MIKU SOPHIE KÜHMEL »HANNAH«

“… a deeply inspiring novel, a magical ‘Simsalabim’ book, with a keen sense of the vibrations of love and time”
Deutschlandfunk

It is the 1920s when the Dada artist Hannah Höch meets the Dutch author Til Brugman. A decade together and a great queer love story begin. First in The Hague, then in Berlin, the two experience the last great parties and moments of tender togetherness. But from summer to summer, their shared life and creative work increasingly prove to be a challenge, under pressure from the political threat posed by National Socialism. In *Hannah*, Miku Sophie Kühmel gently and poetically paints a picture of a relationship that must measure itself against more than just 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 for a longer period 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 2019 Jürgen Ponto Foundation Literature Prize and the 2019 *aspekte* Literature Prize. She has received fellowships from, among others, the Alfred Döblin House at the Academy of Arts, the Künstlerhof Schreyahn, and the City of Gotha. In 2022, her second novel, *Triskele*, was published, for 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 the Literaturhaus Bonn and explores the intersections of literature and the visual arts. Kühmel’s novel *Hannah* ties in beautifully with a recent expansion of the Kunstmuseum’s collection: thanks to the Fitting Collection Foundation, two Höch collages have been added to the collection.

Supported by the Kunststiftung NRW