About Charlotte Gneuß
Charlotte Gneuß was born in Ludwigsburg in 1992, after her parents had left East Germany. She studied social work in Dresden, literary writing in Leipzig and scenic writing in Berlin. She is the editor of the anthologies “Glückwunsch – 15 Erzählungen über Abtreibung” [“Congratulations! 15 Stories about Abortion”] and “Diktatur und Utopie – wie erzählen wir die DDR” [“Dictatorship and Utopia – How Do We Talk About East Germany?”]. Her debut novel “Gittersee” was nominated for the German Book Prize in 2023 and won the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Prize for Literature, the aspekte Literature Prize and the Nicolas Born Debut Prize.
