Why Fantastic Literature?

Are you familiar with that feeling? You have to read a scene five times, six times, ten times because you want to experience the magic in it again and again? The thrill when a magical moment in a book turns into your own? Such experiences can stay with you for weeks, months, sometimes even a lifetime. Stories shape you, it's always said. I want to add: But moments shape you even more! A story sets the framework. However, it is the individual moment that really matters. That's how I see it. When I read a book, I always chase those rare moments that have the power to move, to shake and leave you fulfilled. In writing, it has become my highest ambition to create this kind of magic myself. The fantastic and fairytale-like seems to me particularly suitable to achieve this. In Fantasy we willingly open up to amazement. It is, in my opinion, an important skill that cannot be cultivated enough. Of course, this does not mean that I will never make excursions into realism. I would never deny reality its miraculous qualities, or banish amazement from our everyday lives. After all, curious things can be found as soon as we step out of our doors. Behind every corner there is lurking something worth writing about!