Kathrin Bach, Reading, 2022 – Photos: Jennifer Clews
Kathrin Bach
„Lebens versicherung“
Kathrin Bach (*1988, Wiesbaden) receives the literary fellowship to work on her project “Lebensversicherung” (“Life Insurance”), a partly fictional, partly autofictional collage of lyrical prose. The first-person narrator, who comes from an insurance salesman’s family in provincial West Germany, suffers from an anxiety disorder. The story links typically German elements such as “German Angst” and the West German insurance system and combines psychological aspects with pop cultural references.
Kathrin Bach studied literary writing in Hildesheim from 2008-2014. She lives and works in Berlin.
Reading Kathrin Bach – Stadtgalerie Künstlerhaus Lauenburg, 2022 – Photos: Dirk Eisermann
Final Presentation Reading Fellowship Literature
Fellowship holder Kathrin Bach in conversation with Nefeli Kavouras about her novel project “Life Insurance” 16 September 2022