When does the reading with Tomer Gardi take place?

The reading takes place on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, at 8:00 PM and ends according to the event information at 10:00 PM.

Where does the event take place?

The reading takes place on the literary stage on the ground floor of the central library Bielefeld at Neumarkt 1.

What is the ticket price?

The regular ticket price is 15 euros. Reduced tickets cost 10 euros. The price for the livestream is 7 euros.

What is Tomer Gardi's novel Deliver about?

The novel connects the stories of food delivery people in six cities into a literary world tour and addresses work, migration, and global dependencies.

Is there musical accompaniment?

Yes. Henning Rice and Valentin Katter accompany the evening with piano, trumpet, and singing.

Who moderates the reading?

The event will be moderated by Christiane Neumann.

Tomer Gardi reads Deliver: A literary world tour through the invisible delivery world

Name: Literary Days Bielefeld - Tomer Gardi "Deliver"
Start: 2026-10-20T20:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-10-20T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Zentralbibliothek Bielefeld

Tomer Gardi transforms the global delivery world into literature

On Tuesday, October 20, 2026, Tomer Gardi will be a guest at the Bielefeld Literary Days. In the central library at Neumarkt, the Israeli writer will read from his novel Deliver and take his audience into a literary world that oscillates between Berlin, Delhi, Tel Aviv, Buenos Aires, and Istanbul.

Six cities, six episodes, a global everyday life

Food delivery people are part of the visible cityscape yet often remain invisible. Gardi takes this contradictory reality as the starting point of his novel. He researched for three years in six cities and distilled the experiences of bicycle couriers into six interconnected episodes. At the core are work, migration, urban dependencies, and the question of who is seen in the globalized present.

A language in motion

Tomer Gardi is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary German literature. His style combines narrative directness, linguistic shifts, and a dry, often mischievous humor. Broken German already made his conscious work on the German language a literary event. In Deliver, documentary precision, social observation, and a skillfully composed narrative meet.

Literary quality with societal sharpness

Gardi does not write as a moralizing commentator. He lets situations, voices, and life stories speak for themselves. It is from this that the special literary quality of the novel emerges: The working world of delivery services appears as a focal point of a society where convenience, migration, and economic exploitation are closely intertwined.

For A Round Thing, Tomer Gardi received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2022. His radio play of Broken German was awarded the German Radio Play Prize of the ARD in 2017. His reading in Bielefeld promises an author encounter where literary language art and cultural discourse come together directly.

Reading atmosphere with music

The event will take place on the literary stage on the ground floor of the city library. In addition to the reading, piano, trumpet, and singing define the evening: Henning Rice and Valentin Katter will musically accompany the literary program. This creates a sensual literary experience between voice, rhythm, and urban present.

Conclusion: Literature that changes the view of the city

Those who receive ordered meals daily encounter in Deliver the people behind the click, the bicycle, and the brief handover at the door. Tomer Gardi transforms these fleeting encounters into a multi-voiced narrative about work, migration, and global interconnections. Literature enthusiasts will experience a reading in Bielefeld with societal relevance, narrative energy, and linguistic artistry.