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FANCIES by Ellie Lewerenz

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All's Well That Ends Well

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2019

• 30th May: Dear Mrs Woolf adapted from the letters of Virginia Woolf by Christine Lehnen, starring Lisa Pohlers, Theaternacht 2019, Brotfabrik Bonn
• 1st June to 9th June: Monologue of a Woman Writer; for the Frankenstein Festival at the Brotfabrik Bonn

2018

• 6th April to 14th April: And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie (starring as Judge Wargrave), Brotfabrik Bonn
• 18th May to 23rd May: Fancies by Ellie Lewerenz (directed by Christine Lehnen and Ina Habermann), FEATS Festival, Antwerp, and Brotfabrik Bonn
• 10th November 2018, 16h: European Balcony Project Bonn, Münsterplatz, Bonn

Christine Lehnen has three great passions: books, the theatre, and Europe. Oh, and food. She has been writing fiction her entire life and teaching creative writing at the University of Bonn since 2014. Her directorial debut at the FEATS Festival in Antwerp 2018 received two nominations; her short stories have been awarded the prizes of the Young Academies of Europe and the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen. She likes her stories European, with a side of feminism and a pinch (or two) of queer. (Have we mentioned she also likes food?)

Christine has lived in Canada, the United States, Australia, and Paris, and is now based in Bonn where she writes, teaches, researches fiction and spends her free time directing plays as well as promoting a federal, social and united Europe: sometimes on public squares right under the nose of Ludwig van Beethoven, sometimes on twitter, sometimes in newspapers. While finishing up two postgraduate degrees, one in Political Sciences and one in English Literatures and Cultures, she advocates for a European prize for literature and helps young writers without industry connections, for example by providing a platform for young writers at the University of Bonn to meet agents or by serving as judge of the Young Literature Award of her hometown Recklinghausen (going strong since 2015!). She has written for German and French newspapers and outlets such as Le Taurillon and the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. Her novels, written in English, are published all over; for a taste of the fantastic, go find her under her pen name C. E. Bernard (honouring her grandmothers), who has most recently written the PALACE saga (Blanvalet, 2018); for a taste of suspense, stay tuned to discover W. F. Reynold (honouring her grandfathers), who will be out with an exciting new project with Avon Books in 2019. Her research has been published in the Journal of Literary Theory. More often than not, you will be able to find her on a train flitting to and fro in Western and Central Europe or the United Kingdom, realising once again that she has forgotten to bring lunch, and proceeding to buy all the croissants that live in Bruxelles Midi.

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