Figurine - Teotihuacán culture - Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany. [Source Wikimedia. Licence: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.]
Teotihuacán Pottery Bird [Teotihuacan Gallery, INAH, National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico City. Source Wikimedia. Licence: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.]
Dry Dock in a brick building in the 424 Van Brunt Street. Backsteingebäuse an der 424 Van Brunt Street mit dem Wein und Spirituosengeschäft. Red Hook, New York, USA. 21. April 2012. [Source Wikimedia. Licence: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.]
View from the Sonora Desert Museum. Aussicht auf Landschaft mit Saguaros und anderen Sukkulenten im Arizona Sonora Desert Museum. 28. Dezember 2017. [Source Wikimedia. Licence: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.]
Red Hook Night Manhattan. Blick von Red Hook nach Manhattan im Dunklen. 21. April 2012. [Source Wikimedia. Licence: Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication.]
I write socially critical scenarios as well as loose novels in the eco-science fantasy genre. As a contemporary witness to the counterculture, I showcase outsiders and underdogs. My soldiers of fortune fight for democracy or environmental protection, they defeat a drug cartel or uncover a political intrigue. Always with palace revolution & co. Although there is sometimes fierce fighting, I consistently avoid depicting bloody scenes of violence or deaths. There is also always a happy ending, guaranteed.
In my worlds I give space to our nature — i.e. animals, plants, protists, fungi — the same rights as us humans. There are no dirt sparrows, dirt finches, horned oxen and only tofu steaks. My protagonists are always confronted with some form of environmental destruction. Or they address our ignorance towards our earthly (plant or animal) inhabitants, including overexploitation, toxic waste and waste, in pointed dialogues. Always ecological, logical.
To represent my idea of coexistence, loveable, personified shapeshifters usually appear in my future worlds in all constellations between animals and plants. They are not enemies, but companions of the good guys. I have chosen this as my trademark.
I was influenced by the culture of the First Nations, especially in Mexico and the Andes. Their mythologies such as about mystical winds or magical stones touch my book worlds.
1. Favorite reading book: Bolivar by Gerhard Masur.
2. Favorite picture book: David A. Carter’s Pop-Up Books for Children of All Ages.
3. Favorite non-fiction book: Chile. Ein Schwarzbuch (A Black Book).
4. Favorite movie: Avatar (because of the dragon gliding).
5. Favorite series: Grizzy and the Lemmings.
6. Favorite flower: Bumblebee flower with a fat giant bumblebee.
7. Favorite tree: Cedar with bees and honey.
8. Passionate animal lover.
A total of seven cheeky Mittelschnauzer (Medium Schnauzer) in 25 years. Flown in: ornamental pigeon and two budgies. Walked in: three cats. My Christmas Eve foundling BKH Maine Coon Golden Tabby with beautiful golden eyes would have been seventeen years old and was my muse until August 2022. I miss him. Categorical bareback rider until scene discos were in.
9. My new muse
A tomcat in Red Tabby Mackerel with a white clown nose and white chest. Magnus Diamond Forest, called Ubu (like King Ubu) is a Norwegian Forest cat. He is super lively, caught his first mouse in our apartment (secretly), but paws at everything if he doesn't get his way, ignoring scolding.
10. Favorite music: I won't tell or read Shoot the Freak and guess. I have a '56 462 Höfner Archtop Catseye that would come off if I had practiced.
1. Landlords or fathers who mow lawns down to the turf and kill poor wildflowers in the process.
2. New landladies or city gardeners who trim nice, flowering bird bushes into ugly stumps with white cut edges. Here I recommend asphalt and flower pots in XS, plants the size of a cemetery, sorry, grave size.
3. People who pull weeds. (Because there are only wild herbs, you extinctors!)
4. Landlords who radically tear down ancient ivy (because it lives so beautifully in it) and leave bare, dingy walls instead. Please read about it, completely, completely new: Über den Tod eines uralten Efeus und drei Stufen von Egoisten.
5. Landlords who irreparably destroy an ancient biotope, style a garden like a sports field (unobstructed view of cars and mailboxes) and leave no square meter for bee flowers, pollinators, hedgehogs, birds and frogs.
6. People who yell at their deaf dog.
7. Those sharp anti-pigeon thorns that adorn all the beautiful buildings and declare us Homo sapiens.
8. Booking records.
9. - 5,000,000. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to write books.
Born in 1961 in the coal and mining town of Bottrop in Germany, when water still flowed from the rustic, rusty giant cooling towers and the smell of sulfur polluted the air. Grew up in Mülheim/Ruhr and Kleve, a bordertown with the Netherlands, in a hands-on entrepreneurial family that sold work suits by the thousand to large industry and did business with Eastern Europe when only diplomats were allowed to travel to the East.
Twelve years of young fashion boutique with avant-garde fashion. Berlin. Bremen. Trade fair and event management. Realized freelance special projects in international marketing and worked in the management of a high-tech company in Vienna. She lived within walking distance of the Prater, whose lively hustle and bustle inspired her. Author and online retailer for art prints since 2013. In 2017 she moved to a patch of moorland in the country to devote herself exclusively to art. Plans to return to a global metropolis in 2024.
Between 1975 and 2009, 16 volumes of the Mariañaca saga, each with five hundred pages, were created in loose succession. In the Pan-American saga, the protagonist fights with his human rights organization against a drug lord. The experimental private project is self-published unabridged.
An Ecotopia/Solar-Punk/Two-Worlds series in six volumes was started in 2014 and on February 23rd, 2024 - finally! - completed.
Three novels were written in 2021 - 2023: A long, long high fantasy novel with several shots of gunpowder fantasy, a space opera thriller and a dystopia thriller romance.
A climate fiction short story has been published, two more are finished, three are in progress.
A YA/NA fantasy novel and a fantasy crime series are planned.
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