STREET ART LESUNGEN mit Julienne De Muirier & Patrik Peyn

In the organizer's words:

Literary walk to the street art hotspots in Cologne-Ehrenfeld

🕰️ August 3, 3 pm
🏠 Meeting point: Lenauplatz, by the fountain

We're going on another tour to exciting street art locations in Cologne.

Each STREET ART READINGS tour features two authors who have taken a literary approach to individual works of art in public spaces.

Together with the authors Julienne De Muirier and Patrik Peyn, we will go from artwork to artwork on August 3 and listen to the texts directly on site in Ehrenfeld - in the middle of the city. Experienced street art guide Sascha Klein will provide information about the district and the artworks along the route.

About the authors:

Julienne De Muirier is a writer of prose and drama. She has written for theater productions at Theater Oberhausen, Residenztheater Munich and Hessisches Landestheater Marburg, among others. In her work, she deals with alienation, life in the diaspora and the self. Her prose has been published in magazines such as BELLA triste, Das NARR and defrag Zine . In 2022, she was part of the curatorial team for the volume NEUE TÖCHTER AFRIKAS and was shortlisted for the Wortmeldungen Förderpreis. In 2023, she wrote for the production blues in schwarz weiß at the Residenztheater and was awarded the Ruhr Literature Prize for her short story Nachtfahrt.

Patrik Peyn was born in the province of Lower Saxony sometime after the fall of the Berlin Wall and before September 11th. These major world-historical events did not shape his youth for the most part, but this is the time frame in which he grew up. More formative was and is the loneliness, the distance of some atoms from each other, sitting too far forward in the movie theater; driving as well as inhibiting factors of his work. Nevertheless: he writes & writes & writes. In 2024, he completed his studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. This year, he took first place in the Moor Literature Prize. His first volume of poetry "die leere in der orangerie" will be published this year by parasitenpresse.

The event series "Street Art Readings" is made possible by a grant from the Cologne Department of Culture. Thank you very much!