Katrin Girgensohn
Projects
[German version]
Creative writing excursions
Creative writing journeys are adventures with pen and paper. I offer group city tours with stimulations for creative writing in Berlin. Educational holidays for anyone with an appetite for creative writing and other writing excursions can be arranged.
Salons
I have run several
different literary salons in Berlin:
The "Gespinste-Salong" in Café Nil (together with Nina
Pohl, 1999) used to invite to readings, creative writing games and music,
monthly, until the closure of the café. It also published a local
zine - the "Gespinste-Blaettchen from rough Friedrichshain".
The "First Berlin Writing Salon" in Art- and Culture house KNORRE, invited in 2000 publicly to literary socials and offered "creative writing nights".
During 1999-2002 I and Xochil
A. Schuetz invited Berlin's literary people weekly to "Theodora's
Literature Salon", where they would present and discuss their own
texts. In the literature contest the best texts were awarded prices. Theodora's
Literature Salon took place at changing venues: Restaurant Theodor Tucher,
Arkona-Kino, Kulturbrauerei, Café Rasputin, Café Sybille.
Theodora's Literature Salon can still be visited in Cyber space at:
www.theodoras-literatursalon.de
Friedrichshain's Kaleidoscope of Memories
Friedrichshain's Kaleidoscope
of Memories is a creative writing workshop that includes several generations
for biographic writing. People of different age groups write about their
memories, following creative impulses. Like that, personal experiences
become pieces of contemporary history and give rise to conversation.
The group published three anthologies.
