It all started in primary school, with short stories about my pet rabbit Herbie and his double identity as fluffy companion and superhero, fighting the evil of the world. That’s how I first discovered the joy of creative writing, and the power of creating entire worlds out of thin hare; I also discovered my love for cheesy wordplays.
Even though I continued to write through youth and adulthood, including plays for drama class or later scripts for my own entertainment, my east-german upbringing told me not to follow my dreams. So I tried to become a computerlinguist, then a lawyer, then a teacher. Only when I realised, that I liked the idea of these jobs more than actually doing them, I admitted to myself that I’m a storyteller. And that I need to follow my calling. So I moved to Vienna for act two.