Thilo Krause and Dilbahar Askari
Photo: Peter Hassiepen
Thilo Krause, born in Dresden in 1977, lives in Zurich. After studying industrial engineering in Dresden and London, he completed his doctorate at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and then worked in research for many years. Since 2012, he has published four volumes of poetry and one novel, most recently: ‘Dass uns findet, wer will’ (Poems, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich). Thilo Krause has received numerous awards for his work, including a Swiss Literature Prize, the Clemens Brentano Prize, the Robert Walser Prize and the Peter Huchel Prize.
Photo: Migmar Dolma
Dilbahar Askari, born in Bern in 1992, studied philosophy and cultural studies in Basel and Leipzig. In June 2024, she also completed a Master’s degree in Contemporary Arts Practice in the specialist field of Literary Writing/Translation at Bern University of the Arts. She writes precise yet sensual texts that meander between poetry and prose, between narrative and essay.
Project
The basic theme of the mentorship is thinking in terms of books: how do you get from the initial, the fragmentary, the loose collection to a finished text? It’s all about the writer’s craft: constellating, condensing, omitting or adding, working on details. Another leitmotif of the joint work is the question of lyrical use of language. What makes a poem a poem? In addition to the submitted text ‘Die Vorübergehenden’, a poetic essay about a care relationship and the longing for closeness in late capitalism, the mentorship will also focus on other material brought in.
