Lena Schätte in Erfurt: Writing walk through the Cartography of Memory
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Erfurt as a literary resonance space: A writing walk with Lena Schätte
On May 30, 2026, Erfurt will become an open page: During the Erfurt Cartography of Memory, city writer Lena Schätte will guide participants through the neighborhood around Magdeburger Allee and transform the urban space into a literary experience. The writing walk combines observation, conversation, and creative writing into an author encounter that intertwines memory, present, and urban experience.
The city as a text that begins underfoot
Those who join will read not only facades, shop windows, and backyards, but also the quiet zones between things: sounds, traces, fleeting sentences, random images. Lena Schätte opens the eyes to those moments in which a city reveals its narratives. The tour makes visible how closely literary quality and urban perception are connected.
Writing from movement, writing from perception
The workshop relies on short playful writing exercises and impulses. From the perceived, fragments, short stories, and personal finds emerge that can later be collectively condensed. This is the strength of this format: It brings literature not as a finished result but as an experienceable process. For those interested in writing, reading promotion, and cultural exchange, this event offers an accessible, inspiring entry point.
Lena Schätte: Voice of a precise contemporary literature
Lena Schätte, born in 1993 in Lüdenscheid, made her debut in 2014 with Ruhrpottliebe, worked as a psychiatric nurse in the Ruhr area, and studied at the German Literature Institute Leipzig starting in 2020. For her novel The Black on My Father's Hands, she received the W.-G.-Sebald-Literature Prize as well as the North Rhine-Westphalia Promotion Prize; additionally, the book was on the longlist of the German Book Prize 2025. Her prose is regarded as concise, direct, and at the same time tender, with a strong observational talent for families, milieus, and emotional tensions.
A literary experience with urban space and language
The event is aimed at all who want not only to read literature but to experience it in urban space. The mix of walk, writing course, and author presence promises a morning full of attention, exchange, and linguistic discoveries. In the end, participants will take home not only texts but also a sharpened view of Erfurt as a narrative city.
A free, stimulating format for all who appreciate literary atmosphere, creative practice, and an unusual perspective on Erfurt. Those who want to experience language as movement should join this event live.
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