Selection 2021

The jury has met and selected 20 young authors from the submissions as prize winners of this year’s Treffen junger Autor*innen. 367 young writers from all over the Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Czech Republic put their thoughts and stories into short texts, prose and poems and submitted them. After a period of intensive reading, the jury of experts has now nominated 20 artists from 8 federal states and Austria who will be invited to the meeting of young authors from 11 to 15 November. In addition, 20 other applicants will receive a book cheque for 75 € as a promotional prize for their interesting and promising texts.
 

Nora Antonic
14 years
Mannheim (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
selected with the text
“Verrückt, der Boden”
 

Mira Elisabeth Bastrop
11 years
Wittenförden OT Neu Wandrum (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
selected with the texts
“10 Poems”
 

Anna Bauer
19 years
Sieggraben (Austria)
selected with the text
“Es war einmal Wolf”
 

Sven Beck
19 years
Frankfurt am Main (Hesse)
selected with the text
“Großeltern”
 

Ruta Dreyer
19 years
Hannover (Lower Saxony)
selected with the texts
“Freier Fall”, “Miami”, “spieglein spieglein an der wand”
 

Rosa Engelhardt
20 years
Berlin
selected with the texts
“stalagmiten”, “sättigung”
 

Julian Sebastian Fröhling
17 years
Au (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
selected with the texts
“Bauernkind”, “Der alte Mann”, “Überbleibsel”, “In einer leeren Stadt”, “Das Telefonat”, “Die Intellektuellen”, “Eilende Gedanken”, “Vor russischen Türen”, “Vater und Tante”, “Gelbe Regenjacken”
 

Helen Gierhake
19 years
Heidelberg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
selected with the texts
“Look, Mom, I’m a poet now!”, “Wilde Blumen”, “Exhibition”, “Rätsel des Tages”, “Mittsommertagskodex”, “Chamäleonmädel”
 

Katharina Heinrichs
15 years
Freiburg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
selected with the text
“Sommertagsausflug” (excerpt)
 

Ada Charlotte Kilfitt
21 years
Bochum (North Rhine-Westphalia)
selected with the text
“Paul Kaiser”
 

Lilli Nawar
19 years
Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia)
selected with the text
“Taubenlaichen”
 

Anna Pilar von Pilchau
20 years
Berlin
selected with the text
“stimmbruch”
 

Miriam Radlinger
14 years
Augsburg (Bavaria)
selected with the texts
“Das Apothekenkreuz”, „Der Waagen-Skandal”
 

Diana Röthlinger
22 years
Hüllhorst (North Rhine-Westphalia)
selected with the texts
“Gedichte in D-Moll”
 

Anne Luise Rupp
21 years
Vienna (Austria)
selected with the text
“Unter dem Walnussbaum”
 

Sophie Schollek
20 years
Lotte (North Rhine-Westphalia)
selected with the text
“LYRIK UND DIE SANFTE WUT”
 

Berfin Sönmez
19 years
Berlin
selected with the texts
“Wohin mit dem Kram”, “Yande träumt”, “Der Weberknecht”
 

Kathrin Thenhausen
20 years
Potsdam (Brandenburg)
selected with the texts
“berlin, berghain. 4 Uhr”, “nur durchreisende in der dürre”, “abends ertrinkt meine zunge in schweigen”, “zeitlosigkeit”, “Bahnhof, 18 Uhr”
 

Finn Tubbe
19 years
Schopfheim (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
selected with the text
“Tapetenriss”
 

Fanny Walger
17 years
Bebra (Hesse)
selected with the texts
“Eddingstriche”, “Schummerlicht”, “Sonett in Nataschas Handschrift”, “Letzte Male und Restnikotin”, “Herbst”, “Bushaltestelle in spe”, “Lukas’ Gedicht”