St. Pauli Kirche Gemeindebüro (St. Pauli Kirche)

Enjoy drinks at our house bar and get to know each other

The choir Schall & Hauch, led by Christiane Strenge, invites you to listen to wonderful sounds and a varied repertoire.

The St. Pauli Gospel Choir, led by Jessy Martens and Wulf Winkelmüller, creates a lively atmosphere in the church. Let yourself be inspired and celebrate life with groove and movement.

Elena FischerReadingIn 2023, Elena Fischer was nominated for the Harbour Front Literature Festival Debut Prize for "Paradise Garden." Now she returns to Hamburg with her second novel, "Wirf einen Schatten" (Cast a Shadow)!Joseph lives alone on the farm. His wife left him and moved to the city with their son. The silence she left behind is not new to him; it has always been there. What Joseph hasn't learned: to talk about fear, about war, about love. Just as he begins to accept death as the best way out, the doorbell rings.Birdie is twenty, exhausted, and on the run from her family. As she recovers on the farm and begins to talk about her loved one and her dreams, Joseph confronts truths he has run from his entire life.Elena Fischer's new novel is set in the countryside in the 1960s and tells with fine precision how people save each other without knowing it."Elena Fischer writes with great linguistic power about the fragility of human relationships." Jury of the Aspekte-LiteraturpreisElena Fischer, born in 1987, studied Comparative Literature and Film Studies in Mainz, where she lives with her family. "Paradise Garden" was nominated for the German Book Prize and the Harbour Front Literature Festival Debut Prize in 2023 and has already been translated into 15 languages.

Yang Shuang-ziWinner of the International Booker Prize 2026"Literature cannot fundamentally detach itself from politics," said Taiwanese author Yang Shuang-zi at the award ceremony at the Tate Modern in London, where she received this year's International Booker Prize.She received the renowned literary award for the English translation of her novel "Taiwan Travelogue." The novel is set in occupied Taiwan in the 1930s and tells the love story between a Japanese author and her Taiwanese translator, who travel through the country together. In poetic and artful language, Yang Shuang-zi describes, at first glance, a romantic journey through the country then occupied by Japan, where the two women enjoyably explore the beauty and culinary diversity of the land. Only on closer inspection does the author's literary sophistication become apparent: it is the constraints of unequal power relations and colonialism that ultimately separate the lovers and keep them at a distance. Politics intrudes into the most private sphere. What does it truly mean to try foreign food, and what happens to a relationship when the external dynamics of power relations subtly infiltrate the conversations of the two women?The novel, disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese author, brings to light a long-neglected chapter of East Asian history and was a sensational success in Taiwan.Yang Shuang-zi (*1984) is a novelist, essayist, and literary critic. "Yang Shuang-zi" is her pseudonym and means "twins." It refers to her deceased twin sister, with whom she originally shared it.