Das Traumschiff: Literarische Lesung über Träume und Kopfkino

In the organizer's words:

What do writers actually dream about? The Dreamboat reading series is dedicated to this question - literally. Three authors read from their personal dream diaries or from dreams that have become text and provide insights into the most intimate abysses and messages of their - and the collective - subconscious.

Idea and organization: Maik Gerecke.

Moderation: Rick Palm

Christian Lange Hausstein, author and lawyer, born in 1983 in East Berlin, is doing his doctorate in legal theory at the FU Berlin. Christian's prose appears in journals and anthologies, most recently the story Teilzeitmänner published by Diogenes Tapir in 2025. Between fall 2025 and summer 2026, the literary journal manuskripte will publish his three-part essay series on fundamental questions of AI use in literature: from the lack of copyright in machine products to the remuneration of authors for AI training to generative storytelling as a new genre. As a lawyer, he was a member of an expert group of the EU Commission for Innovation and publishes on digitization issues (trade journals, Spiegel Online, brand eins, re:publica).

Daniel Klaus was born in Wiesbaden in 1972 and grew up in Niedernhausen am Taunus. After long stays abroad in Paris and Istanbul, he now lives in Berlin. He writes light-footed columns for the taz newspaper and publishes a wide variety of texts in literary magazines and anthologies. His literary works have received several awards, including the Walter-Serner-Preis, the Literaturförderpreis Ruhrgebiet and the Alfred-Döblin-Stipendium der Berliner Akademie der Künste. For his recently completed novel project 'Light and Despair', he received a research grant from the Berlin Senate Administration. Together with Klaus Esterluss, he founded the reading series "Für Immer Bärbel" in 2025.

More about the author at www.danielklaus.com

Klaus Esterluss was born in 1978 in the outskirts of East Berlin and grew up in one of these satellite towns on the outskirts of the city. He studied without a goal and ended up in journalism very early on. First radio, later television, even later online and social media. Klaus has always spoken a lot in front of cameras and has been writing for at least as long. But mainly for himself - poems, observations, fragments. Language, melody and rhythm are important to him, sometimes more important than the actual story. Around 2012, Klaus got to know Daniel as a neighbor and rediscovered his courage to write. From then on, literary works were regularly published in anthologies and magazines. Klaus currently writes mainly short texts alongside his work. He runs a channel on Instagram and TikTok where he presents political and pop-cultural non-fiction and comics that he reads in order to constantly broaden his horizons.

Klaus founded the reading series Für Immer Bärbel together with Daniel in 2025.

Rick Palm (under 30) collects mini keyboards, raps about dreary bureaucracy, studies philosophy and sociolinguistics at the FU Berlin and has no other capitalistically valuable interests. So his bread-and-butter job as a freelance illustrator and lecturer and his penchant for co-organizing and moderating literary events (independent scene!) are obvious. Naturally, he co-hosts a podcast, which is currently on ice. He writes poetry and short prose. So far, Rick has been able to protect himself from prizes and publishing by means of a lack of commitment.

Rick knows all about dreams, because he has them. He loves the sound of them bursting.