feeLit 2025: Matinee der Heidelberger Autorinnen und Autoren

From June 29 to July 12, feeLit - International Literature Festival Heidelberg will be hosting its authors at halle02 for the first time. This new festival venue will be all about books and writing. This year, feeLit presents national and international literary stars and brings authors together with their audience.

Matinee of the Heidelberg authors - The long morning of short texts

Moderation: Philipp Herold

A Sunday morning full of stories and thoughts: multifaceted, lively, surprising. Heidelberg authors open their books and hearts, give an insight into their work, share thoughts, dreams and stories.

Every quarter of an hour brings a new voice, a new work, new perspectives. The focus: published texts that want to be heard. Come, listen, discover!

Reading

belmonte Author and songwriter, born in Hamburg, lives in Heidelberg. Poetry debut prize 2008 from Pop-Verlag. Member of the organizing team of the Heidelberger Autor:innenpreis. Co-speaker of the authors of the UNESCO City of Literature Heidelberg. Publications include Was bleibt von uns, wenn das Wasser kommt (2025), Die Spinne (2023), Junas Lob (2018), Sitte und Sittlichkeit (2008) and numerous appearances as a songwriter.

Ralph Dutli, born in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) in 1954, studied Romance and Russian studies in Zurich and Paris (Sorbonne). He has become known as a poet, novelist, essayist, biographer, translator and editor of the works of the Russian-Jewish poet Ossip Mandelstam (1891-1938), about whom he wrote the internationally acclaimed biography My Time, My Animal. As a translator, he has also discovered and communicated previously unknown texts from the French and Occitan Middle Ages, such as the absurd, Dadaist-style fatrasias from the 13th century. He has also written cultural stories about olive trees, honeybees and gold, poetry cycles such as Novalis in the Vineyard and the novels Soutine's Last Voyage and The Lovers of Mantua, which have been translated into various European languages. His most recent volume of poetry was Alba (Wallstein 2024).

Barbara Imgrund was born in Landshut and grew up in the Allgäu; she studied German literature in Munich. She then worked as an editor for various renowned publishing houses. She has been a freelance editor, literary translator and writer since 1998 and has lived in Heidelberg since 2000. Inspired by her voluntary work in the hospice service and in animal welfare, her texts repeatedly deal with the question of how we humans survive the storms of life and what is really important to us at the end of the day. Barbara Imgrund is a member of GEDOK Heidelberg and Netzwerk Lyrik and has so far published a non-fiction book, five novels and a volume of poetry; her latest novel, Der Wurm, was published in spring 2025 and is a "passionate plea against fascism" (Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung).

Claudia Kiefer is an author, mainly a poet. Sometimes she also pops up in prose and social novels from time to time. She loves reading aloud, to small and large audiences, for young and old, gives writing and art courses at schools and elsewhere, organizes exhibitions and readings. If you look for her, she is probably sitting by a window with a view, on a train, writing, sitting in the middle of reading circles, looking at art or watching birds in the forest. Utopia, because she also has a bread-and-butter job - poetry alone is not enough to make a living. She feels most at home among free spirits when she is dancing, perhaps somewhere on the Elbe, the Neckar or the Seine. She extracts the essence from life and cooks up a poetic soup, a mixture of all kinds of herbs, pressed vines, birdsong, clouds, moon rocks, melancholy, secret ingredients and a little magic.

Sofie Morin born in Vienna in 1972, has lived near Heidelberg since 2003, graduated in animal behavioral research and human philosophy in Vienna. Heidelberg Author Prize 2023, erostepost Literature Prize 2024. Most recently published: Frauen lieben lernen, Dialoge mit 14 Autorinnen über historische kunstschaffenden Frauen, and Nachtschatten im Frauenhaarmoos. Phytopoetic Dialogues with Ulrike Titelbach in spring 2025.

ŞafakSarıçiçek was born in Istanbul in 1992 and grew up in Bochum-Dahlhausen and Istanbul. He studied biosciences and then law in Heidelberg and Copenhagen. He has been working as a lawyer since December 2024. He has written six volumes of poetry and prose since 2017. His awards include the 2021 Heidelberg Author's Prize, participation in the 2023 Klagenfurt Literature Course, the 2023 Hanns Meinke Prize for Young Poetry and the 2023 Baden-Württemberg Annual Scholarship for Literature. During the coronavirus pandemic, he was the city writer of Nanjing. He is a juror for the Förderkreis für Schriftsteller:innen in Baden-Württemberg, for the Hanns Meinke Prize and workshop leader for the writing competition for the 100th year of the Studienstiftung.

Miriam Tag is a poet, holds a doctorate in sociology and philosophy. Heidelberger Autor:innenpreis 2019, Merck scholarship holder of Textwerkstatt Darmstadt/Zentrum für Neue Literatur 2021, nominated for Lyrikpreis München 2021, Dresdner Lyrikpreis 2021, Lyrikpreis Meran 2024, Irseer Pegasus 2025. Multiple participation in exhibitions (Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, Museum Haus Sinclair). Artistic director of the Planetary Art Festival. Her first own poetry collection liebestier was published in 2023 by Aphaia, Munich.