May 2026
Why not? Opossums have a vocabulary too. So it is not unusual for an opossum to pick up a pen and paper to reach for literary heights. Unfortunately, opossums belong to the literary outsiders of the literary scene. They are ignored, torn apart by critics, or have to fight simply to be seen, so as not to disappear into the masses of writers.
Jonas came to writing at a very early age. As a child, he loved to read. Writing was therefore always a part of him. He started in 2018 with essayistic texts. The narrative elements then led him to short prose. Back then he was still writing for the drawer, meaning he wrote primarily for himself. Over a longer period of time, he kept notes, which he wrote in college notebooks. He had at least twenty of them – filled cover to cover with drafts, literary sketches and illustrations.
Over time he developed a feel for stories. Today those notebooks no longer exist. He destroyed them all. His life was not always easy. And so one day last winter he sat down and started writing again. From the three months in which he focused solely on writing, many short prose texts and fragments of thought emerged, which he then collected and published under the above pseudonym – initially as a self-printed book. In August he was given the opportunity to be published in a literary journal.
He is therefore still relatively at the beginning, even though he has been writing for almost ten years. Writing has accompanied him ever since. He has just published a freely accessible literary journal. The opossum keeps writing, tries to build a small readership, and is curious to see how the journey into the vast depths of the literary world will unfold.