Sabine Macher was born in ten year old West Germany, a country that has now vanished. She left it for France in 1976, where she writes, dances and takes small photographs that she looks at while travelling between Paris and Marseilles. Recent books include Adieu les langues de chat (2002), Le poisson d'encre dans ma bouche n'est pas à sa place (2003), Portrait Inconnus (2004) and himmel und erde, followed by the carnet d'a (2005).