Johanna Hansen

Johanna Hansen, born in 1955 in Kalkar on the Lower Rhine, studied German and philosophy in Bonn. She works as a writer and painter. Since the early 1990s, her work has been shown in numerous exhibitions, and she has published literary texts in journals and anthologies. She has also worked as an editor, including for the literary magazine Wortschau. Her publications include the correspondence Schreiben ist eine Art von Luftwiderstand with David Oates (2019). Hansen received the postpoetry.NRW Poetry Prize and was a multiple guest of the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris as well as a fellow of the Writers’ House in Ventspils, Latvia.