Judith Hermann

Judith Hermann (b 1970, Western Germany) is an author living in Berlin.

She has a master’s degree in German and Philosophy, and has also trained as a journalist. Hermann worked for a while as a journalist, and made her debut as an author in 2000 with the short story collection Sommerhaus, später (Summerhouse, later). Since then she has published three short story anthologies and two novels. In 2023 she published We should have told each other everything, based on the manuscript she wrote when invited to hold the annual poetry lecture at the Goethe Institute in Frankfurt.

Hermann is considered one of Germany’s best and most stylistically confident authors.