Ronja von Rönne - Harbour Front Literaturfestival

Reading

In “Alles Liebe,” Ronja von Rönne tells the stories of people who love, lie, become dependent, or make others dependent on them.

Even as a child, Laura understood how pity works. Barbara fills her empty house with mail-order catalogs and a man who doesn’t exist. Heike has lived for thirty years in a house that belongs to her mother-in-law and dreams of a garden she’ll never have. Through her art, Christina shrinks the world because she can’t bear it otherwise.

It has been said of Ronja von Rönne’s writing that her words need “no story, no plot, no pathos—they need only themselves” (Berliner Morgenpost). She has a talent for “turning even the most tragic moments into something comical” (rbb). Deutschlandradio describes her tone as “sharp, humorous, sometimes tender.”

Ronja von Rönne, born in 1992, is a writer, journalist, and host. In 2015, she read her work at the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize. From 2017 to 2022, she hosted the show “Streetphilosophy” on Arte. Since fall 2023, she has been appearing in the new show “Unhappy.” She writes for *ZEIT* and *ZEIT Online*. Her novel *Ende in Sicht* became a bestseller.