Born and raised in the vicinity of Bremen, she studied Romance Studies (Spanish) and English Studies (with short stays in the respective countries) and worked in the Bremen education sector. Many years ago, she developed an in-depth interest in Earth Sciences and the breathtaking capers of this biosphere and the complexity of what we call ‘nature’. As an amateur astronomer, since 2018 also an astro-photographer, her special interest shifted to the field of global light pollution (ALAN – artificial light at night). She supports several environmental protection organizations, e.g. ‘Sea Shepherds’, and leads the Dark Sky Nord – Bremen und Umzu (https://www.darksky-nord.de/) to open up this underestimated and often still unknown factor in the round of climate cascades to people.
The intensive writing phase and her research on topics relating to Mount Everest for her debut novel ‘Schneetaler’ (Sparkys Edition announced interest) began in 2014. Here, too, ecology is on the tableau. Since summer 2024, she has been working on her second project: ‘Eldekon – mach dich der Erde Unterthan’ (working title). It is a climate fiction novel set in the year 2100. In contrast to many other novels, she is writing an anti-dystopia, in the spirit of Douglas Rushkoff’s ‘Team Human’ and the works of historian Philipp Blom. Catchphrase: Never give up.
As an amateur actress, she works in the ensemble of the Bremen Shakespeare Company in the chorus of ‘Medea’ and in Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’.
I am involved with Climate Fiction Writers Europe because we use stories to reach out to people and motivate them to take action, especially the younger generation, who are asking themselves existential questions. Questions between dystopia and utopia, between imagination and reality, between speculation and factual report can be answered in climate fiction.
My short story “Liebesbrief an Jemanden” (engl.: “Love Letter to Someone”) was published under the pseudonym KC Osvici in Schredder #5, “Zukunft anlocken” (engl.: “Attracting the Future”).
Who lures tempts – and life tempts, seduces, demands all the time: new flesh on old bodies or technical enhancements on outdated bodies?
After circling the sidings, we start thinking seriously about the future:
Is being there really everything?
We want to envision the future.
We want to attract the future.
But how?
Do we lay out breadcrumbs and get frightened by the pecking beaks of monstrous birds?
Do we climb mountains and await the future in the twilight as it creeps over crevices? Do we just wait or do we draw the future towards us? And then?
What will change life, body, togetherness?
Biology, technology or chemistry? Or rather ideas? What new concepts of life and narrative forms can be attracted?
Is cyborgization as a provision for old age an alternative to the mushroom farm?
Who will feed the fridge in the future, what can be made from mold? In any case, I’m saving the titanium plate in my shoulder.