Tandem-Lesung: Ulla Lenze und Isabell Lehn

In the organizer's words:

The two former Heinrich Heine scholarship holders have published new novels in 2024. Ulla Lenze's "Das Wohlbefinden" was on the longlist for the German Book Prize. Isabelle Lehn's "Die Spielerin" was highly praised in the feature pages. From the German Empire to the present day, Ulla Lenze portrays three women's lives who experience liberation and advancement and yet are unable to save themselves from the threat of losing their significance. In "Die Spielerin", Isabelle Lehn creates an ambivalent heroine who knows how to make the most of her inconspicuousness. An exciting game with our own expectations. Inspired by a true story.

Ulla Lenze, born in 1973, has received several awards for her novels, including the Jürgen Ponto Prize for the best debut in 2003, the Ernst Willner Prize at the Bachmann Competition and the Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft for her complete works in 2016. Her novel "Der Empfänger" (2020) has been translated into 12 languages.

Isabelle Lehn, born in 1979, lives in Leipzig. She writes narrative and essayistic prose. Her debut novel "Binde zwei Vögel zusammen" was published in 2016 and most recently the novel "Frühlingserwachen" (2019). She has received numerous prizes and scholarships for her literary work, most recently the Dietrich Oppenberg Media Prize for her essay "Weibliches Schreiben".