Kristin Höller
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Kristin Höller
Kristin Höller was born in 1996 and grew up in Bonn. Until 2019, she studied literary and cultural studies in Dresden. She has written for numerous newspapers and magazines and was the artist in residence at the Prosanova Festival in 2017. She is the winner of the Audience Award and the Preis des Buchhandels at the 10. Poet|bewegt as well as the prize of the Swiss literature festival Literaare 2018. Her debut novel, Schöner als überall, was released by Suhrkamp in 2019. She is a co-organiser of the queer reading series and karaoke show SMASH, and lives in Leipzig.
Kristin Höller was born in 1996 and grew up in Bonn. Until 2019, she studied literary and cultural studies in Dresden. She has written for numerous newspapers and magazines and was the artist in residence at the Prosanova Festival in 2017. She is the winner of the Audience Award and the Preis des Buchhandels at the 10. Poet|bewegt as well as the prize of the Swiss literature festival Literaare 2018. Her debut novel, Schöner als überall, was released by Suhrkamp in 2019. She is a co-organiser of the queer reading series and karaoke show SMASH, and lives in Leipzig.
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Year of Publication: 2024
Kristin HöllerYear of Publication: 2024
The People Before Us
The island of Strand in the Wadden Sea off northernmost tip of Germany: Marlene has just finished university and started working in a shop in a historical village where everything is just the way it was at the turn of the twentieth century – the customs, the tradespeople, the clothing. One great big theatre set maintained by a cast of seasonal workers who live in simple barracks situated beyond...
Year of Publication: 2019
Kristin HöllerYear of Publication: 2019
Better Than Anywhere Else
It starts like a road movie: Martin and his best friend Noah are driving along the autobahn in a rented van. Their cargo: the spear of the bronze Athena on König Square in Munich, a trophy of an ecstatic summer’s night. Six hours later they are back at the places of their childhood: The play streets, the fennel fields, the gravel quarry they left behind years ago. Mugo is back too, smart,...