Kathrin Röggla

Kathrin Röggla (1971) is a writer living in Cologne, Germany, and works as a prose and theatre author as well as developing radio plays. Her novel ‘Laufendes Verfahren’ (S.Fischer) and the play ‘Das Wasser’ (Reclam) were published in 2023. She has received numerous prizes for her literary work, most recently the Else Lasker Prize (2022), the Grand Salzburg Art Prize (2023) and the Heinrich Böll Prize (2023). She is a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, of which she was Vice President from 2015-2024, and the Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung. She teaches literary writing at the KHM in Cologne and is currently a member of the RBB broadcasting council.