Auswärtslesung mit Maja Rieß, Ria Schöneberger & Marie Menke

In the organizer's words:

3 authors, 3 texts, 1 reading: Auswärtslesungen is a series of readings by KHM literary writing students. They want to step out of the art academy institution and into the city, create a shared stage and exchange ideas, share texts, read, listen and discuss. This time with us: Maja Rieß, Ria Schöneberger and Marie Menke. The moderators are Gabriel Kos and Maria Babusch. In the courtyard of the KHM's technology lending library - Filzengraben 18-24.

Maja Rieß, born in Freiburg in 2005, newcomer to Cologne. Has never spoken Baden, will never be able to speak Cologne, and yet takes so much pleasure in the diversity of language. With her writing, Maja wants to break down the infinity of the world into the smallest things: A grape seed, fluffy adhesive strips, and the sound made when fingernails scrape sand from the scalp. She has been doing this at the KHM since last year.

In her artistic practice, Ria Schöneberger deals with queer archive work, sex work and the politics of desire. She is the founder of the publishing house Angel Scum Press and art director of the magazine Backshots. Her reading performances have previously been shown at Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin), at Dyke Night (Witten) and at the 38th Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg).

Marie Menke, born in Sauerland in 1997, has been studying at the KHM since the winter semester and has since written mainly about package tours, algae and a black-headed sheep called Hilde. Before that, she studied politics, media and sociology in Bonn, Taipei, Cologne and Paris. Her short stories have won the OffSpring Award at lit.Cologne, among others.