Kathrin Rohmann lives near Hanover in the north of Germany. She is a trained farmer and an agricultural engineer. First she wrote stories for her own children, then for a Germans children`s magazine and the radio until later her first book was published. With help from the “Akademie für Kindermedien” in 2014-2015 her book Apple Cake and Baklava about a Syrian girl losing her most important memento, a walnut from home out of the garden of her beloved Grandmother, became a wonderful story of losing and finding, of longing and hoping, of friendship and arriving. The Sound Merchant is her latest book about a wonderful person with a magical shop and a big heart. He finds sound-solutions for every funny, scary and even strange wish of his costumers.