»Literature on the Island« has been held up to five times a year at Café Ada in Wuppertal since 2014. »Ada« is Turkish and means »island«.

The guests in "Literature on the Island" are well-known authors from Germany and abroad. They read from their books, talk about their work, bring foreign texts or music that are important to them. After a break, the topics of the evening can be deepened with photos, music, a film or in free conversation. Once a year there is an issue with a regional author.

The hosts are the theater director, singer and author Torsten Krug and – since November 2018 – the freelance dramaturge Dr. Uta Atzpodien (to date: the musician Katrina Schulz from Cologne). The mentor of the event is the Wuppertal writer and former publishing director Hermann Schulz.