It's not a big deal that accountant Justus Kratz has allowed himself to get carried away with, rather a venial sin. It does, however, throw his life into turmoil and one of the most important questions of all comes his way: How do you do it right in life? But also: Is it possible to escape learnt constraints? And if so, at what cost?
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Poetic, grotesque, brilliant - Ulrike Damm is an exceptional phenomenon in the German literary landscape! (Joachim Scholl, journalist & literary critic)
Ulrike Damm studied visual communication. She has been working as a freelance designer in Berlin since 1984. In her publishing house Damm und Lindlar Verlag, founded in 2008, she mainly publishes art books. She has been writing novels and short stories since 2010. ‘Die Poesie des Buchhalters’ is Ulrike Damm's fourth work of fiction. The novel ‘Kulp und warum er zum Fall wurde’, the story of a blind man, was also published by DRAVA in 2020. Ulrike Damm congenially links her two lives as a writer and artist in Berlin with monumental typefaces of her texts, which can be seen in exhibitions and artists' books. The Berlin edition frölich published ‘Zwei Wahrheiten des Schreibens’, 2023 and ‘Es will alles gut durchdacht sein ...’, 2024.
Marko Martin lives as a writer in Berlin when he is not travelling. In addition to a collection of essays on Israeli literature and a tribute to Tel Aviv, his books ‘Schlafende Hunde’ and ‘Die Nacht von San Salvador’ were published by Andere Bibliothek, as well as the collection of essays ‘Dissidentisches Denken’ in 2019. With ‘The House in Habana. Ein Rapport’, he was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Essay Prize. Published by Tropen: ‘Die verdrängte Zeit’ (2020) and ‘Die letzten Tage von Hongkong’ (2021).
Additional information
Participating artists
Ulrike Damm
Marko Martin
Dates
April 2025
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