Claudia Kociucki

Claudia Kociucki is a German author, literary stage performer, and artist. She studied language teaching and learning research, Romance studies with a focus on literary studies, and cognitive psychology, and earned a doctorate in intercultural learning. Her professional work included training and coaching, most recently at a university in Germany’s Ruhr region. From 2011 onward, she increasingly turned to literary writing alongside her academic work, publishing stories, scenes, poems, and a Shakespeare adaptation in German, Portuguese, and English. She developed her own stage format for presenting her texts, combining staged readings, theatre, cabaret, and poetry slam. One of her programs is “Gestorben wird immer – oder: Radieschen von oben.” Her other interests included painting, playing the piano, and moderating literary events.