Almost 400 young writers from all over Germany have applied for this year’s Treffen junger Autor*innen. Together with the jury, we would like to thank all the artists for submitting so many exciting, creative and touching texts.
The members of the jury now had the difficult task of making the final selection from the submissions.
Anastasia Averkova
20 years
Dresden (Saxony)
Selected with:
“Märtyrer:innen”
Henriette Bayer
21 years
Forst (Brandenburg)
Selected with:
“rote Beeren”
“fuck off / queer fear”
“Ni-Una-Menos Platz, 1090 Wien”
“Beine spreizen”
Sophia Becker
14 years
Ratingen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Selected with:
“Wenn Sterne Sport machen”
Moritz Busch
20 years
Potsdam (Brandenburg)
Selected with:
“SPINNE (V1)” (excerpt)
Anton Conrad
18 years
Sindelfingen (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Selected with:
“Ausgang”
Jellina Dettmer
13 years
Hamburg
Selected with:
“Gift ist grün, Miss Maisy ist Gift.”
Tim Dziarnowski
21 years
Munich (Bavaria)
Selected with:
“Winfried wie der Wind”
Oskar Eberhard
21 years
Berlin
Selected with:
“Frühling oder tausend Wege neu zu stagnieren”
“gute besserung ist ein oxymoron”
“Meine Algorithmen vermissen dich”
“Nie wieder”
“Elixier”
“Wiederbelebt”
“Form(-los)”
Helena Engel
17 years
Gersthofen (Bavaria)
Selected with:
“Studien”
Julian Sebastian Fröhling
20 years
Au bei Freiburg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Selected with:
“Betrachtungen”
Livana Hussein
14 years
Marburg (Hessen)
Selected with:
“Das Nachtwesen”
Lennart Kammler
20 years
Heidelberg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Selected with:
“Tag der offenen Gewalt”
Mily Meyer
20 years
Nürnberg (Bavaria)
Selected with:
“mythopoetic reflection”
“girl”
“kellerszene’
“adressat*innenorientiert”
“bewusstseinsorientiert”
“blaue sonne”
Tonda Montasser
12 years
Berlin
Selected with:
“Wiedererkennungs-Gegenwarten”
Franz Petitfils
19 years
Freiburg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Selected with:
“Strurestrus Gott”
Amelie Singla
21 years
Berlin
Selected with:
“Importexport”
Lilian Strub
21 years
Tübingen (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Selected with:
“Ich sehe nichts und tue alles”
Vy Vincent
21 years
Berlin
Selected with:
“Bonbons” (excerpt)
Fanny Marek Walger
20 years
Marburg (Hesse)
Selected with:
“seit zweitausendvier”
Freya Werner
15 years
Egling (Bavaria)
Selected with:
Poems (without title)
In their texts, the young authors deal with political issues, but also express their social anger. There are everyday observations that become a razor-sharp snapshot of the world, as well as many big, sad and heavy themes, which always remain free of kitsch and pathos thanks to a skillful choice of narrative perspective and craft. The texts deal with the human condition, questions of faith and God, martyrdom, death, suicide and trauma. Feminist freedom, reflections on assaults on women throughout history, queerness and transness are dealt with. The texts describe friendships across the generations and difficult or cruel parent-child relationships. It is spoken about monsters, threats to life and war. There are also bizarre scenes and unusual milieus, whether in the toilet cubicle of a shopping mall or at a dachshund race. The authors use satire, caricature and humour with relish and skill and take a warm look at human moments of failure.
Formally, the authors move between strict or idiosyncratic poetry, long poems, short prose, stories or dramatic-performative texts. On the one hand, they follow very strict forms, on the other hand they overcome these and create their own interesting formal frameworks with surprising vocabulary, unconventional use of punctuation, rhythm and phonetic language. They adopt exciting narrative perspectives, sometimes telling their stories clearly, then again in a convoluted and condensed way, contrasting everyday language with poetry. You can find wild changes in linguistic structures, at once comic-like and very personal. With energy and physicality, they jump freely through the time structures.
This year, for the first time, the jury is publishing the ‘longlist’ of the Treffen junger Autor*innen. On the longlist, the jury gathers remarkable authors from the interim selection with their texts, which they honour with this special mention. The authors on the longlist are invited to take part in a workshop discussion with jury members during the meeting in Berlin, either on site or digitally, in order to receive feedback and suggestions for their texts.
10 applicants on the longlist:
Johanna Bauer, 18 years, Duisburg (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Daria Tabea Herken, 20 years, Berlin
To Uyen Rose Hoang, 17 years, Munich (Bavaria)
Mattea Kessler, 20 years, Hamburg
Knut Kolckmann, 18 years, Essen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Raimo Dietrich Nagel, 17 years, Lübeck (Schleswig-Holstein)
Victoria Neuser, 20 years, Siegen (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Lara Schorer, 18 years, Waltenberg (Bavaria)
Angelina Schülke, 19 years, Freiburg (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Mark Schulze, 18 years, Straubing (Bavaria)
Mio Ziegler, 21 years, Berlin
Congratulations!
In addition, 20 other applicants will receive a book cheque as a sponsorship prize for their interesting and promising texts.
Congratulations to:
Philine Barth, 11 years, Berlin
Lillemor Becker, 11 years, Hillesheim (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Leni Bodens, 13 years, Brucköbel (Hesse)
Emily Bühler, 15 years, Gottenheim (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Lile Maria Camara Vaca, 11 years, Bremen
Bo Fritz, 12 years, Stuttgart (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Martina Jarosz, 17 years, Marburg (Hesse)
Jasmina Jarysz, 17 years, Berlin
Hanna Kath, 17 years, Hamburg
Jona Korbel, 13 years, Leimen (Baden-Wuerttemberg)
Marlene Lassau, 14 years, Bergheim (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Jonathan Lipp, 11 years, Hamburg
Ilektra Mandra, 11 years, Dusseldorf (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Marla Noack, 11 years, Sanitz (Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania)
Jacob Levi Rehberg, 12 years, Hamburg
Matilda Schneider, 14 years, Putzkau (Saxony)
Milena Sedlan, 12 years, Braunschweig (Lower Saxony)
Milena Trawny, 13 years, Hamburg
Mia Wagener, 16 years, Henstedt-Ulzburg (Schleswig-Holstein)
Mayra Rana Yildirim, 17 years, Bielefeld (North Rhine-Westphalia)