ALL YOU CAN READ with Lin Hierse and Dana Vowinckel

Curated by Josephine Apraku and Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç

“How does literature change when writing and reading take place at the kitchen table?” ask Josephine Apraku and Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç in the new reading series ALL YOU CAN READ.

For the second edition, they welcome authors Lin Hierse and Dana Vowinckel to brunch to discuss texts, memories, family influences, and political issues, all with their mouths full!

The event is aimed at anyone who wants to understand literature as a living, sensory experience—and who is curious about what happens when writers and readers come together to share a meal.

ALL YOU CAN READ moves literature from the podium to the dining table—where it often originates in the first place.

The table is set, be our guests!

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The Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion supports all events in the ALL YOU CAN READ reading series.

Lin Hierse is a writer and journalist. Her texts have appeared in publications including taz, Die Zeit, and literary journals. In her novels Wovon wir träumen (Piper, 2022) and Das Verschwinden der Welt (Piper, 2024), food plays an important role—as a sign of affection and connection, but also as a site of familial and societal pressures.

Dana Vowinckel is an author and studied linguistics and literature in Berlin, Toulouse, and Cambridge. Her debut novel Gewässer im Ziplock has received numerous awards, was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, has been translated into multiple languages, and adapted for the stage.

Josephine Apraku is an African studies scholar and writer. Among their friends and family, Josephine is known as a reliable source of excellent food. The kitchen table is Josephine’s workplace and laboratory. This is where their writing takes shape – often late at night or early in the morning, in the gaps between everyday life. 

Ozan Zakariya Keskinkılıç is a political scientist, writer, and poet based in Berlin. His debut novel “Hundesohn” (Suhrkamp, 2025) moves through queer intimacy, memory and religion — tracing how bodies, desire, and language are shaped by rituals, loss, and love across shifting geographies.