SCHWINDEL - Eine Premierenlesung der Buchstablerinnen

In the organizer's words:

We never cheat! Do you? No, are you? Where would we get there? So what you will hear this evening is nothing but the truth. 11 giddy female authors write about closeness, control and loss, about holding on and staggering when they let themselves fall.

One feels dazed before her routine in the arena, one surrenders to a trance while dancing; and another fibs to herself to make everyday life a little more bearable. Sometimes laconic, sometimes full of suspense, sometimes full of humor, the authors tell of their heroes; those who stumble here fall breathtakingly low - or discover their balance in the balance...

Incidentally, this evening was created on a drunken night. Maybe that's cheating. Or maybe not. A premiere to which we sincerely invite you!

Music: Felix Römer

Short biographies of the artists

Samyra Hachmann (*1993 in Bielefeld) is a German-Palestinian with German and Israeli citizenship. While studying geography and political science, she decided to devote herself not to solving the Middle East conflict, but to climate change. The outlook is bleak on both fronts - a good time to look for answers in stories.

Lina Hollinger, originally from Saarbrücken, has been in the Berlin dating game since 2020. After failing miserably at her goal of finding a man who isn't an ass, the last six years have now become art. She writes, plays and reads. She is also a cultural scientist and works with text and images.

Dana Rabea Jäger (*1992 in Duisburg) lives and works in Berlin. In her artistic practice, she explores femininity, the body and its objectification. Text work is both an independent form and part of her artistic work.

Jana Sepehr studied sociology, globalization and development policy in Kiel, Maastricht and San Diego. She has been working as a freelance journalist since 2015. Her texts often deal with justice, family, work, the meaning of life and truth and lies.

Mandoline Rutkowski is a freelance cultural journalist in Berlin. She studied journalism and political science in Hanover and Amsterdam - and rarely stayed in one place for long afterwards. In Amsterdam, she was a press representative for an environmental organization that occupied buildings, in Cape Town she hosted her own radio show, and in London she reported on British class society as a correspondent. She never let go of prose writing. She is currently working on her first novel.

Olga Leise, *1986 in Ukraine, studied linguistics and literature. Alongside her job in a social project, she is also studying psychology. She secretly plans her big literary coup, which fails not least because she rejects every attempt to write.

Hannah Schragmann is a philosopher, entrepreneur - and farm girl. Her writing, characterized by poetry and nature writing, has always been a way of entering into a relationship with the world: a groping, a searching, a weaving in. A visualization of secret threads.

Christine K looks inside herself while writing and finds parts of her life and soul that look European and West African. Are they really? CK disappoints herself with her autofictional narrative.

Alina Valerie Weinert, *1995 in Freiburg i. Br., completed a Bachelor's degree in Theater Studies & Philosophy at the FU and an acting diploma at the HfS "Ernst Busch"; this was followed by engagements at various municipal and state theaters. Her prose texts are regularly published in literary journals and have won several awards. In 2026, she has been invited to take up a writing residency at Künstlerhaus Salzwedel.

Sabine Schönfeldt studied German and Romance languages and literature in Hamburg and has lived as a freelance author in Berlin since 1999. She writes radio plays, dramas, short stories and is currently working on a novel. Her short story Old Mama & Little Child, which won the Nordost Literature Prize, was recently published in Trojanische Steckenpferde.

Amrei Wesinger (*1996) is a director and author. The main focus of her art is on being different in a feminist, queer and neurodivergent context.