BATHROOM
Apartamento Magazine
There’s a room in every house where the light is best. In my parents’ house, it used to be their tiny bathroom. This was where they rushed any of us children in case of an emergency. They’d even put a kind of bar stool in front of the window, right beneath the ceiling lamp, to bring our bodies even closer to the light… Read More
GOTT
Hanser Verlag (Anthology)
Translated by Milena Adam
15 Autorinnen und Autoren schreiben über ein Thema, über das in der Literatur bislang geschwiegen wurde: Abtreibungen. Nuanciert, schonungslos und aufrüttelnd erzählen sie von Mutterschaft und Freundschaft, von religiösen und politischen Zwängen und den drastischen Folgen sexueller und rassistischer Gewalt. Doch so verschieden die Welten und Erfahrungen der Protagonistinnen auch sind, der unbedingte Wille zur Selbstbestimmung eint sie alle. Read more
FRITZ
HEAT Literary Journal
That’s where I found him, my mother said. That’s where he must have collapsed. Lying on his side, that’s how he met his inevitable fate. I laughed when my mother told me about this. There was something funny about picturing Fritz and his unshapely body in front of something as banal as a fridge… Read More
HOUSE PARTY
ASTRA Magazine
It wasn’t easy to get invited to your housewarming party. Or rather to get my colleague with the ridiculous mustache invited, so that I could come along under the pretense of a fetish for his facial hair. You know how he always goes on about his alleged Athenian grandfather, and how he takes pride in the European nature of his curls. Recently he even started wearing a golden necklace to prove his point and I wonder when he is going to start speaking with an accent. It’s all gotten worse since you left the company and I’m still wondering why exactly people enjoy growing pubic hair on their faces.… Read More