Selection 2022

The jury selected the winners of the Treffen junger Autor*innen 2022 from a total of 354 entries by young writers from all over Germany: 21 authors from nine German states were invited to the Treffen junger Autor*innen in Berlin from 17 to 21 November 2022. We would like to thank all the artists who participated in the national competition with their poems, stories and texts. We are impressed by the wealth of ideas and the diverse text forms that reached us. The jury had the difficult task of making a selection.

The selected prize winners are:

Emily Sara Adams
18 years
Bietigheim-Bissingen (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
selected with the text
“In Grund und Boden”

Anastasia Averkova
18 years
Dresden (Saxony)
selected with the texts
“ich reflektiere; in scherben”
“[Wolf im Schafspelz] ”
“frikative (lat. fricare): reibelaute”
“mein freund ist kurz zigaretten holen”
“statt”

Noah Baron
16 years
Syke (Lower Saxony)
selected with the texts
“POLAROID PLUS”
“Murmelspiel”

Clara Maj Dahlke
19 years
Berlin
selected with the text
“Weidenschlaf”

Laura Gerloff
20 years
Berlin
selected with the text
“Ringbahn”

Aline Hafermaas
22 years
Berlin
selected with the text
“Mikroereignisse”

Sorour Keramatboroujeni
21 years
Hamburg
selected with the text
“Das Hamsterlaufrad”

Jonah Lobner
19 years
Petershagen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
selected with the texts
“verstädten”
“Queer Peripheres”

Amalie Mbianda Njiki
19 years
Hilzingen/Riedheim (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
selected with the texts
“Ströme”
“Die Schuhe”

Tonda Montasser
10 years
Berlin
selected with the texts
Terrassenmassakerkinder (Gedichtzyklus):
“Der alte See meines Ichs, verdammt”
“Die Terrassenkinder ohne Terrassen”
“Terassenmassakerkinder versus Zelebrators”
“Beim Styx”

Alica Müller
21 years
Gießen (Hesse)
selected with the texts
“ich schaufle dem förderalismus ein grab, platziere 17 Steine dort”
“brutkasten memories”
“return to sender”
“maschinen, die man nicht ausschalten darf”
“Esperanto”
“#foryoupage”

Leon Oranian
22 years
Berlin
selected with the texts
“Trance-Atlantik“
“Der Besuch / Sonett”
“Die Nacht und der Panther”
“Lágrimas”

Alice Lovis Planz
21 years
Leipzig (Saxony)
selected with the texts
“olga wars”
“Bordbistro”
“nackenstarre”
“Berührungsfreie Stimulation”

Laurenz Quarz
22 years
Hamburg
selected with the text
“Glotzen”

Lena Riemer
20 years
Langenfeld (North Rhine-Westphalia)
selected with the text
“hysteresis”

Anne Tamm
16 years
Rostock (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
selected with the text
“Deine Absenz”

Alma Unseld
16 years
Karlsruhe (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
selected with the texts
“dem Berg”
“Morning”
“Seide”
“den bienen”
“The rain”
“einem gewitter”
“Weihnacht”

Blanca Victoria Vespermann
16 years
Hamburg
selected with the texts
“Draußen stürmt es”
“My garden, my choice”
“Wat ordentliches”

Vy Vincent
19 years
Berlin
selected with the texts
“Handwäsche”
“Mitarbeiterangebot”

Tarian Vogtmann
19 years
Hilchenbach (North Rhine-Westphalia)
selected with the texts
“Hinübergehen”
“wie ich paris beim träumen erfunden habe”
“Leerstellenoffenlegung”
“Ins Innere”
“á la carte”

Amely Wernitz
19 years
Michendorf (Brandenburg)
selected with the texts
“Einen Tag noch”
“Astralprojektion”
“Die Scheidung”