SCHWINDEL - A premiere reading by the Buchstablerinnen

One feels dizzy before her performance in the arena, another surrenders to a trance while dancing; and yet another tells herself a little white lie to make everyday life a bit more bearable. Sometimes laconic, sometimes suspenseful, sometimes full of wit, the authors tell the stories of their heroes and heroines; whoever stumbles here falls breathtakingly deep—or will discover balance in the void.

Incidentally, this evening was conceived during an intoxicating night. Perhaps that’s a fib. Or perhaps not. A premiere to which they cordially invite you!

Short biographies of the artists

Samyra Hachmann (*1993 in Bielefeld) is German-Palestinian with German and Israeli citizenship. While studying geography and political science, she decided to dedicate herself not to resolving the Middle East conflict, but to addressing climate change. On both fronts, the outlook is bleak—a good moment to seek answers in stories.

Lina Hollinger, originally from Saarbrücken, has been navigating the Berlin dating scene since 2020. After spectacularly failing to achieve her goal of finding a man who isn’t a jerk, the past six years are now being transformed into art. She writes, acts, and reads. She is also a cultural studies scholar and works with text and imagery.

Dana Rabea Jäger (born in 1992 in Duisburg) lives and works in Berlin. In her artistic practice, she explores femininity, the body, and their objectification. Text-based work serves both as a standalone form and as part of her artistic practice.

Jana Sepehr studied sociology, globalization, and development policy in Kiel, Maastricht, and San Diego. She has been working as a freelance journalist since 2015. Her writing often addresses justice, family, work, the meaning of life, and the relationship between truth and lies.

Mandoline Rutkowski is a freelance cultural journalist in Berlin. She studied journalism and political science in Hanover and Amsterdam—and rarely stayed in one place for long afterward. In Amsterdam, she served as a press representative for an environmental organization that occupied buildings; in Cape Town, she hosted her own radio show; and in London, she reported as a correspondent on British class society. Prose writing has never left her. She is currently working on her first novel.

Olga Leise, born in Ukraine in 1986, studied linguistics and literature. In addition to her job with a social project, she is pursuing her psychology studies. She secretly plans a major literary coup, which fails not least because she discards every attempt at writing.

Hannah Schragmann is a philosopher, entrepreneur—and a farm girl. Her writing, shaped by poetry and nature writing, has always been a way of engaging with the world: a feeling out, a searching, a weaving in. A revelation of secret threads.

When writing, Christine K looks within herself and finds there parts of life and soul that look European and West African. Are they really? CK disappoints herself with her autofictional narrative.

Alina Valerie Weinert, born in 1995 in Freiburg im Breisgau, holds a bachelor’s degree in Theater Studies & Philosophy from the Free University of Berlin (FU) and a diploma in acting from the “Ernst Busch” Academy of Dramatic Arts; this was followed by engagements at various municipal and state theaters. Her prose works are regularly published in literary journals and have received multiple awards. In 2026, she has been invited to a writing residency at the Künstlerhaus Salzwedel.

Sabine Schönfeldt studied German and Romance languages in Hamburg and has lived in Berlin as a freelance author since 1999. She writes radio plays, dramas, and short stories and is currently working on a novel. Her short story Old Mama & Little Child, which won the Nordost Literature Prize, was most recently published in Trojanische Steckenpferde.

Amrei Wesinger (*1996) is a director and writer. The primary focus of her art is on otherness within feminist, queer, and neurodivergent contexts.