Figurine der Teotihuacán Kultur, Ethnological Museum, Berlin, Germany.
Blick von Red Hook nach Manhattan im Dunklen.
Backsteingebäuse an der 424 Van Brunt Street, Red Hook, New York, USA.
I write novels and short stories in the genres of science fiction, fantasy and solar punk, as well as real-world scenarios. My works touch on socially critical or political grievances or eco-topics.
Although there is sometimes fierce fighting, I categorically avoid depicting scenes of violence. There is no content that is given content notes. I also always write a happy ending, guaranteed.
I grant our living creatures (flora & fauna) the same rights as us humans. Nature is never demonized, only the weather.
In my future worlds, lovable shape-shifters live in all constellations between animals and plants. They are partners and can communicate with us.
I am impressed by the culture of the First Nations in Mexico and the Andes. Their mythologies about mystical winds or magical stones touch on my book worlds
Favorite reading book: Bolivar by Gerhard Masur.
Favorite picture book: David A. Carter’s Pop-Up Books for Children of All Ages.
Favorite non-fiction book: Chile. A Black Book.
I’m currently reading: Peter Soyer Beagle I’m Afraid You’ve Got Dragons.
Favorite film: Avatar (because of the hang gliding).
Favorite series: Grizzy and the Lemmings.
Dune 2 could go to favorite heaven.
Favorite music: I won’t tell you or read Shoot the Freak and guess.
As a passionate animal lover, I am currently accompanied by a Norwegian Forest Cat in Red Tabby Mackerel White, with a white clown nose, white chest and white paw tips like a ballerina. He looks - almost - exactly like the cat on the right that the AI rendered for me when I entered the term oriole. His name: Magnus Diamond Forest, called Ubu, like King Ubu.
Last cultural event: Kirchner’s Woodcuts in the Bremen Kunsthalle in December 2024. I discovered that woodcuts are interesting and different from what I knew. And the exhibition was wonderfully curated. Congratulations!
Born in the coal metropolis of Bottrop, back when huge amounts of water still flowed from the quaint, rusty giant cooling towers and the smell of sulphur polluted the air. Grew up in Mülheim/Ruhr and Kleve in a hands-on entrepreneurial family that sold work suits in packs of a thousand to large-scale industry and did business with Eastern Europe when only diplomats were allowed to travel to the East.
Managed my own avant-garde fashion boutique for many years. Then trained in trade fair and event management. Freelance specialty shops in international marketing until I took over the management of a high-tech company in Vienna. From Vienna, Praterstern, I moved to the Moor in 2017 to devote myself to art.