Katharina Picandet, born in 1974 in Hannover, Germany. I studied German Language and Literature, History and Philosophy at Universität Hamburg, Germany, and Université Bordeaux III, France, from 1995 until 2001 - only to return to university later part time and upgrading my MA into a PhD in German Literature in 2009. 
 
I have been a member of the Edition Nautilus crew since 1996, first in sales, then in press relations, and as an editor since 2003. I became co-CEO in 2016, when we transformed the publishing house into a limited liability company, and I am in charge of Edition Nautilus’ foreign rights.
 
Edition Nautilus 
is an independent publishing house located in Hamburg. Founded in 1974 in the aftermath of the 1968 events, we publish German and international fiction (Isabel Fargo Cole, Shumona Sinha), crime novels (Jérôme Leroy, Matthias Wittekindt), and mostly political essays (Laurie Penny, Jack Urwin, Invisible Comittee). Our focus in non fiction publishing is on left-wing / anarchist, ongoing political and social debates, such as on feminism, toxic masculinity, urbanism, animal rights, class action, etc. We also publish (auto-)biographies of outstanding personalities like Emma Goldman, Che Guevara, Frantz Fanon, Buenaventura Durruti, Nestor Makhno, Rosa Luxemburg and the like. 
In our fiction we simply publish what we like to read: original, literary prose with an edge of form an unusual point of view.