ArGe Phantopia
The reading is on Friday, 08.08.2025 in the Cafe Böcklein Ilmenauadmission 19:30, start 20:00.
Tickets, available in advance for 5 EUR (students) and 8 EUR (earners), are available at the Ilmenau City Information Officethe Ilmenau bookstore and Café Böcklein, one euro more at the box office.
Supported by
Reading with FREYA PETERSEN
Author and illustrator of dark fantasy, comics, prose and everything in between, with a
serious weakness for bold, multi-layered and lost characters.
When she’s not lying on
the sofa expanding her digital cat picture collection, she’s slaving away like a shrimp at her
desk for her studies at the Hildesheim Literature Institute.
Her personal
research focuses on queer and neurodivergent representation as well as worldbuilding in
fantasy and science fiction.
serious weakness for bold, multi-layered and lost characters.
When she’s not lying on
the sofa expanding her digital cat picture collection, she’s slaving away like a shrimp at her
desk for her studies at the Hildesheim Literature Institute.
Her personal
research focuses on queer and neurodivergent representation as well as worldbuilding in
fantasy and science fiction.
Follow Freya Petersen at
The mother of masks – Acid
After the war is before the war
For twenty years, the people of Erzweiden have been at peace, the wisps have been defeated and alchemy has catapulted the town into a golden age. But not for everyone. The price of science is the lives of magical creatures
Fearing persecution, Olga hides her healing powers. Her only ally is her mother Olathe, a will-o’-the-wisp hunter whose fame is based on a lie, because running away from memories is a family tradition.
When new hatred opens up old wounds, not only the relationship between the two women is put to the test, but also the truce between the magical and non-magical – overshadowed by a threat from the moor.
Because the will-o’-the-wisps are back. And they seem to be looking for someone…
The dark fantasy debut from Freya Petersen. Honest. Dark. Queer. An anime to read!
