Hannah Höch – a queer love, a new era, a liberation
It is the 1920s when Til meets Hannah and Hannah meets Til. That is, Hannah Höch, one of the few female Dada artists, and Til or Mathilda Brugmann, an immensely talented and underrated Dutch writer and translator.
A decade-long love story begins, unfolding first in The Hague and later in Berlin. Together, the women travel all over Europe, host lavish parties and share moments of tender togetherness. But from summer to summer, their life and work together face mounting pressure, challenged by the growing threat of National Socialism.
In "Hannah", Miku Sophie Kühmel carefully and poetically pieces together a picture of a relationship that has to measure itself against more than just the abyss of its time. A devoted novel about a love lived, the value of art, a woman's self-determination, and a past decade that could not be more present.
“Til Brugman was a modern-day Punch (...) her endless, tumbling, sarcastic, crazy ideas, which ‘danced’ on a vast storage of knowledge, made the years I spent with Til some of the most exhilarating of my life.” - Hannah Höch
"No one has ever written about love so sensually and beautifully." - radio eins, Felix Palent
"Kühmel tells stories in a lively, witty, and humorous way." - Eßlinger Zeitung, Gaby Weiß
"great literary fun" - Bayern 2 Kulturleben, Niels Beintker
"One of the mosaics where each stone has been crafted with particular care." - rbb Literaturagentinnen, Kristof Magnusson
"Kühmel is one of the most promising literary voices of her generation." and "Kühmel impressively demonstrates how, under authoritarian regimes, private life takes on a political dimension that affects women in particular." - republik, Thomas Hummitzsch
