Anne Kollien

Anne Kollien (*1990) is a psychologist, poetess and photographer based in Berlin and the province of Brandenburg, Germany.

Kollien’s poetry is likely to be categorized as spoken word, everyday life, feminist, love, nature, political and poetological poetry or the overlapping of the already mentioned. In her early years as a poetess she took part in the open poems programme of Haus für Poesie (engl. House for poetry). Since 2017 she performs her poetry on stages in Berlin and its surroundings. The most recent project of Anne Kollien is called poetstream, making her recorded poetry available on all major streaming platforms. From 2019 to 2022 she organized lectures together with members of the literary group Literaturgruppe Federflug. In 2022 the poetess initiated the foundation of a poetry collective in the city of Potsdam, in which she is active till present day. In 2023 she joined the German poetry network Netzwerk Lyrik and the network of the free literary scene Berlin (Netzwerk freie Literaturszene Berlin, nflb).