Gift. Release-Lesung des Delfi Magazin

In the organizer's words:

Everything is poison, it just depends on the dose. Is poisonous literature the facilitation of freedom? Or is it simply honest? To mark the publication of the third issue of Delfi, the magazine for new literature, the editors invite you to readings and discussions on the current issue's theme: poison. Sharon Dodua Otoo, Leif Randt, Selma Kay Matter, Alvina Chamberland and Alexandru Bulucz will be reading, and the premiere of the short film "Tim" by Tyrell Otoo will also be celebrated. Hengameh Yaghoobifarah and Enrico Ippolito will moderate the event.

Delfi, the magazine for new literature, is published twice a year as a themed issue and brings together the most relevant international and German-language positions in prose, drama, poetry, essays and comics. The first two issues featured first publications by Ocean Vuong, Sayaka Murata, Sasha Marianna Salzmann, Daniel Schreiber and others. Delfi is edited by Fatma Aydemir, Enrico Ippolito, Miryam Schellbach and Hengameh Yaghoobifarah. Delfi No. 3 will be published on 29.8.

Sharon Dodua Otoo is a writer and political activist. Otoo won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2016 with the text "Herr Gröttrup setzt sich hin". Her first novel Adas Raum (S. Fischer Verlag, 2021) has been translated into several languages. In collaboration with the Ruhrfestspiele, she curates the black literature festival "Resonanzen".

Leif Randt, * 1983 in Frankfurt a. M., is the author of four novels and a feature film. His TransLit poetics lecture at the University of Cologne was entitled Alle fünf Jahre ein schmales Buch - extended. His fifth novel will be published in fall 2025.

Selma Kay Matter is an author and theater maker. Kay's work to date has focused on climate, the body, illness and queerness. Her debut Muscles of Plastic will be published by Hanser Berlin in fall 2024.

Alvina Chamberland is a Swedish-American writer and performance artist. She is the co-author of the book Allt som är Mitt: Våldtäkt, Stigmatisering och Upprättelse (Everything that belongs to me: Rape, stigmatization and reparation), which was published in 2015. Her novel Utelåst - Uppväxtnostalgi för freaks (Locked Out - A Nostalgic Account of Growing Up for Freaks), a parody of the coming-of-age genre, was published in 2018. Her English-language debut Love the World or Get Killed Trying has just been published. She lives in Berlin and Athens.

Alexandru Bulucz, * 1987 in Romania, then still the Socialist Republic of Romania, writes, reviews and translates poetry (from Romanian). He was most recently awarded the Deutschlandfunk Prize at the Days of German-Language Literature (2022). He lives and works in Berlin.

Tyrell Otoo is a British-German actor with experience in film, television, theater and audiobook productions.

Hengameh Yaghoobifarah is co-editor of Delfi and, together with Fatma Aydemir, published the highly acclaimed essay collection "Eure Heimat ist unser Albtraum" in 2019. In 2021, she published her debut novel "Ministerium der Träume" (Ministry of Dreams), which became a SPIEGEL bestseller. This was followed in 2023 by the collection of columns "Habibitus", which was shortlisted for the Kurt Tucholsky Prize. 2024 sees the publication of "Schwindel", Hengameh Yaghoobifarah's second novel.

Enrico Ippolito is co-editor of Delfi and author of the novel "Was rot war" (Kindler, 2021). Most recently, his short story "Hunde" was published in the anthology "Das Wetter - Buch für Text und Musik" (KiWi, 2023).

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