lit.COLOGNE is Europe's largest literary festival and took an active part in TikTok's #CreatorsForDiversity art and cultural funding program.

For many years, lit.COLOGNE events have been translated into sign language. Accordingly, in our TikTok campaign, we had well-known quotes from entertainment and culture expressed in signs parallel to the audio track. Vision accompanied by hearing created a unique visual appeal and subtle learning effect regarding the versatility of this language.

Within the festival, there is also the REMIX Schreibwerkstatt! for young people with learning difficulties. In the midst of the colorful backdrop of the Super Candy PopUp Museum, the children read out their literary texts themselves as much as possible, created in the Schreibwerkstatt. They are about Corona, war, the Kelly Family — they are lifelike or fantastic. Through this interaction, we have succeeded in bridging distances and showing that the interests of young people with disabilities are no different from those of their peers.