Tag: What are you reading
SZ column: What are you reading, Karosh Taha? – Culture
Karosh Taha’s second book “In the Belly of the Queen” plays, like her debut “Description of a Crab Migration”, among Kurdish families and young people in the Ruhr area. Taha,…
SZ column: What are you reading, Hans Joas? – Culture
Hans Joas, born in Munich in 1948, is interested in how values come into being. He is Ernst Troeltsch Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Humboldt University in Berlin…
SZ column: What are you reading, Eva Geulen? – Culture
Observing and examining books is Eva Geulen’s profession. The literary scholar is director of the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research in Berlin. She recently published a study on…
SZ column: What are you reading, Shida Bazyar? – Culture
Shida Bazyar, born in Hermeskeil in 1988, knows how to write about the Iranian revolution as well as right-wing terrorist violence in contemporary Germany. Her second novel, “Three Comrades”, was…
SZ column: What are you reading, Christian Baron? – Culture
Christian Baron’s literary themes are social background, class society and the working-class milieu. In the novel “A Man in His Class”, which won the Klaus Michael Kühne Prize, he tells…
SZ column: What are you reading, Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger? – Culture
Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger shines far beyond her academic discipline, history. In 2017 she received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize for her work “Maria Theresia”, a biography of the Habsburg empress. Barbara…
SZ column: What are you reading, Heinz Helle? – Culture
The writer Heinz Helle, born in Munich in 1978, has two children, which could definitely play a role in this context. In his forthcoming forth novel “Wellen” he deals with…
SZ column: What are you reading, Asal Dardan? – Culture
Asal Dardan, born in Tehran in 1978, grew up in Cologne, Bonn and Aberdeen after her parents fled Iran. She studied cultural studies and Middle East studies and became an…
SZ column: What are you reading, Eva Menasse? – Culture
Eva Menasse made a name for herself as a journalist and then switched to becoming a novelist. Her current novel, “Dunkelblum” tells of historical guilt and of how the inhabitants…
SZ column: What are you reading, Lena Gorelik? – Culture
Lena Gorelik, born in Leningrad in 1981, lives in Munich and is the author of novels and non-fiction. “Who we are” was published last year, the story of a family…