Saskia Warzecha, born in Peine in 1987, studied computational linguistics in Potsdam, followed by language arts at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and literary writing at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig. Her poetry has received numerous prizes and awards, including the Munich Poetry Prize, the Heimrad-Bäcker-Förderpreis and national and international working scholarships. Her most recent books of poetry are “Farbleib” (2024) and “Approximanten” (2020), both published by Matthes &Seitz Berlin. She is co-editor of the journal Transistor.

In 2024, I was able to spend two months in Schöppingen, April and August. Together with the Künstlerdorf team we had been thinking about previously about how my two-month residency would best suit my living and working situation this year, which is how I could split the two months. In April, I was able to concentrate on the final revisions of my second book “Farbleib”, a long poem on the subject of spatial theory and the linguistic intertwining of space and time constructions, exchange ideas with my editor and our graphic designer and finally finish the book. In August, I then had the freedom to devote myself to new, even more undirected projects in the library and my room under the roof and, above all, in the garden.