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Premiere presentation

of the current fellows
Sunday, 6 July – 11-13 hrs
Followed by lunch together on the terrace.

Alisha Gamisch

Alisha Gamisch (she/her) is a freelance writer and curator based in Berlin. Her first volume of poetry Lustdorf was published by Verlagshaus Berlin in 2020 and was selected by the Haus für Poesie as one of the best poetry debuts of 2020 and nominated for the Ulla Hahn Prize. For her novel project Parasiti, she received a research grant in 2021 and a working grant from the Berlin Senate in 2022, as well as the Nora Pfeffer Prize for Poetry in the same year. In 2023 she was a participant in the LCB Berlin writing workshop, and in spring 2025 she was a fellow at the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen. She currently curates and moderates the reading and discussion series PostOst-Café. She will be writing her debut novel ‘Parasiti’ at Künstlerhaus Lauenburg, which will be published in 2026.

Anaïs Meier

*Born 1984 in Bern.
Studied Literary Writing at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. Wrote the monthly column ‘Aus dem Réduit’ for the Fabrikzeitung from 2018-2022. 2018 Co-founder of the author collective RAUF. In 2020, the short story collection ‘Über Berge, Menschen und insbesondere Bergschnecken’ was published by mikrotext, in 2021 the novel ‘Mit einem Fuss draussen’ by Voland & Quist. The next book is called ‘Die Dekonstruktion des Feminismus durch den Tennisclub Oberdiessbach im ICE 376’ and is mainly set on an ICE train between Thun and Hamburg Altona, although it has yet to be written.

Graphic essay, page 46 – Yara Jakobs

Graphic essay, page 47 – Yara Jakobs

Yara Jakobs

The project ‘Rolle, Rolle’, a graphic novel, thematises social roles and identity. The author draws inspiration from her everyday life as a single mother, artist and woman in the dating life. It tells the story of two very different twins who are caring for a baby together. While one of them fails to reconcile care work, paid work and dating, the second twin is mainly interested in the hedonistic side of life. This gives rise to conflicts. Both characters develop a convincing dynamic. The author succeeds in telling the story of the conflict between being an artist and being a mother in a visually and lyrically convincing way. It is a fantastically drawn, interesting and unusual story. The graphic novel genre fits in well with the profile of the Künstler:innenhaus.

Yara Isabel Jakobs studied graphic design, product design, comics and illustration in Angoulême, Bolzano and Hamburg. In addition to her publications, she is passionate about teaching children and young people narrative drawing and painting in workshops.

The neighbour, Isabell Ratzinger, 2020 – Photo: Jakob Francisco

Things without names, Isabell Ratzinger, 2022 – Photo: Lena Bils

Isabell Ratzinger

During her stay in Lauenburg, the artist plans to develop a walk-in, site-specific installation that unfolds around the strange and indefinable nature of Kafka’s ‘Odradek’ and takes its starting point in the bronze figure ‘Lauenburger Rufer’ (1959) by Karl-Heinz Goedtke. With this approach, she links the location, an identity-forming monument, local traditions and the construction of history(ies) up to the present day. The caller forms the basis for exploring the intermediate area between what the figure intuitively tells us and what we want to inscribe in it. ‘Is he shouting a joke or is he calling out a warning?’ asks Isabell Ratzinger. His call remains silent, leaving plenty of room for interpretation and speculation.
The examination of the concept of identity from a sculptural perspective made the jury particularly curious: it will be exciting to see how Isabell Ratzinger relates the Lauenburg Caller and ‘Odradek’ to each other and translates them into the medium of sculpture and installation. We are just as excited.
Isabell Ratzinger, born in Mainz, received her diploma from the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach am Main in 2022, specialising in experimental spatial concepts, sculpture and stage design/scenic space. Exhibition and research projects have taken her at home and abroad, including to Japan and Lithuania.

Sagardía

The composer and sound artist has been working on his project “Romper la hora! 2025” for Lauenburg – which roughly translates as: Smash the hour! The piece is designed for professional percussionists, but also for a percussion-playing city with as many of its musical organisations as possible. This hour-long percussion performance, which will take place on 21 September 2025 as part of the final presentations, is based on the Spanish festival of the same name.
The jury was impressed by the artistic and musical quality of the compositions submitted – on an emotional, audible and tangible level.
Anyone can take part in “Romper la hora! 2025!”. All interested parties are invited: Children, young people, adults, music or percussion groups, with and without experience, with and without percussion instruments. After initial contact has been made, the relevant scores will be distributed to interested participants, explained and rehearsed in short workshops.

Sagardía studied instrumental composition with Adriana Hölzsky and Hans-Joachim Hespos at the Rostock University of Music and Theatre and later at the Folkwang University of the Arts with Nicolaus A. Huber and Günther Steinke, as well as electronic composition with Dirk Reith. He has received numerous national and international scholarships for his work. His screenplay ‘Schwarze Ähre’ was awarded 1st prize by the Goethe-Institut St. Petersburg.