Karla Schmidt is a German writer and editor. In 2009 she received the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis for short fiction for the story Weg mit Stella Maris.^[1] She also edited the anthology Hinterland and contributed the story Erlösungsdeadline to it. It was a science fiction and slipstream anthology with stories inspired by David Bowie songs. Besides Schmidt Dietmar Dath and others were in it.^[2]