Poems That Glow

To mark the festival’s 2025 anniversary year, the motto GLOW let young voices shine — through a poetry competition for children and young adults. The submissions were truly impressive: poems in German, English, Arabic, and Hindi, some even illustrated. In three age categories, the three most outstanding poems were honored. The first-place winners each receive free admission for themselves and their entire class to a reading in the Young Program.

Here are the award-winning poems

Age Group I – Grades 4-6

1. »Glow« by Zoé Summer Heiling
2. »Osterfeuer« by Arthur
3. »Glühwürmchen« by Elias

Age Group II – Grades 7-9

1. »Glanz/لمعانالفتاةالذياليظهرإالفياألحالم« by Ruqayah
2. »Glow« by Maude Edmunds
3. »Die Tiefe der Angst« by Ella Brandt and Madita Leni Joschko

Age Group III – Grades 10-12

1. »Suffering, Slavery and Sudden Silence« by Muhammed Sever
2. »Leuchten trotz allem«
3. »Erwachsen werden«