Katharina WENTY

With more than 500 performances in over 15 countries, Katharina Wenty (*1995, Korneuburg) is one of the most internationally successful slam poets in the German-speaking world. As a filmmaker, she has already been part of several short film festivals, as well as a winner of - among others - the Media Literacy Award, the Zeit:impuls Short Film Award. In 2018, she won the title of Poetry Slam National Champion for Vienna, Lower Austria and Burgenland and was a finalist at the European Poetry Slam Championship in Budapest. She has been publishing since the age of 18, and in 2022 her book Hautflügelmieder, funded by a grant from the City of Vienna, was published by Lektora Verlag. Her interdisciplinary women's ensemble Lingua:Lyra, which combines historical music with modern poetry, not only won the HUGO Award for new concert formats in 2023, but also the Playground Competition of the HfM Detmold and its Diversity Award. As chairwoman of Poetry slam'md - Verein für Bühnenkunst, Literatur und Jugendkultur (Association for Stage Art, Literature and Youth Culture), she organises and moderates monthly poetry slams with an international focus in and outside Vienna. She also co-curates and moderates the Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival, the second largest poetry film festival worldwide. 

More info and photo (c): www.katharinawenty.com

  • Instituto Cervantes Brussels
  • It Skriuwersboun
  • Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity
  • Embassy of the Republic of Latvia to the Kingdom of Belgium
  • Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Belgium
  • Etxepare Euskal Institutua
  • Spain Arts and Culture - Cultural and Scientific Service of the Embassy of Spain in Belgium
  • Permanent Representation of Lithuania to the EU
  • Leeuwarden Europan Capital of Culture 2018
  • LOFT 58
  • Embassy of Sweden
  • Ville de Bruxelles
  • Camões Instituto de Cooperação e Língua Portugal
  • Polish Institute - Cultural Service of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Brussels
  • Mission of the Faroes to the EU
  • Orfeu - Livraria Portuguesa
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Slovenia to the European Union
  • Lithuanian Culture Institute
  • Yunus Emre Institute
  • Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren
  • Scottish Government EU Office
  • Danish Cultural Institute
  • Embassy of Andorra
  • Greenlandic Writers Association
  • LUCA School of Arts
  • Hungarian Cultural Institute Brussels
  • Austrian Cultural Forum
  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura
  • Romanian Cultural Institute in Brussels
  • Embassy of Ireland
  • Swedish Institute
  • Ambassade du Luxembourg à Bruxelles
  • Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union
  • Commission européenne
  • Permanent Representation of the Republic of Estonia to the European Union
  • Czech Centre Brussels
  • Greenland Representation to the European Union
  • MuntPunt