Jury - Berlin Stories

Antonia Augsbach, Mariusz Hoffmann and Clara Fiedler form the jury for the 2024 selection round.

Giew Taylessani
The black and white image shows Antonia Augsbach, a young woman with shoulder-length hair in a training jacket. She has her arms crossed over her chest and is looking firmly into the camera.

Antonia Augsbach

Antonia Augsbach, born in 1999, grew up near Munich, lives and studies philosophy in Berlin. If not in the library or in the university café, you can meet her between Soldinerstraße and Leopoldplatz. 

Lionel Kreglinger
The image is a black and white photo of Mariusz Hoffmann, a man with a short, well-groomed beard and a white shirt with suspenders. He looks into the camera.

Mariusz Hoffmann

Mariusz Hoffmann was born in Poland in 1986. He studied philosophy in Hamburg, later creative writing and cultural journalism as well as literary writing and editing in Hildesheim. In 2019 he was a participant in the Jürgen Ponto Foundation's writing workshop. In 2023, Mariusz Hoffmann's debut novel "Polnischer Abgang" was published by Berlin Verlag. He was awarded the Alfred Döblin scholarship for work on his next book. In addition to his work as an author, Mariusz Hoffmann also teaches creative writing at the Schreibhain Author School.

M. Schulte / stW Berlin
The photo shows Clara Fiedler, a young woman wearing a patterned blouse. She looks at the camera with a slight smile. The image is black and white.

Clara Fiedler

Clara Fiedler, born in 1994, is studying MA English Literatures. In addition to her studies, she is the student assistant for the literature department at kulturwerk Berlin and, among other things, organizes and moderates the reading series Lies los! Her texts have appeared in turtle magazine, among others. 

Elisabeth Pape, Alexander Gumz and Clara Fiedler form the jury for the 2023 selection round.

Elisabeth Pape

Elisabeth Pape is the town clerk studierendenWERK BERLIN for the second half of Berlin Stories 2022. She is in the 15th year of dramatic writing at the University of the Arts. Her plays ran as part of the Wild Growth Festival at the Volksbühne and the Theaterdiscounter Berlin. She not only writes theater texts, but also prose miniatures, tries her hand at poetry and has recently been passionate about scriptwriting. 

Photo: Dirk Skiba

Photo: Dirk Skiba

Alexander Gumz

born in 1974, is an editor and organizer at KOOK eV and for the poesiefestival berlin. Co-founder of the literature and music night "HAM.LIT" in Hamburg, the poetry night "Teil der Movement" in Leipzig and Frankfurt/Main and the literature festival "Wortgarten" in the Uckermark. His latest collection of poems “Barbarians Expect” was published by kookbooks in January 2018.

Photo: Michael Schulte / stW BERLIN

Photo: Michael Schulte / stW BERLIN

Clara Fiedler

born 1994, studied MA English Literatures. In addition to her studies, she is the student assistant for the literature department and, among other things, organizes and moderates the book club and the reading series Lies Los!