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Dominique Haensell © Stefanie Kulisch

dominique
haensell

Writer Editor Translator

Berlin

About

Bio
Writer, editor, and translator. Born in London, raised in Germany, based in Berlin. PhD in Literature / Graduate School of North American Studies (summa cum laude), John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin (2019). Member of the African Atlantic Research Group and Women of Color Resist.
Fellowships
Künstlerhaus Schöppingen, 2026  ·  Literaturhaus Thurgau, 2024  ·  Art Omi, 2023  ·  Rewrite Academy, Alumna  ·  Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, Alumna
Awards
De Gruyter Open Access Award, 2021  ·  Emma Goldman Snowball Award, 2020
Juries
Resonanzen – Schwarzes Literaturfestival, 2022/24  ·  Wilhelm-Raabe-Preis, 2023  ·  Internationaler Literaturpreis, 2021/22  ·  Berliner Künstlerprogramm DAAD Literatur, 2020

Work

Writing (selection)

Autobiographical novel about German colonial history

Luchterhand · in progress

Forthcoming

Making Black History: Diasporic Fiction in the Moment of Afropolitanism

De Gruyter, 2021 · Open Access · De Gruyter Open Access Award

2021

"Ein guter Geist wird ihm zugesprochen"

Festschrift 25 Jahre Literaturhaus Thurgau

2025

"Category: Bad Bitch"

Missy Magazine, 2022 · repr. in Mädchen*fantasien, Waxmann Verlag, 2024

2022

"Die Angst" / "The Fear"

other-writers.de

2024

Also published in

Missy Magazine

incl. seven cover stories

Fabrikzeitung

"Fembot Fictions", 2016

Talks, Workshops & Moderation (selection)

Lecture & reading — Temporalities and Power

Universität Bonn · The Way It Really Was: Historical Fiction, Raced Temporalities, and the Refusal of Aesthetic Closure

2025

How (Not) to Report About Africa/Asia

Workshop with Charlotte Ming · Racial biases and colonial tropes in everyday media coverage — identifying clichés, examining journalistic neutrality, and developing more inclusive narratives

Moderation

Dekoloniale Festival Berlin  ·  Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin  ·  Poesiefestival Berlin  ·  Institut français  ·  Kampnagel  ·  Reeperbahn Festival  ·  Frankfurter Buchmesse  ·  a.o.

Translation & Editing (selection)

Lewis R. Gordon — Fear of Black Consciousness

Angst vor Schwarzem Bewusstsein · Ullstein / Claassen

2022

Michaela Coel — Misfits

Misfits. Ein Manifest · Ullstein

2021

Earl Lovelace — Five poems

Rhinoceros

2024

Weiterschreiben

Literary platform for writers from war and crisis zones

Missy Magazine

Co-editor-in-chief

2020–25

Clients & collaborators

Belvedere Wien MMK Frankfurt mumok Wien Berlinische Galerie Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin Ullstein btb Claassen Propyläen De Gruyter Aki Verlag Waxmann Verlag DISTANZ Bard College Berlin Hebbel am Ufer a.o.

Contact

For translation, sensitivity reading, copy editing, curatorial consulting, moderation of readings, panels and literary & art events —

Emailhello@dominiquehaensell.com

For literary inquiries —

Agentalfio.furnari@landwehr-cie.de
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