Jeder weiss, dass deine Mutter eine Hexe ist

A captivating novel about the most famous witch trial in Germany against Katharina Kepler, the mother of the astronomer and physicist Johannes Kepler, told from the perspective of a strong, independent woman. Leonberg, just before the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War: The imperial astronomer and Protestant Johannes Kepler is not particularly popular with the rulers of Württemberg due to his bold theses on the heliocentric worldview and must go into exile. In the meantime, his mother Katharina is targeted, accused of witchcraft. Rivka Galchen writes from the perspective of "Kätherlin" Kepler, an independent thinker and, in the best sense, a "headstrong" woman involved in this historically documented, long witch trial (1615–21), and poses the question of how powerful independent women were in history. In Galchen's novel, worlds collide—politically, religiously, and socially—at a historical turning point before war, plague, and the onset of the Renaissance.

"This novel contains numerous lessons for our own time about the power of fear and superstition to create evil. Galchen's playfully poetic sentences delight like the magic in fairy tales."

"A wise meditation on the hysterical game of absurd accusations that feels so familiar to us in the internet age.".