Wachsen im Verschwinden. Eine Lesung mit Ivana Sokola, John Sauter & Timm Völker im Rahmen der Museumsnacht Halle und Leipzig 2025.

In the organizer's words:

Visions of tomorrow meet the vanished of yesterday.

The proliferation of information that surrounds everyone at all times today is the focus of the three authors at the reading evening. The readers take different approaches:

With a radical departure from the now (John Sauter), through sensitive attention (Timm Völker) or a dreamlike, yet all the more concrete approach (Ivana Sokola).

The work of the three authors is united by the fact that they use glimmering language to approach a reality that perhaps cannot exist. The texts are performed partly in the classic spoken word and partly with the background of soundscapes and samples.

On this evening, Ivana Sokola (Felix Bloch Erben), John Sauter (VQ Azur) and Timm Völker (Gans Verlag) will read from current texts and publications - surrounded by evidence of past societies in the cast collection of the Antikenmuseum Leipzig. The readers will enter into conversation with each other between their text performances.

Space is limited, so please arrive early. Admission 19:30.

John Sauter will moderate the evening and discuss external and internal images, impressions and atmospheres with the authors. Present here are concepts such as the incomplete, the destroyed, the fragmentary, which are reflected in the collection of the Antikenmuseum.

About the authors:

Ivana Sokola, born in Hamburg in 1995, studied scenic writing at the Berlin University of the Arts. She writes theater, essays and journalistic texts for ZEIT and TAZ, among others. In 2020 she was invited to the festival 4+1 - Ein Treffen junger AutorInnen at Schauspiel Leipzig. In 2021, she was awarded the Kleist Prize for Young Playwrights for her play KILL BABY. Previously, she had already won the special prize of the German Children's and Youth Theater Award with KILL BABY. For her follow-up play PIRSCH, she was awarded the Autor:innenpreis of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt 2022. Together with Jona Spreter, she forms the author duo Sokola//Spreter.

John Sauter was born in Freiberg / Saxony in 1984, studied journalism and art history in Leipzig and language arts in Vienna. He lives as an author and musician ("Johnny Katharsis") in Leipzig. In 2019, he received the Startstipendium for Literature. In the same year, his poetic debut "Startrampen" was published by Edition fabrik.transit, Vienna. His first volume ZONE followed in 2021, published by VQ AZUR. With GEISTER, he published a powerful third volume of poetry in fall 2023. This was followed by STARTRAMPEN I + II in 2024.

Timm Völker, born and raised in Halle an der Saale in the late 1980s, lives and works as a janitor, musician and songwriter in Leipzig.
He tells stories from so-called everyday life. His first publication "Die Schwerkraft provozieren" was published by Gans Verlag in 2023.

Links to the artists:

Ivana Sokola
https://www.instagram.com/ivanasokola/

John Sauter
https://www.instagram.com/johnnykatharsis/

Timm Völker
https://www.timmvoelker.com/

Link to the collection:
https://www.gkr.uni-leipzig.de/antikenmuseum/sammlungen/gipsabguss-sammlung

Price information:

As part of the Museum Night Halle and Leipzig 2025