University of Tübingen: New management for the literature and theater studio
The poet Nancy Hünger will head the literature and theater studio at the University of Tübingen. She will succeed Dagmar Leupold in the 2022/23 winter semester. The writer had been responsible for the university’s creative writing program since 2004.
Nancy Hünger, born in Weimar, was already Tübingen town clerk in 2018 and is now returning to her new role. She studied fine arts at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and then devoted herself entirely to literature. Most recently she lived as a freelance author in Gotha.
The winter semester program of the Studio Literature and Theater for the students is already available and can be found on the SLT homepage . The new head of the SLT would like to win further cooperation partners for cooperation in the future. In winter, for example, a joint seminar will be held with the literature archive in Marbach and the University of Stuttgart on the subject of “Women’s literature in the archive”.
The Studio Literature and Theater was founded 25 years ago, in 1997, at the University of Tübingen. Here, students from all disciplines can try out different forms of creative writing. In addition to seminars on prose, poetry and scenic writing, guest lecturers such as authors, theatre, publishing and media professionals regularly teach. The focus is on your own creativity, but it is also about the implementation on the stage, in the radio studio or on the reading platform – supported by cooperation with regional cultural institutions and media.
Awards and publications by Nancy Hünger
In autumn 2008 Nancy Hünger received a Hermann Lenz grant, in 2012 the Dürener Förderstipendium Poetry. In 2011 she was Jena’s town clerk, in 2013 she received a grant from the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben. In 2014 she received the Caroline Schlegel Prize from the city of Jena, and in 2015 the Thuringian Literature Grant Harald Gerlach. In 2018 she was Tübingen town clerk and in 2020 she received a special scholarship from the Thuringia Cultural Foundation.