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KOOK Slow Dating #3 - Stefanie de Velasco trifft Katharina Franck
Kook Slow Dating #3 - Stefanie de Velasco meets Katharina Franck
Event by: KOOK
Location: Harzer Str. 119, Harzer Straße 119, Berlin - Bezirk Treptow-Köpenick
Talks & discussions
About event
In the KOOK series "Slow Dating", two artists meet: Inside from different divisions for an intensive exchange about poetics, politics and the discourses they shape.
On September 9, the author Stefanie de Velasco invited the singer and songwriter Katharina Franck to studio 119. The songs by Katharina Franck and her band Rainbirds have been accompanying Stefanie de Velasco all their lives and have a special meaning for them. At her first personal meeting, she asked the singer about her artistic path. How did she get to music, what were her role models and inspiration? What role does Berlin play for her work - as a creative city, as a place of life, as a protagonist in art? How did the singer experience the 1980s as a queer front woman, and how does the city experience today?
The text letter combines both artists. How do you deal with language, what stories do you want to tell, what are your topics? How strongly influence socio -political discourses and current polarizations? The two also combine the success - and the pressure that arises from it. They talk about how they dealt with it and with creative doubts and how they manage not to lose the joy of artistic work, to stay with themselves and continue to pursue their own way.
Stefanie de Velasco lives in Berlin. She was born in 1978 as a child of Spanish immigrants and grew up in the Rhineland. She writes novels and essays, most recently "Heiss - declaration of love for menopause" (2025). Her debut novel "Tigermilch" (2015) was translated into numerous languages and filmed for the cinema. In 2019 the novel "No part of the world" followed, in 2024 the novel "The grass on our side". De Velasco lives as a freelance author in Berlin and regularly writes u. for dummy, reports and republic. Since 2025 she has also been writing the “middle of life” column in the FAZ.
Katharina Franck was born in Düsseldorf in 1963, grew up in Portugal and Brazil. In 1986 she founded the legendary band Rainbirds in Berlin, her song "Blueprint" from 1987 is a modern evergreen. Franck released six albums with the Rainbirds, three albums with the band Stein and six solo albums. She also produces radio plays and set to music with "Reinhardt Repkes Club of the Dead Poets" poet by Rilke and Fontane. At Moloko Print, her self-documentary text collection "snapshots", a reference work from 1984 to 2023.
A project by the independent artist: Inner-Netzwerk Kook e.V.
Project management: Peter Dietze, Alexander Gumz Finance: Eric Schumacher
Press and public relations: Jutta Büchter
Grafik: Andreas Töpfer
Photo Documentation: Andrea Vollmer
On September 9, the author Stefanie de Velasco invited the singer and songwriter Katharina Franck to studio 119. The songs by Katharina Franck and her band Rainbirds have been accompanying Stefanie de Velasco all their lives and have a special meaning for them. At her first personal meeting, she asked the singer about her artistic path. How did she get to music, what were her role models and inspiration? What role does Berlin play for her work - as a creative city, as a place of life, as a protagonist in art? How did the singer experience the 1980s as a queer front woman, and how does the city experience today?
The text letter combines both artists. How do you deal with language, what stories do you want to tell, what are your topics? How strongly influence socio -political discourses and current polarizations? The two also combine the success - and the pressure that arises from it. They talk about how they dealt with it and with creative doubts and how they manage not to lose the joy of artistic work, to stay with themselves and continue to pursue their own way.
Stefanie de Velasco lives in Berlin. She was born in 1978 as a child of Spanish immigrants and grew up in the Rhineland. She writes novels and essays, most recently "Heiss - declaration of love for menopause" (2025). Her debut novel "Tigermilch" (2015) was translated into numerous languages and filmed for the cinema. In 2019 the novel "No part of the world" followed, in 2024 the novel "The grass on our side". De Velasco lives as a freelance author in Berlin and regularly writes u. for dummy, reports and republic. Since 2025 she has also been writing the “middle of life” column in the FAZ.
Katharina Franck was born in Düsseldorf in 1963, grew up in Portugal and Brazil. In 1986 she founded the legendary band Rainbirds in Berlin, her song "Blueprint" from 1987 is a modern evergreen. Franck released six albums with the Rainbirds, three albums with the band Stein and six solo albums. She also produces radio plays and set to music with "Reinhardt Repkes Club of the Dead Poets" poet by Rilke and Fontane. At Moloko Print, her self-documentary text collection "snapshots", a reference work from 1984 to 2023.
A project by the independent artist: Inner-Netzwerk Kook e.V.
Project management: Peter Dietze, Alexander Gumz Finance: Eric Schumacher
Press and public relations: Jutta Büchter
Grafik: Andreas Töpfer
Photo Documentation: Andrea Vollmer