The "New Germans": Ronja Othmann and Deniz Utlu in conversation with Andreas Fanizadeh
MI 13.12, 19H ACUD Studio
Language: German
Price: free entrance
Ronya Othmann was born in Munich in 1993 and works as an author and journalist. She has received the MDR Literature Prize, the Caroline Schlegel Prize for Essay Writing, the Open Mike Poetry Prize, the Gertrud Kolmar Prize and the Audience Prize of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition, among others. She has been writing the column Import Export for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung since 2021. Her debut novel Die Sommer (2020), for which she was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize, and the poetry collection Die Verbrechen (2021), for which she received the Orphil Debut Prize and the Düsseldorf Poetry Debut Prize, were most recently published by Hanser.
Like the author Deniz Utlu, who was born in Hanover in 1983, Ronya Othmann has no biography of exile. Deniz Utlu founded the culture and society magazine freitext and studied economics in Berlin and Paris. His debut novel, Die Ungehaltenen, was published in 2014 (Graf Verlag). He published his second novel, Gegen Morgen, in 2019 (Suhrkamp Verlag). This fall, Deniz Utlu published his novel Vaters Meer. A grand narrative that shuttles back and forth between Turkey and Germany.
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Andreas Fanizadeh (born 1963 in St. Johann i.Pg., Austria) is head of the culture department of the taz in Berlin. Previously, he worked for Die Wochenzeitung in Zurich and ID Verlag in Berlin, among others. There he also co-edited the magazine Die Beute.