Reading Aloud Day 2026 with Babette Pribbenow

"Pepper Mint and the Crazy, Fantastic Research Book"

Germany’s biggest reading festival is coming back to us! National Reading Day delights children and adults alike with stories that spark the imagination, impart knowledge, and—along the way—promote language development. At the Archenhold Observatory and the Zeiss Grand Planetarium, authors such as Sandra Bayer, Fee Krämer, and Cally Stronk invite you to listen, dream, and discover.Reading with Babette PribbenowBabette Pribbenow is a German studies scholar and holds a Ph.D. in biology. She serves as a volunteer judge for “Jugend forscht” and is one of the founders of “Lise Labs” and the Berlin Student Research Center. Here, students can conduct experiments in well-equipped labs and discover the joy of STEM subjects.“Pepper Mint and the Crazy Fantastic Research Book” (Franckh Kosmos Verlag)Actually, spending the summer at Aunt Frieda and Uncle Theo’s is exciting enough on its own! Who—other than the girl Pepper Mint—gets to spend a few weeks in a real treehouse in the middle of the Amazon rainforest? That’s where her aunt and uncle live and conduct their research—and Pepper enthusiastically helps care for the animals, which are being raised in good health here on a small farm. But then a real adventure begins: Uncle Theo has suddenly disappeared, and Pepper finds only a mysterious message that leads her onto the trail of criminal schemes. And solving this mysterious case will require all the investigative skills that Pepper—and the readers—have to offer... The program for Read-Aloud Day 2026 with the Berlin Planetarium Foundation: 9:00–10:00 a.m.Sandra Bayer“Galactically Secret Alien Mysteries”Zeiss Grand Planetarium, Planetarium Hall9:00–9:45 a.m.Fee Krämer“HÄNK – A Hamster Dreams of Space”Archenhold ObservatoryEinstein Hall10:00–10:45 a.m.Inga Marie Ramcke“The Astronaut Next Door: A Journey from the Children’s Room to Space”Archenhold ObservatoryEinstein Hall11:00–11:45 a.m.Cally Stronk, Christian Friedrich“Mystery Agents: On a Mission for N.A.S.E.”Archenhold Observatory,, Einstein Hall12:00–12:45 p.m.Babette Pribbenow“Pepper Mint and the Wildly Fantastic Research Book”Archenhold ObservatoryEinstein Hall © Stiftung Lesen, Deutsche Bahn Foundation, DIE ZEITTranslated with DeepL

Meeting point: Archenhold-Sternwarte | Einstein Hall

Next date:

• Date Friday, 20/November/2026 12:00 bis 12:00
• Venue Archenhold-Sternwarte
• Address Alt-Treptow 1, 12435 Berlin-Treptow