I was born in Kassel in 1968. Growing up in the countryside sparked my two greatest passions in life: a love of nature and a love of books. My goal is to write entertaining books about serious topics, and Ursula K. Le Guin, Douglas Adams, Andy Weir, and Becky Chambers are my greatest role models when it comes to writing and storytelling.
My approach increasingly focuses on exploring how we can overcome our societal conditioning to protect ourselves and nature from a climate catastrophe.
I am convinced that the key lies in our ability to trust one another, build communities, and acknowledge facts so that we can act accordingly. My main goal is to inspire hope through interesting stories and insightful facts.
I'm involved with Climate Fiction Writers Europe because I've been writing climate fiction novels for a decade now, and this topic still strikes me as the most important one of our time.
Two beings who save each other’s lives:
a cat and a woman.
Five hundred years after the final climate collapse caused by a failed geoengineering project, Regina awakens in a cryogenic sleep capsule. She is alone and remembers neither her life nor her mission.
The little cat that woke her up is proof that nature is once again kind to its creatures. But does that also apply to humans?
While in Anette Schaumlöffel’s first science fiction novel, *A Second Chance*, the protagonists escape the destruction of their home in spaceships, *The One Who Awakened* shows what happened next on Earth.
Journey into the Heart of a New World
Ragin has awakened after five hundred years of cryosleep and, above all, wants to explore—in peace—a world where the climate catastrophe is now just a faint memory. Then another survivor from her time calls out for help. Reluctantly, she leaves her safe station to solve his problem. She expects the trip to take just a few days.
Fortunately, she didn’t leave her cat, Alice, behind, because—of course—things don’t go as planned. Instead of flying over the wilderness, the two companions plunge deep into it. Along the way, Ragin gets to know the communities of surviving humans and discovers entirely new sides of herself. But she can’t stay anywhere until she has fulfilled her mission.
Along the way, she must face dangers, not the least of which is her own overconfidence.
In the third volume of the trilogy, Ragin finally reaches Roger in the neighboring enclave. His cry for help prompted her to undertake a long journey, and it is high time she arrived.
Like her, he, too, has awakened from cryosleep near newly rebuilt human communities. His kind heart—and perhaps also his loneliness—have led him to share his knowledge and technology. Unfortunately, with fatal consequences.
Ragin witnesses an unjust society in which women are subjugated to men with no chance of changing their fate. But her arrival does not go unnoticed, and unintentionally, she sets a chain of events in motion that threatens to become an avalanche.