Miku Sophie Kühmel: Hannah

Two daughters of the city of Gotha: one, Hannah Höch, born in 1889, became the grande dame of Dadaism and one of the most important artists of classical modernism. The other, Miku Sophie Kühmel, born in 1992 and a much-noticed young voice in German literature, traces Höch's life in her new novel.
At the center: a queer love, a new era, a liberation.
It is the 1920s when Til meets Hannah and Hannah meets Til. A decade together begins. First in The Hague, then in Berlin, the artist and the author spend the last big parties and moments of tender togetherness. But from summer to summer, their life and work together turns out to be increasingly challenging, under pressure from the political threat of National Socialism. In "Hannah", Miku Sophie Kühmel carefully and poetically puts together the picture of a love that has to measure itself not only against the abysses of its time.

Miku Sophie Kühmel, born in Gotha in 1992, studied in New York and Berlin. The writer and podcast producer published her debut novel "Kintsugi" in 2019, for which she was awarded the "aspekte Literaturpreis" and the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Prize and which was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. Her second novel "Triskele" was published in 2022, with which Miku Sophie Kühmel was nominated for the 2023 Clemens Brentano Prize. She has received scholarships from the Alfred Döblin House of the Academy of Arts, the Künstlerhof Schreyahn and the city of Gotha, among others.