Literaturklub: Care & Money mit Philipp-Bo Franke und Sebastian Schmidt

In the organizer's words:

Philipp-Bo Franke (Cologne) and Sebastian Schmidt (Würzburg) will read new texts about writing with family, about care and nursing, but also about the question of the dear money that makes writing and family possible. The latter has just published the volume "abtauchen, egal" (parasitenpresse 2025) on this topic. The evening will be moderated by Adrian Kasnitz.

The authors:

Philipp-Bo Franke is an author and cultural producer in Cologne. In 2018, together with Jonas Linnebank, he founded the Cologne literary magazine - KLiteratur. So-called 'projects' have developed from this. A reading series, a literature festival, writing workshops with young people and work on his literary debut. In it, he writes about his work as a geriatric nurse in a dementia care home. The project was awarded a Fritz Hüser working grant in 2023. He also writes essays and prose that have been published in literary magazines and newspapers.

Sebastian Schmidt was born in 1983 and grew up near Heidelberg. The author is an active member of the group Other Writers Need to Concentrate, which deals with the subject of care work and writing in the literary world. His poems have been nominated for the Dresden Poetry Prize and the Merano Poetry Prize, among others. In 2024, he was awarded the Media Prize of the Italian Broadcasting Corporation (RAI). His texts have been translated into Czech, French and English. abtauchen, egal is his second volume of poetry published by parasitenpresse, previously so stelle ich mir den gesang von erst kürzlich mutierten finken vor. Sebastian Schmidt lives in Würzburg.