Ronya Othmann (*1993 in Munich) has been studying at the German Literature Institute Leipzig since 2014. She works as an author and journalist, writing poetry, prose, and essays. Together with Cemile Sahin, she writes the column OrientExpress in the taz. Ronya received the MDR Literature Prize, the Caroline Schlegel Prize for Essay Writing, the Poetry Prize of the Open Mike, the Gertrud Kolmar Prize and the Audience Prize of the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition. Since 2021 she has been writing the column „Import Export“ for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. Hanser published her debut novel „Die Sommer“ (2020), for which she was awarded the Mara Cassens Prize, and „die Verbrechen“ (poems, 2021).

In Schöppingen, Ronya Othmann was able to complete her volume of poetry “die verrechen”. She wrote new poems, sorted and revised them. Ronya researched terror and archeology. The poems thematically revolve around nature, escape, memory, archeology, terror and extinction. The volume of poetry has now been published by Hanser Verlag.