Short Story Long Festival. Kurze Texte vom großen Ganzen - Tag 2

In the organizer's words:

Readings, Party
Open air in good weather
With Helene Hegemann, Mel Berger, Julienne De Muirier, Matthias Nawrat

Helene Hegemann, born in 1992, lives in Berlin. She made her debut as an author in 2010 with the novel "Axolotl Roadkill", which has been translated into 20 languages. The film adaptation, which she directed herself, won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the 2017 Sundance Festival. Her most recent short story collection "Schlachtensee" was published in 2022.

Mel Berger, born in Vienna in 1994, studied economics and political theory at Lake Constance and in New York City and is currently studying film at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Mel received the WORTMELDUNGEN Förderpreis 2021 and the Startstipendium für Literatur des BMKÖS 2023. In her own literary and cinematic works, Mel deals with second natures in their mediation triad myths - commodities - algorithms.

Julienne De Muirier is a writer of prose and drama. In 2022 she was part of the curatorial team for the volume "Neue Töchter Afrikas" and was shortlisted for the WORTMELDUNGEN Förderpreis. In 2023, she wrote for the production "blues in schwarz weiß" at the Residenztheater, Munich, and was awarded the Ruhr 2023 Prize.

Matthias Nawrat, born in Opole/Poland in 1979, studied biology and then literary writing. He has published several novels and a volume of poetry. In 2024, the essay collection "Über allem ein weit Himmel - Nachrichten aus Europa" was published. He was recently awarded the European Union Prize for Literature and the Fontane Literature Prize of the city of Neuruppin and the state of Brandenburg for his books. He lives in Berlin.

With the kind support of the Crespo Foundation