LEIPZIG LIEST: Beste Erste Bücher - Ein großer Abend der Romandebüts

In the organizer's words:

A great success at the Literary Autumn for years and now for the first time in spring in cooperation with the Leipzig Book Fair: Six particularly promising debut novels will be read at the Ost-Passage Theater. When making the selection, we made sure to include as wide a range as possible - in terms of the authors, style, themes and settings of the books: Aria Aber will be reading from "Good Girl" (Claassen), Kathrin Bach from "Lebensversicherung" (Voland & Quist), Annegret Liepold from "Unter Grund" (Blessing), Ricarda Messner from "Wo der Name wohnt" (Suhrkamp), Christian Mitzenmacher from "Knallkrebse" (Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt) & Mascha Unterlehberg from "Wenn wir lächeln" (Dumont).
The whole thing will be hosted by the congenial podcast duo Josef Braun & Linn Penelope Rieger ("Wasser und Buch"). Anyone interested in the voices of tomorrow should keep this evening free - and get tickets quickly.

Homepage: https://www.deutsches-literaturinstitut.de/



Aria Aber was born and raised in Germany and currently lives in Los Angeles. Her first poetry collection "Hard Damage" (2019) won the Prairie Schooner Prize. A former Stegner Fellow, 2020 Whiting Award recipient, and current PhD candidate at USC, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, The Yale Review, Narrative & POETRY, among others.

Kathrin Bach, born in Wiesbaden in 1988, studied Literary Writing in Hildesheim and is a trained bookseller. Her poetry debut "Schwämme" was published in 2017, her second volume of poetry "Gips" in 2024 (both parasitenpresse). Her work on her novel project "Lebensversicherung" (Life Insurance) earned her a residency scholarship for literature at Künstlerhaus Lauenburg in 2022. She lives as a freelance author and editor in Berlin, where she also regularly glues collages and holds writing workshops.

Annegret Liepold, born in Nuremberg in 1990, studied comparative literature and political science in Munich and Paris. She received numerous awards for her debut novel Unter Grund, including a literary scholarship from the City of Munich and an invitation to the 15th Writing Workshop of the Jürgen Ponto Foundation and the Novel Workshop of the Literaturforum im Brecht-Haus Berlin. In 2022 she was a finalist in the open mike. She works for the "Bavarian Academy of Writing" at the Literaturhaus München.

Ricarda Messner, born in 1989, is co-founder and editor of Flaneur Magazin, which is dedicated to one street in a different city per issue and has won several awards. Wo der Name wohnt is her debut novel, for which she received the Alfred Döblin Scholarship. She lives and works in Berlin.

Christian Mitzenmacher was born in 1986 and grew up in Bad Buchau, Upper Swabia. He is a mathematician, did research at the Technical University of Munich and the M.I.T. in Cambridge and completed his doctorate in Operations Research. He was a fellow of the Bavarian Academy of Writing (2014), a finalist at the 24th open mike (2016) and a fellow of the LCB Author's Workshop Prose 2019 with the novel manuscript "Knallkrebse". He lives in Berlin.

Mascha Unterlehberg, born in Mülheim an der Ruhr, studied literature and art history in Freiburg and Paris as well as at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. She has worked in theaters in Germany and Switzerland, was a finalist in the 27th open mike and took part in the literature course in Klagenfurt in 2023 with 'Wenn wir lächeln'.



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Price information:

08 Euro = No coal ticket 10 Euro = Normal price 10 Euro = Promotional ticket for the "No coal" ticket