Julienne De Muirier is a writer of prose and drama. She has written for theater productions at Theater Oberhausen, Residenztheater Munich and Hessisches Landestheater Marburg, among others. In her work, she deals with alienation, life in the diaspora and the self. Her prose has been published in magazines such as BELLA triste, Das NARR and defrag Zine. In 2022, she was part of the curatorial team for the volume NEUE TÖCHTER AFRIKAS and was shortlisted for the Wortmeldungen Förderpreis. In2023, she wrote for the production blues in schwarz weiß at the Residenztheater and was awarded the Ruhr Literature Prize for her short story Nachtfahrt.

„During the three months of my stay in Schöppingen, I worked on my first novel. I wrote in the library, I wrote by the fireplace, I wrote in the studio, I wrote at a series of tables, I wrote while walking the daily rounds. I thought about writing. I stuck notes and sheets of paper on the wall. I watched the crows meeting in the trees as I walked, sometimes pigeons too, and I never once stopped to wonder why, but always thought I had never seen so many crows sitting in a tree. Never before, anywhere. I wasn’t used to the silence of this place either. As it happens, silence sets the mind in motion. It forces you to create something to counteract it. That was the writing there. It was as if this time had opened up a space for me and said I had to fill it for myself and if I didn’t, the silence would kill me. That was this work for me, in this place that too often seemed like writing itself. Somewhere between silence and horror. Just as it always is. “