#Logoskop ten

Kirsten Fuchs lives in Berlin with her husband and children. She writes for “Das Magazin” and has published various novels, short story collections and plays. Fuchs has been active in various reading stages, and currently reads at “Fuchs & Söhne” and “Des Esels Ohr.” In 2015, she was awarded the Brothers Grimm Prize of the State of Berlin, and in 2016, the Kassel Prize for Comic Literature and the German Youth Literature Prize for her novel “Mädchenmeute” (Rowohlt Berlin).

Bas Böttcher is one of the co-founders of the German-language spoken word scene. He studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and has lived in Berlin since 2000. His texts are considered exemplary for contemporary stage poetry. They appear in school textbooks (Schroedel, Cornelsen, Klett) and important collections of German poetry (Der Neue Conrady, Lyrikstimmen, etc.).

He also published the three volumes of poetry “Dies ist kein Konzert”, “Neonomade” and “Vorübergehende Schönheit” with the publishing house Voland & Quist. Bas Böttcher has performed in the great hall of the Elbphilharmonie and at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris), as well as at the book fairs in Beijing, Guadalajara, Moscow, São Paulo and Bangkok.

Bas Böttcher is the inventor and programmer of various media formats for poetry. He developed the electronic hypertext Looppool as a new form of expression on the Internet. He has taught at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig, the German Literature Archive in Marbach, the Cultural Academy of Baden-Württemberg, the University of the Arts in Berlin, and Goethe Institutes worldwide.