Literaturfestival Nah und Fern im Metropolengerten - Julia Hoch: Frau Putz

Frau Putz is a novel about "the little woman" that cleverly asks: How is the value of a person judged?

Kerstin Wischnewski is a self-employed cleaner - and she is losing orders. Unexpectedly, she receives a saving offer to take on a colleague's well-paying and very special regular clientele. While working for a ghostly artist, an old lady chatting with pigeons, the pug-faced Richard III and between talking coffee machines, Kerstin has to be scrupulous about which rooms she is allowed to enter and when distance is necessary or closeness unavoidable. In the process, one question in her mind keeps getting louderJulia Hoch: Frau Putzer: Who respects her and her work?

"Frau Putz" was awarded the Meißen 2025 Literature Festival Prize.

Julia Hoch was born in Solingen in 1982 and lives in Bochum with her husband and two sons. She studied cultural studies (specializing in literature) in Hagen and prose writing at "Textmanufaktur". She is currently completing an additional degree in Modern German Literature. Her texts have appeared in anthologies, literary magazines and on literary websites. She is co-founder of the literary promotion project "Prosa:ist:innen", co-editor of the literary magazine "introspektiv" and a member of the Association of German Writers, the Federal Association of Young Authors and the LiteraturKollektiv Bochum.

Frau Putz is a novel about "the little woman" that cleverly asks: How is the value of a person judged?

Kerstin Wischnewski is a self-employed cleaner - and she is losing orders. Unexpectedly, she receives a saving offer to take on a colleague's well-paying and very special regular clientele. While working for a ghostly artist, an old lady chatting with pigeons, the pug-faced Richard III and between talking coffee machines, Kerstin has to be scrupulous about which rooms she is allowed to enter and when distance is necessary or closeness unavoidable. In the process, one question in her mind keeps getting louderJulia Hoch: Frau Putzer: Who respects her and her work?

"Frau Putz" was awarded the Meißen 2025 Literature Festival Prize.

Julia Hoch was born in Solingen in 1982 and lives in Bochum with her husband and two sons. She studied cultural studies (specializing in literature) in Hagen and prose writing at "Textmanufaktur". She is currently completing an additional degree in Modern German Literature. Her texts have appeared in anthologies, literary magazines and on literary websites. She is co-founder of the literature promotion project "Prosa:ist:innen", co-editor of the literary magazine "introspektiv" and a member of the Association of German Writers, the Federal Association of Young Authors and the LiteraturKollektiv Bochum.

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