Anna Gillis

With her silent protest in front of the Swedish parliament building in 2018, Greta Thunberg, then 15 years old, initiated a global movement. Students and young adults have been organizing Fridays for Future strikes for three years now, demonstrating for a better future and against inaction in the face of a climate catastrophe that is already taking place.

In her artistic work, Marion Siéfert searches for theater in the depths of our increasingly digitalized reality. She uses the stage and its long tradition of playing with identity to create a world in which reality and fiction blur into one another, but at the same time brutally collide. In this gamified parallel world, she encounters dozens of players who increasingly cast a spell over her. Among them is twenty-seven-year-old Julien, who invites her to try out the newly released game «Daddy».

Brimming with neologisms and the sound of Denglish, in her new novel «Tick Tack» Julia von Lucadou takes a deep dive into the world of Generation Z. 15-year-old Mette announces her intention of throwing herself on the U-Bahn line in TikTok videos. No one reacts, but she is saved anyway.