Nahaufnahme 2025

For over thirty years, the meeting has honoured exceptional writing talent between the ages of 11 and 21. These are selected by a jury from a large number of applications. They often already demonstrate an awareness of the possibilities of language and a love of experimentation, which often leads to the young talents choosing writing as their professional perspective. They work on their first major writing projects and publish their texts in anthologies, magazines and on the Internet.

The chronicle of the Treffen junger Autor*innen lists a number of writers whose texts and books have been published by renowned publishing houses. The aim of the close-up is to support the young authors in their writing and on their way to a professional writing existence.

During the Nahaufnahme, participants work with experienced authors on their own texts and share their personal views and experiences of the writing process.

Moritz Busch, Lennart Kammler, Lilian Strub

As part of the LeipzigBook Fair and in cooperation with the lyrixnational competition, three authors from the ninth year of Nahaufnahme will present their texts at the Long Leipzig Reading Night and at the Deutschlandradio stand. 

Lilian Strub, Lennart Kammler and Moritz Busch from the 39th year of the Treffen junger Autor*innen will take part in a writing workshop with Hieu Hoang in Leipzig and will be prepared for their readings in a speech and reading training session with Alice Lovis Planz. Kristin Höller and Yevgeniy Breyger will give a guided tour of various prose and poetry publishing houses at the fair and Martina Wunderer and Carl-Christian Elze will talk about starting a career in literature. 

Long Leipzig Reading Night: 27 March 2025, 18:00 in the Moritzbastei Leipzig
Leipzig Book Fair reading: 29 March 2025, 12:00, Messe Leipzig Hall 2 Stand H401