Premiere Probsthayn und vier andere Prosaist*innen

In the organizer's words:

Reading:

Anja Finger, born in Hamburg in the 70s.
Works closely with people and sometimes even closer to the text.

Publications in various anthologies.
The audio book "Teer" was recorded by Anna Thalbach.

Most recently, "Das Düsseldorf Gesicht" was published by Literatur Quickie Verlag 2025.
Christoph Danne
born 1976 in Bonn, lives in Cologne. He studied literature and linguistics in Berlin and Salamanca. In addition to contributions to anthologies and magazines, his poetry collection finderlohn (2011) was published. Danne organizes the poetry evening HELLOPOETRY! and the literary stage gegenlichtlesen in Cologne. He also runs the tauland-verlag publishing house. In 2013, he was awarded the audience prize Bachmannpreis für alle (Literatur-Atelier Köln) and the postpoetry.NRW poetry competition. His poetry collection "Shooting Stars" was published by ELIF VERLAG in 2015.
Claire Walka
was born in 1978 and works as an author and filmmaker. She studied film and media in Offenbach and Barcelona. In addition to her work as an editor, she publishes short stories and poetry and is a member of the Forum Hamburger Autorinnen und Autoren and the Writers' Room.

Gero Beckmann

(*1988, Bad Oldesloe) Bookseller in Segeberg, theater maker in Berlin with the theater collective Girl to Guerilla and in Hamburg in cooperation with the Platt pop group "Die Tüdelband", as well as a member of the reading stages "Poems op Platt" and "Neuer Lesestoff".
Lou A. Probsthayn
Born in 1960, fled from the capital of the GDR to Hamburg at the age of three months. He still lives and works in the Elbe metropolis. He became known through various books, such as "Lachgas im Airbag" (Piper) or "Dumm gelaufen" and "Die Welt ist Hund" (Achilla Presse). He received the Hamburg Literature Prize for "Müll" (yedermann Verlag). His short story collection "Sitzerei auf Waschbeton" (Michason & May) was supported by several working grants.
He is a co-founder of the "Forum der Dreizehn" and the Hamburger Dogma, founded the legendary reading series Literatur Quickie together with Gunter Gerlach in 2007, and two years later founded the publishing house of the same name, which exclusively publishes short stories. He still publishes and organizes events today and still keeps up his writing on the side.