200 cakes, 200 Days, 200 strangers' Home Visits

The Book - Hausbesuche – Wie ich mit 200 Kuchen meine Nachbarschaft eroberte (English: Home visits – How I conquered my neighbourhood with 200 cakes)

Stephanie Quitterer baked a cake every day for 200 days and rang a doorbell in her neighborhood to invite herself for coffee. In the book “Hausbesuche” she recounts her experiences.

Following her passion for hidden parallel universes, Stephanie Quitterer embarks on an extraordinary field study: for 200 days, she invites herself into strangers’ homes every day, spontaneously, unannounced and with homemade cakes.

In search of prejudices, stereotypes and the East-West divides in Berlin’s gentrification-ravaged Prenzlauer Berg district, hours of conversation take place at strangers’ kitchen tables, from messy flats to designer lofts, but above all, friendships and an unexpected love for all human beings are formed.

About the author:

Stephanie Quitterer worked with street children in Rio de Janeiro and interned at Augusto Boal’s theatre projects in youth prisons. She studied politics in Berlin and Cairo and theatre in Munich. She worked in film and theatre, was a director and assistant director at the German Theater Berlin, among others, and realized a wide variety of theatre projects and performances before devoting herself to writing.

She writes books for children, young adults and adults, as well as radio plays, theatre plays and screenplays. Her work has received numerous awards, including a nomination for the German Youth Literature Prize 2024.

Stephanie has been city writer for children’s and young adult literature for the city Nördlingen. She was a scholarship holder for screenwriting for the city Nuremberg and the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Bavaria’s public broadcaster), and she received scholarship from the German Literature Fund twice. In 2025, she has been the artist in residence at the International Writers’ and Translators’ House in Ventspils, Latvia, as well as at the Goethe-Institut in China.