Hör-Spiele

The “Hör-Spiele” evening presents short radio plays that send our ears on a journey of discovery and turn understanding into an adventure. The short radio plays will be presented as finished productions and as live readings. Not a single wrong note will slip through - the director makes sure of that when she says, “One more time, please, but a little more desperately!”

Hör-Spiele: An evening for everyone who wants to honor their ears.

Featuring:

Martiné-Carolin Frenzel, Lisa Funke, Nastasja Futyma, Elisa Giesmann, Anna Rohleder, Sabine Schönfeldt, Oliver Wenzlaff, Özge Yildiz, Svetlana Zubkova, and Jeanine Zweck

Entry is by donation.

Short biographies of the artists:

Martiné-Carolin Frenzel (born in 1999 in Erfurt) studied library and information science in Leipzig before coming to appreciate Berlin’s art and cultural scene. Professionally, she remains closely involved in event planning but her love for children’s literature remains her passion; while she rarely finds time to write, she does find many inspirations for her own texts - often while traveling, between crocheting and her great passion, skydiving.

Lisa Funke (born in 1991 in Duderstadt) has lived in Berlin for 10 years, where she is active in democracy education. During a period of unemployment (thanks to budget cuts), she set out to explore unusual adult education courses and tried her hand at gardening. The result was a radio play, new projects focused on democracy in the education system, and a part-time job as a gardener.

Elisa Giessmann (born in Berlin in 1995) spent her childhood and youth in Hesse before training as a professional voice actress in Berlin. She gained her first experience as a voice actress for audiobooks and dubbing, established herself in the field, and eventually discovered her passion for radio plays in the VHS radio play course “Mit verbundenen Augen” (Blindfolded). Since the birth of her first child, she has been pursuing her dream job even more intensely and finds happiness in acting.

Jeanine Zweck grew up in the sandy plains of the Mark, where she used to dream herself into foreign worlds. Today, she brings those worlds to life on paper. After studying cultural studies and spending extended periods abroad, the writer now lives in Berlin. She continues to seek out the magic in everyday life. In addition to radio plays and mystery tours, she writes stories for children.

Oliver Wenzlaff, author and ghostwriter of various nonfiction books (including Piratenkommunikation – Was die Eliten in Wirtschaft und Politik von den Piraten lernen können, ambition 2012) and director of writing and radio play courses in Berlin. In BÜCHER magazine, he writes a regular column on how authors’ physical surroundings influence their respective works.

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 Literaturpreis, was most recently published in Trojanische Steckenpferde.

Anna Rohleder hosts the podcast “The Glitchatorio,” which explores the quirks of AI. She used to be a journalist and still enjoys writing about the flip side of what is supposedly good, as her website suggests: https://darksideof.io/ She lives in Berlin.

Özge Yildiz (photo, center), born in Berlin in 1999, has been working as a freelancer since 2024 and works for Audible, among others. In 2025, she completed her training as an audio describer at the Hörfilmakademie.

Svetlana Zubkova: The mathematician who found her own fairy tales. She loved the logic of numbers but hated literature class. Fifteen years ago, she took a quantum leap: she moved from a small town to a huge metropolis, where she now cherishes her three most precious diamonds. At over 50 years old, she took on the challenge of learning German. In the radio play course “Mit verbundenen Augen,” she wove mathematical precision together with the magic of sound. The result was a piece about her grandmother—a tribute to the inner beauty that will save the world.

Nastasja Futyma came to Berlin to study theater. Since then, she has been gathering material for her writing through her travels, observations of everyday life, and a never-ending odyssey through the job hunt on eBay-Kleinanzeigen. At the heart of her writing are the comical and absurd aspects of human interaction.