Press release of 15, Juni 2025
PEN Berlin: Lucy Fricke, Ijoma Mangold and Daniela Sepehri join the board
At an extraordinary General Assembly on Sunday, PEN Berlin filled vacancies on its eleven-member board and admitted new members. Newly elected to the board are writer Lucy Fricke (»Töchter«), poetry slammer and human rights activist Daniela Sepehri, and journalist and author Ijoma Mangold, writer for Die Zeit.
Among the 35 new members are director and writer Doris Dörrie; authors Valerie Fritsch and Helga Schubert; publicist Roger de Weck; historian Andreas Rödder; satirist Paula Irmschler; philosopher Wolfram Eilenberger; and Britta Egetemeier, a publisher at Penguin/Random House.
Since its foundation in June 2022, PEN Berlin has grown to encompass around 700 members. The next regular General Assembly will take place on 30 November in Berlin, the day after our annual cultural congress. As in the past three years, this will be attended by renowned writers, publicists, and intellectuals from Germany and abroad.
PEN Berlin. We stand by our word.