Our authors

Thomas has been writing short stories and novels for ten years ("Faxed – Dystopia Berlin, 2021 & "Hands Don't Lie," Fall 2025). He is one of the two founders of WORTPALAST.

Thilo is one of the WORTPALAST founders, has been writing short stories and haikus for eight years, and this year is publishing his first novel, the Prague crime novel "Mr. Volansky Goes on the Prostitute."

Zuzana Říhová is a literary scholar, award-winning author, and professor at the PSCC Prague. Her Kafka novella "The Secret of Metamorphosis" was published in German this year by WORTPALAST.

As a copywriter for a renowned advertising agency, Sepp has been a wordsmith for decades. He is currently working on a novel and has published several short stories in WORTPALAST.

The founder and director of textcollective Berlin is the "patron saint" and spiritual father of WORTPALAST. He writes short stories and works as an editor and literature lecturer.

Helma is the founder and director of the Berliner Kompagnie, a renowned political theater company, for which she has written nearly 50 plays. She has contributed several stories to the WORTPALAST collections.

Tobias is an experienced journalist and author of wonderful short stories. Some of these can also be found in the WORTPALAST collections. He is currently working on several novels.

Angela not only works as a copywriter and experienced proofreader, she has also contributed to the WORTPALAST portfolio as a wonderful narrator of short stories and poems.

Among our young authors is Brazilian Mariana, who, with subtle smugness, recounts the development of full lips and, incidentally, describes a murder. Mariana also manages the English-language blog at WORTPALAST.

If time could stand still, Rebecca Wayth would be the author who could fill entire books with this subject. Is there a genre called nanoliterature because the precision of the most detailed observations is disturbingly real and yet as fascinating as an advanced chemistry set? If not, Rebecca invented it with her short stories and poems in GROWING PAINS .

GS Quinn is one of our youngest authors, whose complex stories are multi-layered, profound, and always a bit dark. She also works as an internal colleague at WORTPALAST and demonstrates her sensitivity for good literature by editing and maintaining our web blog.

It's rare for a Berlin author and comedian to demonstrate his talent for dark humor with absurd short stories, thus writing himself into the spotlight at WORTPALAST. Franz Ratte manages to do this, but encounters with the public are abysses he prefers to avoid.