Svenja Graefen

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Svenja Graefen (* 1990 in Daun ) is a German writer.

Act

She studied culture and media education at the Ludwigsburg University of Education . Since graduating, she has been working as a freelance writer, stage poet and workshop leader for creative writing. Since 2010, Gräfen has appeared in poetry slams and reading stages with prosaic and lyrical texts . In 2011 she reached the 4th place in the individual finals of the 15th German-speaking slam championships , which took place in the o2 World Hamburg . This was followed by appearances in the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie and at the Berlin Volksbühne . In addition, Graefen also works in the journalistic field, articles and essays by her have been published by Vice , Edition F and ze.tt among others . In April 2017 her debut novel Das Rauschen in Our Heads was published by Ullstein . In 2018 she was invited to the 22nd Klagenfurt literature course as part of the Days of German-Language Literature . Her second novel Freiraum was published in March 2019, also by Ullstein . Her texts have also been published in numerous anthologies and literary journals.

Svenja Gräfen lives and works in Leipzig .

Others

  • In 2012 the poetry clip Stillstand was created in collaboration with Maximilian Humpert . a. won the media prize of the TU Ilmenau and the 1st prize of the online literature competition Compete 20.12.
  • In 2014 Gräfen was the producer, director and screenwriter of the short film Thursday , which was presented at the short film festival "GIRLS GO MOVIE" as part of the 2015 German Film Festival .

Awards

Works

prose

Anthologies

  • Christian Helten, Mercedes Lauenstein (ed.): Lexicon of the good life: Everyone has questions - Jetzt.de has answers . Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition, 2013, ISBN 3-86497-115-2 .
  • Bas Böttcher, Wolf Hogekamp (Ed.): The Poetry Slam Primer: 20 Years of the Workshop of Language . Satyr Verlag, 2014, ISBN 3-944035-38-0 .
  • Nora Gomringer, Clara Nielsen (eds.): Volume is female: texts by 50 poetry slammers . Satyr Verlag, 2017, ISBN 3-944035-91-7 .
  • Özlem Özgül Dündar: Flexen: Flâneusen . Verbrecher-Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-95732-406-1 .
  • Karen Köhler (Ed.): Akzente 3/2019: Letters to the perpetrators . Carl Hanser Verlag, 2019, ISBN 978-3-446-26329-1 .

Web links

Itemized list

  1. ^ Feminism in the pot: Writing workshop at the RUB. Retrieved December 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Broadly: Two feminists and a drunk guy meet in a bar. Retrieved December 12, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Edition F: Let's talk about sex. Retrieved December 12, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Svenja Gräfen: Too gay to be straight: Why I don't want to constantly prove my bisexuality. In: ze.tt. Accessed March 30, 2020 (German).
  5. ↑ 22nd literature course program. June 4, 2018, accessed March 30, 2020 .
  6. ↑ The Millennial Dreams. Retrieved March 30, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Standstill on YouTube
  8. ↑ Thursday on Vimeo
personal data
SURNAME Graefen, Svenja
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Down