WORD IN PROGRESS (WIP)
With Chris Lauer, Cosimo Suglia and Samuel Hamen
Join us on Tuesday 04 March 2025 at 8pm at Ratelach., where you can curl up in our armchairs, enjoy a drink of your choice and listen to texts in progress by Chris Lauer, Cosimo Suglia and Samuel Hamen.
Inspired by the Parisian Work In Progress evenings, the principle of Word in Progress (WIP) is simple and original: to create a genuine exchange between the audience and the writer, while giving a glimpse of the work in progress. For ten minutes, the guest authors read an unpublished text that is still being written. After that, it's up to the audience to give their feedback and ask the author questions about her work in progress, with the help of an ‘author's tormentor’ to guide the debate.
Samuel Hamen (*1988) lives and works as a freelance writer in Germany and Luxembourg. He writes mainly prose and plays, and also publishes essays and literary criticism. He has received several awards for his literary work, including the Lëtzebuerger Buchpräis and a grant from the Roger Willemsen Foundation. His latest novel, Wie die Fliegen., was published by diaphanes, Zurich, and won the Prix Servais 2024.
De Cosimo Suglia schreift op Lëtzebuergesch an Englesch. Hie schreift Kuerzgeschichten, Gedichter, Romaner, an Theaterstécker. De Cosimo seet Saachen an d'Leit laachen dobäi, wat hie verwonnert. Hien huet en Interessi u Subkulturen an Insekten.
Chris Lauer was born in Luxembourg in 1995 and lives in Luxembourg City. She studied German Studies and Sociology in Freiburg im Breisgau. She works as a cultural journalist for the weekly Woxx and is also involved in the literary association Désoeuvrés. In 2023, she was a finalist for the Hanns Meinke Prize, and in 2024, she was awarded the Mameranus Prize, as well as being nominated for the Servais Prize. She has taken part in readings in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg and Lithuania, and has published in anthologies and renowned literary journals such as Sinn und Form. In autumn 2023, her first lyrical novel, Gut verräumte Sternschnuppen, was published by Limbus.
