Literatur im Museum - MIKU SOPHIE KÜHMEL »HANNAH«

In the organizer's words:

Moderation: Dominik Renneke

" ... a highly stimulating novel, a Simsalabim magic book, with a great feel for the vibrations of love and time"
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It is the 1920s when the Dada artist Hannah Höch meets the Dutch author Til Brugman. A decade together and a great queer love affair begin. First in The Hague, then in Berlin, the two spend the last big parties and moments of tender togetherness. But from summer to summer, their life and work together turns out to be increasingly challenging, under pressure from the political threat of National Socialism. In "Hannah", Miku Sophie Kühmel carefully and poetically puts together the picture of a relationship that has to measure itself not only against the abysses of its time.

Miku Sophie Kühmel was born in Gotha in 1992. She studied literature and media studies - briefly in New York and longer in Berlin, where she now lives and works. She is a freelance writer and produces various podcast formats. Following publications in anthologies and magazines, her debut novel "Kintsugi" was published in 2019, for which she was awarded the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Literature Prize 2019 and the "aspekte" Literature Prize 2019. She has received scholarships from the Alfred Döblin-Haus of the Akademie der Künste, the Künstlerhof Schreyahn and the city of Gotha, among others. Her second novel "Triskele" was published in 2022, with which Miku Sophie Kühmel was nominated for the 2023 Clemens Brentano Prize.

The "Literature in the Museum" event series is a collaboration between the Kunstmuseum and Literaturhaus Bonn and explores the intersection of literature and the visual arts. Kühmel's novel "Hannah" combines beautifully with a current addition to the Kunstmuseum's collection: thanks to the Fitting Collection Foundation, two Höch collages are new additions.

Supported by the Kunststiftung NRW.