Juli Katz: »Von Hühnern und Fahnen«

In the organizer's words:

A professional chicken farmer who is no longer a professional chicken farmer has to figure out what to do with his life - this is the origin of the story by writer and journalist Juli Katz, with which she won the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 2024 Literature Prize. In 2025, she is on a reading tour through MV and stops off in Rostock. Here she will be reading texts from and about Western Pomerania with Rostock author and literary editor Steffen Dürre. Katz and Dürre talk about writing and where you go when you set off.

Juli Katz, born in 1990, studied Creative Writing and Cultural Journalism as well as Applied Literary Studies. She came to Greifswald in 2019 to help set up KATAPULT magazine and works as a freelance journalist and author in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. She now writes for regional and national media. She also stayed in the state because of her dog and chicken.