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Writing books was a childhood dream, yet for decades it remained just a fantasy. The demands of daily life and professional obligations simply seemed more pressing. When the time finally felt right, my priority was not to cater to mainstream literary trends—such as "dark romance" novels, cookbooks, self-help guides, or the like. I wanted my stories to be rooted in real life, albeit heightened by the dramatic flair of fiction. I wanted readers to be able to visualize the story, immerse themselves in the narrative, and share in the suspense and emotional stakes. Limiting myself to a single genre felt insufficient; real life is simply too diverse and anything but one-dimensional.
Consequently, my novels tend to be dramatic romances or social dramas—featuring tender yet fragile love stories, romantic political thrillers, and complex interpersonal dynamics marked by conflict and emotional evolution. Themes such as retribution, existential struggles, political tension, international intrigue, and criminal elements often play a pivotal role. These novels explore the complexities of modern conflict, radical retribution, attachment, and love, while offering tragicomic reflections on power, wounded egos, and the interplay of revenge, romance, and personal responsibility. Love and loss are portrayed as a complex web of desire, duty, guilt, and self-doubt. Passion, seduction, and risk—along with emotion, power, and personal accountability—drive the narratives.
The stories depict psychologically complex characters facing extreme situations where the boundaries between love, power, and destruction blur. Connections between central themes and literary motifs—such as love as tragedy or power as an intensifier of conflict—become apparent. Love as both a starting point and a destructive force: Love is never stable!
My stories may contain explicit scenes of an erotic, interpersonal nature. From a dramaturgical perspective, it is appropriate. Anyone wishing to get worked up about this might just as well take issue with what the Sunday *Tatort* or the *Tagesschau* news broadcast subjects us to. In any case, no one comes to harm because of the erotic elements in my novels. Quite the opposite! Everyone involved has a great time! Real life, on the other hand, leaves us dumbfounded almost daily in the face of actual tragedies. Sometimes I ask myself: Shouldn't we be getting worked up about that instead?
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