Fiona Sironic: Am Samstag gehen die Mädchen in den Wald und jagen Sachen in die Luft

A first love between holding on and destruction, extinction and survival

There is a fire. In the woods and on the screens. 15-year-old Era lives with her mother on the edge of the forest and tries to counteract the creeping process of destruction by documenting the extinction of birds. In one stream, she observes her classmate Maja and her sister Merle blowing up hard drives in the neighboring clearing. Maja is the daughter of two momfluencers who is trying to erase the memories of a public childhood. While Era keeps notebooks, makes drawings and tries to organize all the knowledge she has access to, Maja forms a destructive counterforce. Nevertheless, Era and Maja are connected in their search for intimacy and analog stimuli. While the turtle dove dies out, the two fall in love. But not only the birds are threatened: when a large-scale fire destroys the forest, the girls also lose a significant part of their habitat.

Confident and clever, Sironic convinces with a new literary voice.

Fiona Sironic (*1995 in Neuss) studied Language Arts, Creative Writing and Gender Studies in Hildesheim and Vienna, where she now lives as a freelance writer. She also gives workshops and deals with digital games in her journalistic writing. Sironic has received various prizes, scholarships and nominations for her literary texts. For example, she was nominated for the Wortmeldungen Förderpreis, won the Open Mike 2019 and received both the BMKÖS working and starting scholarship, was also a scholarship holder of the Klagenfurt Literature Course and the Kölner Schmiede and received one of the workshop scholarships as part of the German Prize for Nature Writing 2024 for an excerpt from her debut novel "Am Samstag gehen die Mädchen in den Wald und jagen Sachen in die Luft".