Anthologie-Releaseparty „Vier Uhr morgens“

In the organizer's words:

There is a moment between night and day when both no longer mean anything. At four in the morning, dark silhouettes emerge against the dusky sky, the last bars close their doors, the first system-preserving people leave the house, clutching their coffee cups. At this time, the world is everything and nothing, reality seems far away and the surreal all too close.

The fiction anthology "Four o'clock in the morning" captures the unspoken thoughts, unseen people and half-awake dreams of this time.

To mark the release, the five authors Anna Wonde, Olga Schierhorn, Katharina Stein, Nadja Kasolowsky and Petra Lohan will read from their newly published texts. They will explore the emotions, worries and hopes that move us at four in the morning. "Vier Uhr morgens" is the fifth anthology of the #BerlinAuthors literary network. With regular networking events, readings and publications, the #BerlinAuthors are committed to creating low-threshold access to the literary world and connecting writers of all genres, origins and levels of experience.

Anna Wonde was born in Heidelberg in 1987. She spent her childhood and youth in rural Odenwald before studying linguistics and cultural studies in Heidelberg and Cologne. She lives in Berlin with her husband and their dog Effi and writes short stories as well as novels. Anna Wonde's interest in language, communication and literature has accompanied her since her youth and has influenced her career as a marketing specialist as well as her choice of studies. In addition to classic English literature with works by Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, her influences include contemporary literature by authors such as Margret Atwood, Jeffrey Eugenides, Emilia Hart and Sally Rooney.

Olga Schierhorn was born in Moscow / USSR in 1979, from where she fled to Germany with her father and mother. She has lived in Berlin for almost 30 years and has been a passionate writer all her life. She reads her texts, fairy tales and poems mainly at private events. Her first literary text was published by Quintus, followed by further publications by Stelling and Lorbeer. In November 2024, she was named winner of the Bonn Book Fair Migration Prize (3rd prize in the short story genre).

Katharina Stein writes short stories, poetry and everything in between in at least two languages. She has been a Berliner by choice since 2013 and co-founded the #BerlinAuthors network. She has self-published a short prose collection and a short story; other texts by her can be found in various anthologies and literary magazines. She also works as a freelance editor.
Insta: @lorem.ipsa

Nadja Kasolowsky was born in 1999 in East Frisia and lives in Berlin. She studied social and cultural anthropology and political science and writes fiction, literary fantasy and young adult. Her short stories have appeared in various anthologies and literary magazines. Since summer 2021 she is part of the leading team of #BerlinAuthors and co-editor of the anthologies.

Petra Lohan was born in 1967 and grew up in Karlsruhe. She lived in Stuttgart and Vienna for several years, where she devoted herself entirely to painting. She has been a Berliner by choice since 1995. Here she founded the Shiatsu room "Shiatsu im Türkis" and began to write. Today she works as a Shiatsu practitioner and author of short stories. She is a team member of the open reading stage SoNochNie in Berlin-Pankow. Her text "Das pinkfarbene Mädchen" was published in 2021 in the #BerlinAuthors anthology Großstadtgeheimnisse - Funkentanz am Dämmergrund.