Bestselling author Daniel Schreiber: Grief doesn’t go away – culture

The essayist Daniel Schreiber sounds completely relaxed on the phone and is looking forward to a phase of calm and pause. And that despite the fact that he has just arrived in the Ruhr area, this patchwork of small and large city structures with a high density of traffic jams and canceled trains, with “a lot of greenery, but little wilderness,” as the philosopher Eva von Redecker noted. She was one of Daniel Schreiber’s predecessors in the Metropolenschreiber Ruhr program. Wolfram Eilenberger also belongs to this circle. He described his arrival in the Ruhr area as follows: “Moving through the area by car on a hazy autumn day is like the experience of diving through a 100-kilometer pool of pea stew.”