Lukas Rietzschel, born in 1994 in Räckelwitz in East Saxony, lives in Görlitz. His debut novel Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen (Striking the World with a Fist) was published in 2018, for which he was nominated for the Aspekte Literature Prize and for which he received the 2017 Restzhof Prize for Young Literature. ww.lukasrietzschel.de