Kathrin Röggla (born in Salzburg in 1971) lives in Cologne and works as a writer of prose and plays. Her most recent publications are her essay collection Nichts sagen. Nichts hören. Nichts sehen. (S. Fischer, 2025), her novel Laufendes Verfahren (S. Fischer, 2023), and her play Kein Plan (Kafkas Handy), which premiered this February. She has received numerous awards for her literary work, most recently the Else-Lasker-Schüler-Prize, the Austrian Art Prize for Literature, and the Heinrich Böll Prize. She is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, where she served as vice president from 2015 to 2024. She teaches creative writing at the KHM in Cologne, was a member of the RBB Broadcasting Council until 2025, and, together with Leopold von Verschuer, runs a “alteration writing” workshop in Cologne's Weidengasse.