Panel with Fatima Khan & Mithu Sanyal, Julie Schöttner & Sabrina Janesch
Mentoring-Programm 1:1
Reading lecture and talk Talks & Workshops Place to be
Especially at their career outset, writers need support. They need encouragement as much as a confident and critical view of their work, advice on artistic and practical issues. The 1:1 mentoring programme offered by Bonn and Düsseldorf Literaturbüros provides the right framework for all of this: For the duration of one year each, an experienced, renowned author works together with an up-and-coming author.
On this evening, the two 1:1 teams of the year 2024, Fatima Khan & Mithu Sanyal and Julie Schöttner & Sabrina Janesch will report on their collaboration, on the development of the respective writing projects and on all questions and topics related to writing and the literary business that have arisen over the course of the year. Of course, there will also be reading!
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Sabrina Janesch, born in 1985 in Gifhorn, Lower Saxony, in 1985, studied Cultural Journalism in Hildesheim and Polish studies in Krakow. In 2010, her debut novel „Katzenberge“ was published, which subsequently was awarded various prizes, among them the Mara Cassens Prize and the Anna Seghers Prize. She held a sLedig House scholarship in New York and was a Danzig writer-in-residence. She currently lives with her family in Münster.
Fatima Khan was born in Bhola (Bangladesh) in 1987 and grew up in Cologne. The freelance author, artist, curator and presenter studied Ancient Languages and Cultures, Classical Literature and German Studies at the University of Cologne. In 2018, she was the initiator and co-founder of „q[lit]*clgn“, the first feminist literature festival in Germany. Since 2022, she has been studying Media Arts / Literary Writing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and is working on her debut novel.
Julie Sophia Schöttner, born in Giessen in 1995, studied German language and literature in Leipzig and co-founded the Apropos reading stage. She has been living in Cologne since 2020, currentlx studying literary writing and film at the Academy of Media Arts. She mainly writes short prose. She has published texts in the anthologies of the OVAG Youth Literature Prize, the Literature Forum Hesse-Thuringia, the WORD. magazine and the KURZE. In 2019, she was nominated for the hr2 Literature Prize.