Street Art Lesungen mit Yannic Han Biao Federer & Toi Tautorus

In the organizer's words:

Let's go to Kalk! The street art readings will take you to the most exciting street art locations in Cologne-Kalk. We will make stops at historically interesting places along Kalker Hauptstraße.

The two authors Toi Tautorus and Yannic Han Biao Federer live in the neighborhood and have written literary texts about places along the route. We will hear the resulting texts directly on the spot - in the middle of the city. Experienced street art guide and city guide Sascha Klein will provide information about the district and the works of art we encounter along the way.

The tour will take about two hours and end at the ELK - the European Literature Festival Cologne-Kalk.

Toi Tautorus (*1999) comes from the Ruhr area and lives in Cologne. In literature, installations and performances, she deals with queerness, the end of the world and questions of victimhood and perpetration. After studying Media Cultural Studies and Philosophy in Cologne and Rome, Toi is now studying Media Arts at the Academy of Media Arts. Prose by Toi Tautorus has appeared in numerous magazines. Toi Tautorus is currently working on her first novel.

Yannic Han Biao Federer lives and works as a freelance author in Cologne and has received numerous awards, including the Rolf-Dieter Brinkmann Scholarship from the City of Cologne in 2017, the Wuppertal Literature Biennale Prize 2018 and the 3sat Prize 2019 as part of the 43rd Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt. He made his debut with the novel Und alles wie aus Pappmaché in 2019 with Suhrkamp Verlag, where his second novel Tao was published in 2022, which was awarded the Bayern 2-Wortspiele-Literaturpreis; in the same year, he was awarded the Förderpreis für junge Künstlerinnen und Künstler by the North Rhine-Westphalian state government. He writes reviews for Deutschlandfunk Büchermarkt and radio essays for WDR and SWR radio. He is a member of PEN Berlin and the Young College of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts. In 2023, his play Drive in was nominated for the Retzhofer Dramapreis and praised by the jury, and he received the Hans Gratzer Scholarship from the Schauspielhaus in Vienna with the play fragment Asiawochen.

Meeting point: Kalker Hauptstraße 38, at the S-Bahn station Trimbornstraße, exit Kalker Hauptstraße, near the steam engine

This event is supported by the Cultural Office of the City of Cologne as part of the Open Air Fund. Thank you very much!