In the organizer's words:

Poets, authors, translators and friends will read from their latest texts. It's all about rope teams, care networks, love-and-work-life balance, motherhood & care, belonging & compassion, escape plans and new forms of friendly coexistence in times of crisis.

The Komplott meets in alternatingly warm dwellings in Leipzig, celebrating the birth of a poem in workshop discussions over finger food and cucumber soda. Once a year, they celebrate the festival of love together with friends and fans.

Ulrike Feibig lives and works in Leipzig as a freelance author and literary mediator whose literary texts are both published in print and performed on stage. One of her most recent publications, which deals with loneliness, is the beginning of the long poem "Die Schmuckeremitin hängt am Horizont ein paar bunte Wimpel auf", published in the volume "Brutti Sogni" (hochroth Leipzig 2025).

Ricardas Kiel ( ri/es), lives in Leipzig. Ricardas holds writing groups, tinkers with people on their websites and newsletters, sends weekly letters and publishes mini-essays in a digital garden, carves spoons in winter and swims in the lake in summer. Her most recent book of poetry was "Tante Alles" (hochroth Munich 2022).

Sibylla Vričić Hausmann writes poems, essays and prose. She studied at the FU Berlin and at the DLL in Leipzig, where she still lives. She is part of the hard core of the group and appreciates the artistic exchange, the personal conversations and snacking together at the highest level. Sibylla published the poetry volumes "3 Falter" (poetenladen) and "meine Faust" (kookbooks), received various scholarships and the prizes: "Orphil Debüt" for the first and "Clemens Brentano" for the second volume. She also works as an editor, lecturer and event organizer. In her poems, "connectedness", but also its opposite, being on the outside, being an outsider, play an important role.

Janin Wölke is an author, teacher and mother living in Leipzig. She was a finalist in the 2024 Meran Poetry Prize and received the 2024/2025 work grant from the German Literature Fund. Her poetry debut "was passiert wirklich, wenn wir stolpern?" (2014) was published by hochroth Berlin. In her dramatic and lyrical texts, she deals with questions of identity and socialization, care networks and gender roles. The long poem "unendlicher move" (Elif-Verlag 2025) was created as a collage of pop songs, Disney, Edmund Husserl, newspaper articles, Roland Barthes, children's language and Laurie Penny.

Martina Lisa lives as a freelance translator, author and cultural mediator in Leipzig. She translates Czech and Slovakian literature into German, reads, writes, publishes books and also likes to stage her own and other people's texts in various formats. Her most recent book was "Tage zählen" (Trottoir Noir 2022). She writes regularly for the city magazine kreuzer and is a member of the publishing collective hochroth Leipzig, VdÜ and Netzwerk Lyrik. In 2023-2025 she was a juror for the Susanna Roth competition for young translators from Czech.

Andra Schwarz is an author, editor and literary mediator in Central Germany. Most recently, she published the poetry collection "Tulpa" (poetenladen 2023) and the reading booklet "Meteor" (SuKuLTuR 2023) with poems about (Southern) Eastern Europe. She has received several scholarships, including at the Literary Colloquium Berlin (2018), MuseumsQuartier Vienna (2020), International Writers and Translators House Ventspils in Latvia (2021) and Edith-Stein-Haus, Wrocław in Poland (2024). In 2024/25 she was a writer-in-residence at the Villa Rosenthal in Jena. She is currently exploring representations of femininity in the visual arts.