Georg-Büchner-Preis 2025: Ursula Krechel in Lesung und Gespräch

In the organizer's words:

November 12, 2025 / 7.30 pm / Literature Café

Georg Büchner Prize 2025

Ursula Krechel in reading and conversation

The German Academy for Language and Poetry is awarding the Georg Büchner Prize 2025 to the writer Ursula Krechel. She is an author "who, in her poems, plays, radio plays, novels and essays, counters the devastation of German history and the hardening of the present with the power of her literature. ... The theme of self-assertion, rediscovery and further development of female authorship runs as a common thread through her entire oeuvre. ... Ursula Krechel's work encourages readers to find traces of the past in the everyday life of the present and not to accept the here and now of German society as it is" (from the jury statement).

Ursula Krechel, born in Trier in 1947, studied German language and literature, theater studies and art history in Cologne, worked as a dramaturge at the Städtische Bühnen Dortmund and made her debut in 1974 with the play "Erika". To this day, she works as a "chronic lane changer" in the literary genres of poetry, epic and essay writing. The themes of flight, exile, violence and feminism have been present in her work from the very beginning. In 2025, Klett-Cotta published the novel "Sehr geehrte Frau Ministerin" - which focuses on four women in antiquity and the present whose lives are shaped by the violence they have suffered and experienced - and the volume "Vom Herzasthma des Exils" (2025).

Admission: 10,- / 7,- EUR

Event organized by Literaturhaus Leipzig e.V.

Price information:

Disabled persons and their accompanying person (only if entered in the disabled pass), unemployed persons, pupils and students (up to 35) as well as holders of the Leipzig Pass or an honorary pass are entitled to a discount).