As humans we will always listen to stories, read stories and write stories. My novels Writer, Screen and Sacred Heart, Bone and Blood and Michel-Michelle connect on themes relevant to me as a writer explored under Gender A-Z, Ulster and in Blog. Exchanging stories provides fuel for connection through our imagination, empathy and intuition.
Schriftsteller, Bildschirm & Sacred Heart / Writer, Screen & Sacred Heart
Gunther hat sich ein zurückgezogenes Schriftstellerleben an der Westküste Irlands eingerichtet. Seine Geschäftspartnerin Daphne tritt öffentlich als Autorin seiner Romanreihe über Femizide auf. Das Angebot einer Streaming-Option unter Nutzung von KI stürzt ihn in eine tiefe Krise. Die modernste Technologie, die ihnen zur Verfügung gestellt wird, ruft Geister seiner Vergangenheit in Deutschland und Irland hervor und zerstört Illusionen, auf denen sein Leben basierte. Wird Gunther als Schriftsteller überleben?
Writer, Screen and Sacred Heart
Gunther has set up a secluded life as a writer on the West coast of Ireland. His success depends on his business partner Daphne who poses as the author of his novels on femicide. An offer of an option to stream his novels using AI throws Gunther into a deep crisis. The advanced technology placed at his disposal awakens ghosts from his German and Irish past and shatters the illusions on which he has built his life. Will Gunther survive as a writer?
Writer, Screen and Sacred Heart published September 2026 in German and English as an e-book.
Michel – Michelle
In my second novel Michel-Michelle, potential fatherhood brings back Axel’s memories of his life with his “three mothers” – his transgender “father”, his birth mother and her lesbian partner. Challenged by his wife Sophie, he reflects on his father’s transition from male to female and his own transition from child to adult parent.
Gender A-Z
The 26 letters of the Gender A-Z is my commentary on my 70 years of struggle with gender. How can we increase awareness of diversity in ourselves, our friends and our families?
Bone and Blood
Manipulation of diversity to create right-wing populist movements motivates me to explore US versus THEM. My first novel, Bone and Blood, published 2014 was inspired by a visit to a Ravensbrück concentration camp where some Irish women had been imprisoned. The novel is set in Berlin in 2005 when Aisling arrives from Dublin and extracts her great-aunt Brigitte’s story of her time in Nazi Germany. As they wait for the funeral of Brigitte’s lesbian daughter, Aisling learns as much about herself as about the past.
All Different: All Equal
My non-binary, Ulster identity has been formed by the 1960’s civil rights movement in Ulster, in the 1970’s women’s and gay rights, in the 1980’s Travellers Rights and Children’s Rights. In the 1990’s, I wrote up a European campaign All Different: All Equal for the Council of Europe.
Ulster
Brexit provoked a series of blogs on my life on the Ulster Border including connection to other Ulster writers.