Stadtluft Nº10

Charlotte Gneuß studied social work, literary writing, and dramatic writing. She is the editor of the anthology Glückwunsch (Hanser Berlin, 2023) and the Neue Rundschau: Diktatur und Utopie – wie erzählen wir die DDR? (S. Fischer, 2024). Her debut novel “Gittersee” was nominated for the German Book Prize, received numerous awards, and has been translated into many languages. She wrote about her research for “Gittersee” in volume 6 of “Stadtluft Dresden” in 2021. In 2024, she was Dresden's city writer and has since hosted the “Wort & Welt” reading series at the Dresden State Library.

The poet Durs Grünbein, born in Dresden in 1962, now lives in Berlin and Rome. He studied theater history at Humboldt University in Berlin, and his widely translated work has been honored with major awards such as the Büchner Prize in 1995 and the Tranströmer Prize in 2012. Grünbein is a professor of poetry at the Düsseldorf Art Academy and a member of the Pour le mérite order. His most recent publications with Suhrkamp Verlag include “Jenseits der Literatur” (Beyond Literature, 2020), ‘Äquidistanz’ (Equidistance, 2022), and the novel “Der Komet. Die Geschichte der Dora W.” (The Comet: The Story of Dora W., 2023).

Peter Richter spent his childhood and youth in Dresden, where he first encountered techno clubs in the early 1990s. He studied art history in Hamburg, spent several years as a cultural correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung in New York, and now works as a journalist and writer in Berlin. His books do not always have something to do with Dresden, but they often do. The city plays a special role in particular in “Blühende Landschaften, eine Heimatkunde”, 2004, “Deutsches Haus - Von einem, der auszog, das Wohnen zu lernen”, 2006, the novel “89/90” (2014), and “Dresden revisited - Von einer Heimat, die einen nicht fortlässt” (2016). His most recent novel is “August” (2021).