Tine Rahel Völcker is an author of theatre plays, radio plays and prose. Her plays can currently be seen at Schauspiel Köln and Staatstheater Augsburg. Her prose debut Chantal Akerman's Disappearance was published in 2020. This was followed by her edited volume Frauen der Unterwelt. Queerfeminist Responses to Psychiatric Violence, Sexism and Ableism, which tells the stories of seven women and girls who were declared insane and murdered as part of the Nazi ‘euthanasia’ programme. Most recently, her essay From the Hindu Kush to Buchenwald. Suhrab's flight and the end of human rights in Europe. Her work often addresses the consequences of National Socialist crimes and seeks ways to talk about violence without reproducing it. She has received scholarships from the German Literature Fund and the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul, among others.
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