The LitLab (Literature Lab) is an initiative of the Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies and is aimed at upper secondary school students. Through our programs, students come into contact with authors from different backgrounds and are encouraged to develop their creative writing skills under professional guidance and gain their first insights into literary studies.

Literary worlds meet and creative processes become visible. Delphine de Stoutz makes this possible in this year’s writing workshop. Under her guidance, students will write texts that combine transnational perspectives and take up both feminist and historical themes relating to France and Germany. The event combines creative writing and research-based dialog on different forms of literary expression and shows the synergies that arise when the spaces of academia and practice are linked.

About the person:

°1976 (Évian-les-bains, France) Delphine de Stoutz is a writer, dramaturge and literary mediator. She studied theater and literature at the Université Paris X Nanterre and at the University of Oregon. De Stoutz is co-founder of theRéseau des Autrices, a network of French-speaking women writers in Berlin, and the Hôtel des Autrices, an award-winning and internationally recognized Franco-German digital residency and publication program. She published her first novel Adult(R) in 2018. Her works focus on heterolinguistics, post-patriarchal language, feminism and literature outside of books. Délphine de Stoutz lives in Berlin.

The project is funded by the University of Bremen Foundation.