Literaturklub: Reise nach Babylon mit Maria Babusch und Jennifer de Negri

In the organizer's words:

In Jennifer de Negri's (right) texts, a fragmentary self gropes for tenderness in the fragile, seeking connection to friends, places, idols, other species - and to herself. In the process, precarious forms of togetherness take center stage, which are created and questioned at the same time. Poems that form networks of distributed vulnerability and stand on the threshold of a new way of speaking. Maria Babusch (left) also deals with a new, apt language for writing about everyday life and identity, about family, soccer or new technologies.

Maria Babusch is an author, theater maker and presenter. She was invited to the auftakt festival für szenische texte in 2021 and developed a production for Schauspiel Dortmund as part of the Operation Memory collective. Her lecture performance HACKER AUF ESTRADIOL premiered in 2023 and was invited to FAVORITEN Festival 24, among others. Since 2023 she has been studying Literary Writing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

Jennifer de Negri publishes poetry and prose. In her work, she deals with questions about the we: from multiple perspectives, speculative, non-linear - and as a process that writes itself out of exclusions. Her poetry collection Triebe klimatischer Verhältnisse was published by Sukultur Verlag in 2021, followed byreise nach BABYlon (parasitenpresse) in 2025. She studied theater directing and postgraduate literary writing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. In 2024 she won the Irseer Pegasus. She has received other prizes and scholarships, including the INITIAL working scholarship from the Akademie der Künste, and was a finalist in the Open Mike and Literary March. In addition to her work as an author, she is co-initiator of the queer-feminist reading series [OHNE PRONOMEN].