Mirjam Wittig
area: Literature
Key Facts
nationality
Germanyarea
Literatureresidence
Berlinrecommending institution
BMEIAtime period
January 2025 - February 2025Mirjam Wittig (b. 1996) studied Philosophy, Cultural Studies, and Creative Writing. In Hildesheim, she worked as co-editor of the literary magazine BELLA.triste and as part of the artistic direction team for the PROSANOVA festival. Since then, she has occasionally taken on teaching assignments in Creative Writing as well as in sociocultural work, most recently as part of an initiative for dance in elementary schools.
Following publications in anthologies and journals, her debut novel, An der Grasnarbe (At Ground Level), was published in 2022 by Suhrkamp Verlag. Before its release, the novel received the GWK Prize for Literature in North Rhine-Westphalia and a scholarship from the Literary Center Göttingen. She is currently working on her second novel, for which she will receive the 2024 working grant from the German Literature Fund, as well as essays and a series of poems that were invited to the 2023 Leonce and Lena Prize competition.
During her residency at MQ, Mirjam Wittig will be working on her second novel. It features: Moor, which becomes waterlogged again and moves independently through all the stories; Esther, who doesn't know what to do with her anger; Sima, who becomes a miracle; the past of the region, which is stored in the soil; beavers also appear and build a dam.