In the organizer's words:

You're in a cab in Amsterdam, but strangely you have to drive yourself while the cab driver sits next to you. An acquaintance from the Internet hugs you at home, you feel safe again for a long time, but then your husband comes up the stairs with the children - everything disappears and you wake up. Wolfram Lotz has searched for dreams on European Internet forums and translated them into his very own literary stories. They are strange, funny dreams that always seem very familiar - because they are the dreams of real people and because the world we live in is really quite strange. At the Leipzig premiere, Wolfram Lotz will read passages from his new book and be available to talk to the audience. Moderation: Insa Wilke.

Wolfram Lotz studied literature, art and media studies at the University of Konstanz and then literary writing at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. He became known in 2011 with his first two plays: He was awarded the Kleist Prize for "Der große Marsch" (The Great March) and for "Einige Nachrichten an das All" (Some Messages to Space), which was also performed at many theaters in German-speaking and European countries, he was voted "Young Author of the Year" in Theater heute's critics' poll. He was voted "Playwright of the Year" in 2015 for his play "Die lächerliche Finsternis". Other works include "Das Massaker von Anröchte" (2021) and "Heilige Schrift I" (2022). The literary scholar Simon Hansen classifies Wolfram Lotz's work to date as "narrative text theater": according to Hansen, Lotz's dramas, which are literally impossible to stage, are characterized, among other things, by a radical potentiation of the epicization techniques coined by Bertolt Brecht. (Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfram_Lotz)

Insa Wilke studied German and history in Göttingen, Rome and Berlin. Since 2013, she has been one of the presenters of the weekly book program Gutenbergs Welt on the cultural program WDR 3. Since 2015, she has also hosted the Neue Darmstädter Gespräche at the Staatstheater Darmstadt. Since 2016, Wilke has been the program director of the Mannheim literature festival lesen.hören. She is also a member of the jury for the SWR best list and was a permanent member of the "SWR lesenswert Quartett" together with Denis Scheck and Ijoma Mangold from 2017 to 2024. She was a member of the juries for the Peter Huchel Prize, the Italo Svevo Prize and the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. From 2018 to 2023, Insa Wilke was a member of the jury for the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, from 2021 to 2023 as jury chairwoman. She writes literary criticism for the Tagesspiegel, Die Zeit and the Süddeutsche Zeitung, among others. From 2022 to 2024, she chaired the jury for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. (Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insa_Wilke)

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