As part of the Paderborn Children's Literature Days on 24 and 25 June, award-winning children's and young adult author Stefanie Höfler will be coming to Paderborn University. All interested parties are cordially invited to two events without prior registration. On Monday, 24 June, Höfler will first give a lecture followed by a discussion in room O1 from 2 to 3.30 p.m. on the topic ‘Finding the easy in the difficult. How confidence keeps creeping into my young adult novels about so-called ‘problem topics’". From 4.30 pm to 6 pm, the author will also be reading from her young adult novel ‘Feuerwanzen lügen nicht’, which has been nominated for the German Youth Literature Prize in 2023. Admission is free in both cases.
About the author
Höfler's young adult novels deal with difficult family relationships, violence, bullying, being an outsider and loss. At the same time, however, they also convey confidence in the midst of difficult life situations, as they always tell of friendship, courage and hope. In addition to her young adult novels, she has also published two critically acclaimed children's books to date: ‘Helsin Apelsin und der Spinner’ (2020) and her most recently published book about quiet and loud feelings, ‘Ameisen in Adas Bauch’ (2024). Stefanie Höfler's language for young readers is sensitive and poetic, precise and full of humour.
About the Paderborn Children's Literature Days
The Paderborn Children's Literature Days are a series of events organised by the Department of German Literature Didactics at the Institute of German and Comparative Literature at Paderborn University. Every two years in the summer semester, an author from the field of children's and young adult literature is invited to Paderborn. Linked to literature didactics seminars, students have the opportunity to meet the author, analyse and discuss their works during the two to three-day guest stay at the university. In workshop discussions and interviews, they learn about the multifaceted everyday life of writing and the specifics of writing for children and young people. The event format also includes a public reading, public lectures by the author and readings for invited school classes in the university's studio theatre.
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