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Paula Fürstenberg

© Nora Linnemann
© Nora Linnemann

Please introduce yourself in two or three sentences.
I was born in 1987 in Potsdam and studied at the Swiss Literature Institute, as well as at Humboldt University. I’ve lived in Berlin since 2011.

What career experience do you have in your field of consultation?
I’ve worked as a freelance writer since 2011. I’ve published two novels with the Cologne publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch: Familie der geflügelten Tiger (Family of Winged Tigers, 2016) and Weltalltage (Everyday Life, Suspended, 2024). I co-edited three ‘habitus volumes’ for the independent publisher Sukultur. In addition, I write essays, curate literary projects, run writing workshops and am active in various literary collectives and networks.

What are typical questions that participants might ask you in a consultation session?
How do I write a good proposal? How does a manuscript become a book? What funding is available to writers? What is the Berlin literary scene like? Which networks, institutions and opportunities for exchange are there?

What are some of your professional achievements?
2023 Residency at Villa Aurora, Los Angeles
2022 Work stipend of the Deutscher Literaturfonds
2020 Literature grant from the Stiftung Preussische Seehandlung
2019 Residency at Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg
2018 Berlin Senate work stipend
2014 Participation in the Autorenwerkstatt Prosa, Literarisches Colloquium Berlin
2012 Work stipend of the State of Brandenburg
2011 Hattinger Förderpreis for young authors
2011 Prix Marcela Delpastre at the poet bewegt literary contest, Chemnitz
2010 Antho?-Logisch! Literature Prize, Fürth
2009 LitArena Literature Prize, St. Pölten

What languages do you offer consultation sessions in?
German, English, French.

Where can you be found in the internet/on social media?
https://www.instagram.com/paula.fuerstenberg/
https://www.literaturport.de/lexikon/paula-fuerstenberg/