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Ronya Othmann © Beliban zu Stolber
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Ronya Othmann (b. 1993 in Munich) writes poetry, fiction and essays and is a member of the GID poetry collective. Being herself the daughter of a Kurdish-Yazidi father and a German mother, Ronya Othmann deals with themes of migration, homeland and war. In her poetry she sees language as material that can be joined closely together, made to make playful sounds and even be crossed out, and with which she catches moments as in miniatures. Since 2014 she has been studying Literary Writing in Leipzig. To date she has published in such anthologies and magazines as BELLA Triste, the Jahrbuch der Lyrik, TAZ am Wochenende and in LITERATUR SPIEGEL. She is co-editor of the poetry anthology Ansicht der leuchtend Wurzeln von unten (poetenladen 2017). Awards include the 2013 Leonhard and Ida Wolf-Memorial Prize of the City of Munich, a residential fellowship in the Künstlerhaus Lukas in 2015 and the 2015 MDR-Literature Prize. In 2017 she won the Caroline Schlegel Promotion Prize in the Essay category and the Open Mike for Poetry.
Awards:
Leonhard und Ida Wolf-Gedächtnispreis 2013
MDR-Literaturpreis 2015
Residency Scholarship of the Künstlerhaus Lukas 2015
Poetry Award at 25. open mike 2017
Caroline-Schlegel-Förderpreis 2017