi regime. Exploring complicity and moral compromise, the rise and fall of German cinema, and the politics and propaganda of the silver screen, don’t miss International Booker Prize-shortlisted Kehlmann discussing his controversial, magnificent book, and his storied career with Chair Pasquale Iannone.

Tuesday 25 August 2026, 7.15pm
Courtyard Theatre
Edinburgh Futures Institute
Lauriston Place, EH3 9EF
For more information and tickets see here.