A multimedia Event for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
A multimedia Event for Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
… for an incredibly amazing, exhilarating, content-packed and well-attended first MetropolCon! Only with all of you together we were able to make this vision a reality, thus, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you to everyone who was part of it: Exhibitors, dealers, and speakers, helpers and curious newbies, audience and shoppers, supporting members …
MetropolCon 2023 is almost here! Here are a few practical bits of information and tips we’ve gathered for you. If you have any questions, feel free to email us at programm [at] metropolcon.eu Food options onsite: MARS: Restaurant with a small but refined menu, drinks, and a fabulous selection of cakes LITTLE MARS: Small, café-style …
🇩🇪 Professor for Artificial Intelligence, Ravensburg-Weingarten University Click here for the MetropolCon program.
We now have a YouTube channel, and our first video is the MetropolCon 2023 aftermovie. Take a look to see what you missed! (Image shows German cyberpunk duo The Gamma Rats performing. Check them out here)
A personal progress report by con chair Claudia Rapp, and a trajectory towards 2026 I was just in Sweden at the Eurocon, which once again showed me in the most beautiful way why I’m doing all this. Why I’m writing this text, why I’ve dedicated more than two years of my life almost entirely to …
Claudia and Constanze were in Uppsala, Sweden last weekend, where this year’s Eurocon took place. From Thursday afternoon until the Dead Dog Party on Sunday evening, fans and authors, nerds and artists from all over Europe met here. South Sweden showed us its sunniest side; during the day it was around 25 degrees, even if …
🇩🇪 Film and literary scholar Daniel Illger studied film studies, comparative literature, and philosophy in Berlin and Münster. He is Professor of Popular Cultures at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, has a PhD on the urban stagings of Italian post-war cinema and habilitated with a study on the fantasy mode in video games; his …
Herbert W. Franke († 2022) was not only a physicist, author, and pioneer of German-language science fiction, but also a trailblazer of computer or digital art. In our exhibition we show a selection of his works, prints from the series “Phantastische Welten” and “Z-Galaxy,” and as a colorful potpourri from 65 years of his art …
🇩🇪 Exhibition We proudly host the exhibition “Land of Reading: GDR.” For the section “Science Fiction in the GDR” Wolfgang Both, Ralf Neuklirchen and Mario Franke will be awarded the Kurd Laßwitz Prize. The award ceremony will take place on Friday, May 19, from 5:30 to 7:00 pm in the Kuppelhalle. More on the KLP …
🇩🇪 Writer Thomas Finn was born in Chicago in 1967 and now lives in Hamburg. Trained in advertising and with a degree in economics, he is an award-winning writer and fantasy author and worked for several years as an editor and dramaturgist in a screenplay publishing house (Ullmann Verlag für Film, Fernsehen & Theater) and …
🇩🇪 Writer Traveling salesman of comfort and dread. We’ll go with this self-description from Dave’s website, that should be enough to make you curious. Dave will be joining us for a live episode of the German podcast “Toxic Love” with his colleagues Isa and Juliane, on Thursday from 8:45 to 9:45 pm in Atelier 2. …
