WRITING
I work on both, fiction and nonfiction projects. My first novel Wir alles, wir nichts was published in 2018. Denkräume. Von Orten und Ideen, an anthology on places and spaces of thinking, came out in 2020 (Rowohlt). In 2023, Natur und Nation. Landschaft als Ausdruck nationaler Identität, my doctoral thesis on the literary Hudson River and the Rhine, came out and is available here. Walk Her Way New York City, an illustrated walking guide to women's history in New York was published in 2025.
I was born and raised in Germany, and while I have written most of my fiction in German, I am increasingly working on projects in English as well. As a translator, I specialize in texts from English into German.
Rooted in walking, Fieldnote Fridays arrives in your inbox once a week — a photo and a short reflection from a walk; a glimpse of the world as I saw it that week. Small, poetic entries — part diary, part field guide.
Out Now:
Walk Her Way New York City
A Walking Guide to Women's History
Walk Her Way New York City is a collection of 10 curated walking tours through New York neighborhoods, each celebrating the city's history and the women that have made their mark here. Authors Jana Mader and Kaitlyn Allen have meticulously researched and traced the city blocks, uncovering important landmarks, events and women's stories, both well-known and forgotten, to create a series of fun and eye-opening walks that connect you to the city that surrounds you.
ESSAYS & SHORT PIECES
Arendt and Translation: Thought, Language, Poetry
"Quote of the Week" for the Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College; April 2023
Melora Kuhn: Tales from the Dark
Text for New York artist Melora Kuhn's new exhibition at Galerie EIGEN + ART in Leipzig, June 2021 (published in English and in German)
Nature as Art
Article about Christoph Heilmann and his collection on display at Lenbachhaus München. In: FORUM. Magazine for scholarship holders of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, p. 52-55 (published in German)
Hannah Arendt and World War I: On Statelessness and the Rise of Totalitarian Regimes
For "Amor Mundi" at Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College, November 2020
Arendt, Hölderlin, and their perception of Schicksal
In: Hannah Arendt Journal of Bard College, Volume VIII, 2020, p. 122-135
portrait photo: AnneRaft Photography