Biographical
I was born in Nuremberg and probably fell off the changing table... onto a typewriter. There is no other way to explain why I developed an addiction to writing and reading from primary school onwards.
In said elementary school I wrote a short story, "Ayse," about a Turkish girl. This story was lost - I guess that's a mercy. In the 11th grade, my heart almost stopped because I was summoned to the principal. But the crime was just that I submitted a short story to a competition and won a prize. The principal wanted to know which teacher had supported me. Well, the competition was simply posted on a bulletin board.
Manic times followed at my high school's student magazine "Klecks". We won prizes several times in Bavaria, and I fell in love with the editor-in-chief.
After graduating from high school, I studied modern German literature, theater studies and English - with excursions into journalism. I worked in Berlin as a freelance film and literature critic, in Düsseldorf as a PR editor and at various language schools.
Today I live in Switzerland, where I work in education at a university, ... when I don't write.
I have just finished a novel about a historical female figure. Psst...