GIRL, SHOW ME THAT BODY (OF WORK):
FLINTA* LITERATURE NIGHT #1

Date: 27 April 2025, 20:00h

Place: Lettrétage, Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin

Admission: free

Event language: English

Moderation: Ioana Cristina Casapu

Focus and themes: Experiences of violence against women, fleeing femicide and war, being queer as a woman and being a stranger in a new country. Authors will read from their texts and talk about sexual violence, sexual identity, gender politics and the struggle for a self-determined life.

Cemre Nur Öztürk founded the international women’s writing community “Women Writers’ Oasis” in Berlin. She organizes monthly writing workshops and has published a short story in the book “Station to Station”, which won the Thalia Storyteller 2024 Top Berlin Local Story Award. 

Shlomit Lasky was born in Israel and has lived in Berlin since 2010. She works as a journalist, tour guide specializing in Jewish heritage and as a speaker for Deutsche Welle. She is currently developing a one-woman show entitled “My Pleasure.”

Fionnuala Kavanagh is an author and journalist from the UK. She writes on topics such as sex work, identity and unemployment. Her larger projects include a novel about an integration course in Berlin and a series of interviews about intimacy. She is currently working on a collection of essays exploring why young people are radicalized by the far right. 

Noemi Veberič Levovnik is a queer interdisciplinary artist from Slovenia who works in the fields of poetry, performance, drawing, installation, video and sound. Her feminist works have been shown many times, including at MSUM (Museum of Contemporary Art of Slovenia), Galerie A+A and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Her texts are published in “Nothing Personal?! Essays on Affect, Gender and Queerness” (b_books, Berlin, 2023), her poetry debut will soon be published by Black Box in Slovenia. 

GIRL, SHOW ME THAT BODY (OF WORK):
FLINTA* LITERATURE NIGHT #2

Date: 21 June 2025, 20:00h

Place: Lettrétage, Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin

Admission: free

Event language: German

Moderation: Magda Birkmann

Focus and topics: Authors born in Germany or who moved to Germany before 1989. Emotional inheritance and transgenerational trauma.

How does literature create new forms of expression in German as “adoptive” language? How can we build a community in a new country? How do we reconcile our past with our future? How can we use literature as a tool for resistance and empowerment?

Jacinta Nandi has been living in Berlin since 2000. She is a single mother of two sons and a bitter, angry but sometimes also funny feminist. In 2023 she took part in the Bachmann competition, and in 2024 her last book, 50 Ways to Leave Your Husband, published by Nautilus, was developed into a play for the Paderborn Theatre. Her next book, Single Mom Supper Club, is due to be published in June 2025.

A.A. Winterfeld is a Berlin-based writer and artist who explores the transformative potential of literary and visual forms of expression. In her writing, she deals intensively with overcoming transgenerational trauma. In doing so, she opens up new perspectives and creates spaces for change and self-empowerment. Her works are multi-layered explorations of the past and present – a powerful expression of resistance, transformation and hope. She is currently working on the completion of her first novel.

Maria Bidian is an author and video producer, working behind and in front of the camera. She studied creative writing in Hildesheim and Comparative Literature and Philosophy in Mainz. Maria lives in Berlin and a small village in Romania, where she is renovating an old farm house together with her family. “Das Pfauengemälde“ (2024) is her first novel.

Mara Genschel works on a concept of literature that encompasses more than just the classic “book.” The performativity of her texts unfolds both in special publication concepts and in conscious encounters with the audience. In addition to many other publications and interdisciplinary works, the radio play Utopische Dialoge (SWR2) and a collection of performative short stories Midlife-Prosa (Engeler Verlag) appeared in 2024. In 2024, she gave the Hildesheimer Poetikvorlesung as a lecture performance. Since the winter semester 24/25, she has been teaching and researching as an artistic-scientific assistant at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.

GIRL, SHOW ME THAT BODY (OF WORK):
FLINTA* LITERATURE NIGHT #3

Date: 19 September 2025, 20:00h

Place: Lettrétage, Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin

Admission: free

Event language: English

Moderation: Elsye Suquilanda

Focus and topics: Single women and mothers abroad. Gender equality and equity, reproductive rights, motherhood, alternative family forms.

This event will address the challenges and freedoms of single migrant women. Is being a single woman a burden or the ultimate freedom? What is the reality of raising a child alone or in a collective? How do single mothers and single, childfree women cope with higher costs and taxes in a couple-oriented system? How can society better support those who choose alternative family structures?

Yael Haskal is a writer and performer based in New York/Berlin. She is an ensemble member of the New York Neo-Futurists and La MaMa’s Great Jones Repertory Company. Her award-winning plays have been performed at theatres across the U.S. and residencies abroad, including La MaMa, The Tank, IRT, and the Echo Theater. As an actor, she performs internationally with Great Jones Rep and the New York Neo-Futurists, and was nominated for a 2023 Broadway World Award.

Nadiia Telenchuk is a poet and translator, born in Kherson, Ukraine, who now lives and works in Berlin. She is active in the Berlin literary scene and a member of the National Writers Union of Ukraine (since 2013). She volunteers for the Ukrainian diaspora and organizes the monthly Ukrainian poetry salon Lit.О! Her works have been published in regional, national, and international publications. She has four published poetry books: Нова інтерпретація дощу (Die neue Interpretation des Regens, 2011), Щастя в обгортці (Eingewickeltes Glück, 2012), Ніжна (Sanft, 2014), Дихай (Atme, 2019).

Ruby Russell is a writer from London, based in Berlin. Her book Doing It All, which explores the politics of single motherhood, was published in 2024. As a journalist, she writes about the global ecological crisis. She is also an editor for the feminist journalism platform Unbias the News, where she focuses on environmental and migration stories.

Tracey Gudwin is a US-born film director, screenwriter and comedy writer living in Berlin. She is the director and camerawoman of the Emmy-winning series ‘Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations’. She is currently working as a director and writer for German television series such as ‘Kitchen Impossible’ and ‘Herstory’ as well as for commercials for brands such as ‘The Singleton’ and ‘Daluma’.

GIRL, SHOW ME THAT BODY (OF WORK):
FLINTA* LITERATURE NIGHT #4

Date: 25 October 2025, 20:00h

Place: Lettrétage, Veteranenstr. 21, 10119 Berlin

Admission: free

Event language: Readings in English, German, Hebrew, Romanian and Spanish

Moderation: Ambika Thompson, The Reader Berlin

Focus and topics: Feminist literature as a force for democracy.

Feminism has long had an ambivalent relationship with democracy, as Michele Estrin Gilman argues in ‘Feminism, Democracy and the War on Women’ (2014). Anti-feminist narratives, often spread by the radical right, fuel anti-democratic movements. How does literature shape democratic development? How can it affirm the value of the underrepresented? How can literature be sustained as a force for equality in our lives?

Tamar Raphael was born in 1989 in Petach Tikvah, Israel, and currently resides in Berlin. Her first book, a poetry collection titled Receding Songs, published in 2021, won her the Ministry of Culture Award for Young Poets. Her debut novel, There Were Two with Nothing to Do, published in 2024, was received with rave reviews and won the Brener Award’s honorable mention for a debut novel. Her poems and short stories have been published in a variety of journals, including Granta, Hava LeHaba, and Moznayim.

Lili Khoury is a German/Palestinian poet and feminist activist from Berlin. She has been performing her poems at political and literary events for several years, including at the Women 7 Summit of the German Women’s Council with Chancellor Scholz (2022), at Fair Share of Women Leaders (2023), at the Neuköllner Kapital and at the Poetic Hafla at Lettrétage (2023- 2024).

Ioana Cristina Casapu is a Romanian author and journalist whose works have appeared in more than 30 anthologies and magazines in English and Romanian. She made her debut in 2016 with the novel Deviații de Stereo (Casa de Pariuri Literare, Bucharest), which was published in 2019 under the title Heart Beats: A Memoir of The Millennial Generation on Social Media (German title: Herzklopfen: Eine Millennial-Generation über soziale Medien). In her writing, she explores independent ideas on feminism, migration, politics, and the solitude of life in European metropolises. Her latest book, Berliner Tagebuch. Die Geschichte meiner inneren Mauer, will be published on September 26, 2025 by KLAK Verlag.

Moira Morgulis (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1991) is a writer, musician, singer, and teacher currently based in Berlin. She has released her own songs and performs live. She is alsoa voice-over artist, dubbing actress, and journalist, having worked in radio and written articles for digital media. The author of two poetry collections (Una voz imperfecta, 2020; Tantas cosas podrían crecer acá, 2024), she is currently working on her third book.

Ambika Thompson (they/them) is a Berlin-based writer and musician. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph (2019), served as fiction editor at SAND Journal (2022–2025), and, since 2024, teach creative writing and are Managing Director of The Reader Berlin.