Whether it's a kebab shop, a bus stop with bullet holes, a women's pub, a former media hotspot or hipsterism: on 4 dates we will be looking at the area around Potsdamer Straße and its history. The aim is to look for and portray places here. There are no limits to creativity: a short story about a pub discussion, an interview with the owner of a Späti, a report about a street corner, a poem about Potsdamer Platz on the horizon, a series of photos with local residents. Participants can choose topics that they would like to approach in a literary or journalistic way in the workshop.
Together we will then organise a reading on 02 July in the Kunstraum Potsdamer Straße.
The workshop will take place on 4 Tuesdays (20 May, 27 May, 10 June, 24 June), from 6-8 pm.
Anna Raab is doing a Master's degree in European Literatures at Humboldt University. She is a freelance journalist, including for the weekly newspaper ‘der Freitag’. She also blogged for the literature competition ‘open mike’ and was editor-in-chief of the student newspaper ‘UnAufgefordert’. She moderates the monthly student literature event ‘LiesLos!’.
Sidney Kaufmann, assistant for literature at Kulturwerk Berlin. Currently M.A. Contemporary Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin. Participation in writers' programmes with Caca Savic, Monika Rinck, Lutz Seiler and Felicitas Hoppe. Assistant at Berlin theatres, editorial member of the ‘Literarische Blätter’ and freelance journalist for the taz.
