Anna Giannessi

Anna Giannessi, born in Italy, studied Foreign Languages and Literatures in Pisa and Editorial Science at the FU/Berlin. She has been living in Berlin since 2012, where she currently works in the field of cultural management and as a freelance translator; she’s a member of the Berliner Literarische Aktion for which she managed the press office and PR for the Stadtsprachen Festival, the two literature series PARATAXE and Wahlverwandtschaften, among others. Since 2017 she has been involved in organising international readings in the event space ‘ausland’. Anna Giannessi also works at the ifa Gallery Berlin (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) and manages the project Akademie zur Lyrikkritik in Haus für Poesie.