Tanja Dückers (*1968 in Berlin) has published 20 books, including the prose works „Himmelskörper“, „Spielzone“, „Hausers Zimmer“, „Café Brazil“, essay collections („Morgen nach Utopia“, „Über das Erinnern“), poetry collections, children’s books, plays and feature-length non-fiction („Das süße Berlin. Die Schokoladenseiten der Hauptstadt“, with photographs by Anton Landgraf).
Interdisciplinary collaborations with photographers, visual artists, musicians, composers and chocolatiers, invention of a cipher and founding of her own chocolate brand „Preussisch süß – Berliner Stadtteilschokolade“. Tanja Dückers speaks out on socio-political issues and has appeared on many panels in Germany and abroad. She has been a writer-in-residence, German lecturer and visiting professor at Dartmouth College, Allegheny College, Oberlin College and Miami University, among others. In 2022 she taught at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. She is a member of PEN Berlin, Amnesty International, „Weiter Schreiben. A portal for literature and music from crisis areas“, the Christa Wolf Society and ver.di. She lives with her family in Berlin.

From Schöppingen, I did research in Münster for a current literary project. My grandparents lived in Münster, they met in the Civilclub, a centuries-old association, and fell in love in the thirties. An exciting topic for me, also in terms of this time in Münster and the surrounding area.
But on the spot in Schöppingen, I was also interested in something else: the treatment of farm animals in the dairy and meat industry. I then wrote poems about this, which I plan to publish together with the Ukrainian photographer Anna Melnykova, who took photos on the subject in Schöppingen.