Over five days in June, the NATURE WRITING FESTIVAL HAMBURG 2025 will present current trends and topics in the traditional and currently booming genre of nature writing in talks, lectures and readings. Participants include authors from Germany, Sweden, the UK, Iceland, Denmark, the Netherlands, Ukraine and the USA. The festival starts with evening readings, followed by three themed days and concludes with an excursion. The festival is the first of its kind in Germany.
17th to 21st of June 2025
Talks | Lectures | Readings | Excursion
The festival is currently in the preparation phase. The program will be published in February 2025. If you would like to receive updates, please subscribe to our NEWSLETTER.
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What is Nature Writing?
Reporting on nature. Writing with it as a motif. Even writing for nature. This has a long tradition in Germany, just think of Goethe and Kant. The genre has experienced a new boom thanks to authors from the Anglo-American world. In Germany, the tradition has been revived by bestselling author Katharina Hagena, non-fiction writer Birgit Lutz and many others.
What is the festival about?
Focus on nature! A wide range of knowledge is brought to the fore – literary and scientific. It’s about water, clouds, waves. Seas, lakes, rivers. Mountains, valleys, hills. The sky and the stars. About the foundation of man and nature.
Which authors are coming?
Katharina Hagena, Jan Philipp Reemtsma, Birgit Lutz, Karsten Reise, Marie Gamillscheg, Bernhard Kegel, Gianna Molinari, Hartmut Böhme, Doris Feil, Uwe Rada, Miek Zwamborn, Lothar Frenz, Graciana Petersen, Leo Bader, Antje Rávic Strubel, Tilo Wesche, Hella Kemper, Michael Schikowski, Laura Kranich, Bernd Marcel Gonner, Anna Katharina Woebse, Markus Thielemann, Lena Frings, Bernd Heinrich, Brigitte Helbling, Norbert Fischer, Laura Burgers, Helmut Schreier, Mona Harry, Jan Röhnert, Esther Kinsky, Georg Toepfer, Marion Poschmann, Dominik Eulberg and others.
Who is the festival for?
Nature is a place of longing for everyone. Together with the cooperating foundations such as the Loki Schmidt Foundation, the public librariesand the University of Hamburg, the festival is aimed at a broad audience: nature lovers, students of natural sciences and humanities, people interested in literature, science and the environment. Members of the many environmental groups and local heritage associations, hiking clubs and outdoor sports enthusiasts. Admission to the central events is free.
Supported by the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Ministry of Culture and Media