The DAAD and the IMLR are calling all learners and lovers of German to take part in a writing competition! This time, the task is to write a story in German. Two German-speaking authors, Anja Tuckermann (Berlin) and Ulrike Ulrich (Zurich), have provided beginnings of stories of migration. Now it’s your pupils turn to take one of these beginnings and continue spinning the yarn. Pupils are free to develop their text in any direction they choose: to write a story of flight or refuge, of identities and self-images, of encounters or new beginnings. The story can be set in the past, the present or the future - and in any geographical setting they wish. The only rule: it must not be longer than
250 words.
The competition is open to students at secondary schools, Sixth-Formers, undergraduates, postgraduates and anybody else who feels up to the challenge!
Prizes, including a writing workshop with one or both of the authors and books, will be awarded to winners and runners-ups in each group at a prize-giving event at Senate House on 1 March 2017. This will be a chance to listen to the winners’ as well as to the authors’own story endings.
Deadline for entries is 6 January 2016.
Find the two beginnings as well as more information on the competitions
here.
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