Micha Friemel and Kristin Schulz

Photo: Nina Mann

Micha Friemel, born in St. Gallen in 1981, studied history and German literature in Basel and literary writing at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. She lives with her husband and four children in Sta. Maria Val Müstair. Her first children's book ‘Lulu in der Mitte’ was illustrated by Jacky Gleich, was published by Hanser in 2020 and was nominated for the Swiss Children's and Youth Book Prize. ‘Oma Erbse’ was published in 2022, also by Hanser and with Jacky Gleich. In addition to writing, she runs Chasa Parli, a retreat for writers and thoughtful people.

Photo: Ula Wołek

Kristin Schulz, born in 1975 in Jena, Thuringia, lives in Berlin. She works as an author, translator, and literary scholar. Her first collection of prose, Das Elsterneinmaleins, was published in 2005, followed by poetry collections Gesammelte Fehlmärchen in 2014 and Angewandte Verhältnisse in 2019. She is the director of the "Heiner Müller Archive / Transitraum" at Humboldt University in Berlin and has worked as an editor (including the poetry of Thomas Brasch in 2013, with Martina Hanf, and Heiner Müller in 2014). In 2012, she was awarded the German Audiobook Prize for the publication of Heiner Müller's audio recordings Müller MP3. Her first children's book, Hundert Arten auf den Wolf zu kommen (A Hundred Ways to Approach the Wolf), illustrated by Helge Leiberg, was chosen as "Picture Book of the Month" for November 2021 by the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature. She refrains from separating life and literature and loves literature without age restrictions.