SHORT STORY NIGHT im Filmhaus

In the organizer's words:

Five short stories by five authors

Moderator: Anna Kohn

The Short Story Night combines high-quality literary and exciting short stories with a relaxed atmosphere: Welcome to a special movie night at Cologne's Filmhaus!

We look forward to short stories by five wonderful authors:

Judith Keller, born in 1985 in Lachen, studied literary writing in Biel and Leipzig as well as German as a foreign language in Berlin and Bogotá. Her debut with short prose "Die Fragwürdigen" was published in 2017, followed by "Oder?" in 2021 by Verlag der Gesunde Menschenversand. Her novel "Wilde Manöver" (Luchterhand 2023) was awarded the Swiss Literature Prize 2024. Last September, her short prose book "Ein Tag für alle" was published again by Verlag der Gesunde Menschenversand. She lives in Zurich.

Miedya Mahmod. Born and lives in the Ruhr area. Spoken word artist and poet since 2016, also works as a curator and editor. Miedya Mahmod is co-editor of "LytterZine", the first illustrated magazine for poetry on Twitter, and took part in the poetry retreat on spoken word at the "LeseLenz" literature festival in Hausach. In 2022, Miedya Mahmod took part in the poetry workshop Open Poems at the Haus für Poesie (Berlin) and joined the artist collective "parallelgesellschaft". Mahmod is also part of the reading stage "Aufruhrgebiet - die revolutionäre Vorlesedemo" and won the jury prize at the 31st open mike in 2023. In 2024 he was narrowly eliminated from the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition, but was recently awarded this year's Förderpreis Ruhr.

Philip Krömer, *1988 in Amberg, lives as a freelance writer with his family in Erlangen. Previous books include "Ymir" (2016), "Ein Vogel ist er nicht" (2019) and "ErlangenNOIR" (2023). His second novel "Kumari" will be published by Septime Verlag in Vienna in 2025. He has received several awards for his literary work, including the audience award at open mike Berlin 2015 and the Nuremberg Culture Prize 2020. 2023 he was a Stifter scholarship holder in Horní Planá. Since 2021, he has also curated the reading program of the young literature festival book:ed.

ŞehnazDost is a freelance author and lives in Cologne. Her first novel ruh was published by Ecco Verlag in 2024, her short prose can be found in the magazines "Literarische Diverse" and "Yallah Salon" and in the anthology "Worte wie Honig". Şehnaz Dost has received several awards and grants for her work - most recently she was a fellow of the residency program "Aus der Ferne gesehen". In her texts, she explores the question of how a collective outside always also determines the individual, inner fractures - and is delighted when she can weave pop cultural references into this practice.

Nora Schramm, born in 1993 in the Southern Palatinate, studied foreign languages and cultural studies in Giessen and theories and practices of professional writing in Cologne. Her work has received several grants, and she was awarded the Textstreich competition prize for new poetry in 2022. Her debut novel Hohle Räume was published this year by Matthes und Seitz Berlin and was awarded the Kranichsteiner Literaturförderpreis.

The SHORT STORY NIGHT is supported by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne and the Kunststiftung NRW. Thank you very much for your support!