Nora Schramm (*1993 in south-west Germany) writes prose, poetry and drama. She studied literature and writing at University of Cologne, foreign languages and cultural studies in Gießen. She received several fellowships, a.o. the Jürgen Ponto-scholarship, the Baldreit-scholarship Baden-Baden and the 1:1-Mentoring NRW, her poetry was awarded at Textstreich-competition. Her debut novel “Hohle Räume“ (“Hollow Spaces“) will be published in March 2024 by Matthes&Seitz Berlin.

At Künstlerdorf, I started working on a dramatic text that asks questions about the human relationship to other species. During my walks around Schöppingen, I noticed the trucks stuffed with pigs passing the village, and the empty ones coming back. I noticed I was surrounded by cornfields grown to feed the pigs. I wondered, where all these pigs lived and finally found some. Pigs are shaping our landscapes but are not part of them. They are present as symbols and products, but not as bodies. The history weshare with them is long, it’s about labour, eroticism and violence, it’s about living together because you eat from each other, maybe it’s about resistance, for sure it’s about power.