>She was born in northeast Berlin in 1975. At age eleven, she wanted to become a writer, but at some point she must have lost that ambition. Perhaps it was because of her first German teacher, who made her feel as though she wasn’t allowed to use words because she didn’t spell them all correctly. She studied stage design and worked in theater, and at night she sold novelty items at a variety show. But the entertainment industry was too regimented for her, and the theater wasn’t exactly a peaceful place. In her early twenties, she started having children and studying photography. That was peaceful. But she couldn’t support her children on photography alone. She worked as a self-defense instructor at elementary schools, made lampshades at home, opened a shop with her sister, and produced all sorts of other things. She had found a man who wrote and thought: The words and punctuation marks belonged only to him. But he said it wasn’t so important to know where the commas went, but only whether you had something to say—and she did. He gave her a new computer with all the letters. She’s been using it ever since. In 2015, her first novel, “Sommerdreieck,” was published by Rowohlt Verlag, and she was awarded the “lit.COLOGNE” Debut Prize. But because part of her soul still lies in photography, Kehrer Verlag simultaneously released her photo book “Sieben Jahre Luxus.” Her second novel, *Die Gewitterschwimmerin*, was published by Eichborn Verlag in 2018 and was nominated for the German Book Prize. Eichborn Verlag also published *Die Glasschwestern* in 2020 and *Keine von ihnen* in 2022. Her fifth novel, *Am Ende der Kleinigkeiten*, will be published by Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt in the spring of 2026."< (Franziska Hauser)

The author was awarded the residency fellowship at the Künstlerhaus Bamberg by Bavarian Minister of State Markus Blume, at the suggestion of the Villa Concordia literary fellowship board members Tanja Graf, Director of the Literaturhaus München, and Dr. Wolf Iro of the Goethe-Institut e.V. She will be working there for 5 month from October through March 2027.