Literaturklub: Pilzgespinste und verschwindende Namen mit Jennifer de Negri und Maia Traine

In the organizer's words:

In "Mush Room", Cologne-based author Jennifer de Negri explores the fascinating world of mushrooms. Cologne-based translator Maia Traine will also be presenting the volume "Bis der Name verschwindet" by Colombian poet Catalina Garcés Ruiz. The evening will be hosted by Adrian Kasnitz.

Jennifer de Negri lives in Cologne and publishes poetry and prose. In her work, she deals with questions about the we: from multiple perspectives, speculative, non-linear, striving for interconnectedness - and as a process that writes itself out of exclusions. In 2021, her poetry collection Triebe klimatischer Verhältnisse was published by SUKULTUR Verlag. She studied theater directing and is currently studying postgraduate literary writing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. She has taken part in numerous festivals and workshops as a scholarship holder in various fields, including New Plays from Europe at the Staatstheater Wiesbaden. She has won prizes (most recently: Irseer Pegasus 2024 & Postpoetry.NRW 2022), was a finalist in renowned competitions such as Open Mike & Literarischer März and received the INITIAL scholarship from the Akademie der Künste, among others. In 2023 she was a fellow of the residency program at the Center for Literature - Burg Hülshoff Münster from May-June. Various publications in literary journals and anthologies, most recently in "Queer - nun reden wir" and "Parabolis Virtualis 2 - Neue, queere Lyrik". She is currently working on the completion of her second volume of poetry MUSH ROOM - Ein Pilzgespinst, in which she explores the fascinating world of mushrooms. In addition to her work as an author, she is co-initiator of the queer-feminist reading and discussion series [OHNE PRONOMEN] in Cologne.

Maia Traine, born in 1983, grew up in Cologne as the child of Argentinian parents. She studied philosophy, German studies, sociology and dance studies in Cologne and Berlin and has lived and worked in Colombia and Chile. Among others, she has translated Eugen Gomringer and Jan Wagner into Spanish. After Catalina Garcés Ruiz, her German translation of Sofía Sánchez will soon be published by parasitenpresse. She lives in Cologne.

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6,84 €