Sonja Ruf & Mirjam Phillips - Sinnliche Erzählungen und Kurzkrimis zum Thema Liebe

In the organizer's words:

Author:inside reading with Sonja Ruf and Mirjam Phillips

In Sonja Ruf's collection of sensual stories "The River Bath Miracle" about
chance encounters, the female characters encounter moonlighters, call boys, psychologists
black workers, call boys, psychologists, entertainers, beggars and car washes.
car washers. They act experienced or naively exuberant, but in any case
their adventurous desires turn their whole lives upside down. Sonja Ruf tells
socially accurate, committed to reality, but she allows the miraculous, the uncanny
the uncanny. The title story "Das Flussbad-Wunder" is set during the Corona period, in which the heroine not only
in which the heroine has lost not only her love but also her parents, whereby a
seemingly genuine miracle puts everything in a different light.

In Mirjam Phillip's stories, the criminal element plays the most important role in the plot.
often with idiosyncratic humor or satirical elements.

Sonja Ruf grew up in the northern Black Forest, is a trained bookseller and studied in Frankfurt am Main.
and studied Medieval and Modern History in Frankfurt am Main. She has lived in Leipzig,
the Rhön and in Saarbrücken before moving to Bremen in 2023. Her novels and
and stories, for which she has received numerous awards, deal in the broadest sense
about the longing for love. To this end, she developed her very own
language for female eroticism. In 1996, her first novel was awarded the
Klagenfurt for the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition. Sonja Ruf also deals with
the effects of modern working environments on people's feelings and has also
and also wrote the highly acclaimed children's novel "Mallows oder Katzengrütze".

Mirjam Phillips studied Hispanic and American Studies in Great Britain and
worked for many years as a lecturer in Cambridge. After her return to Bremen
she taught English and Spanish at a grammar school. Phillips writes
short crime novels and is the editor of three crime fiction anthologies. In 2013 she was nominated for the
NordMord Award nomination. In 2016 / 2017 she was a guest lecturer for creative
Writing at the University of Bremen. The author heads the Northwest regional group
of the "Murderous Sisters".
Organizer: "Kulturraum Horn-Lehe" (citizens' association Horn-Lehe e.V.)

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