Kathrin Schmidt

Kathrin Schmidt (born 12 March 1958 in Gotha, Bezirk Erfurt), is a German writer.

The poems are characterized by strict metre, powerful, sensual language and frequent use of puns.

The novels, sometimes classified as magical realism due to the baroque fullness of the stories, also show Kathrin Schmidt as a powerful author with an exuberant imagination, who has been compared by critics to the early Günter Grass and Irmtraud Morgner.

To date, her greatest literary success is the autobiographically tinged novel Du stirbst nicht.

[1] In it, the author describes the illness and recovery story of the writer Helene, who is confronted with the lack of control over her body after a stroke and must relearn language.