Tag: What are you reading
SZ column: What are you reading right now, Hedwig Richter? – Culture
Hedwig Richter is one of the best-known historians in the country. She is a professor at the Bundeswehr University in Munich and writes books about the history of democracy in…
SZ column: What are you reading, Hadija Haruna-Oelker? – Culture
The publicist Hadija Haruna-Oelker describes herself as “maniacal, addicted to music, hungry for knowledge”. With her book “The beauty of difference. Thinking differently together” she was nominated for the Leipzig…
Anyone who reads a lot as a young person later has a more flexible view of the world – knowledge
Books can change the way you see the world and reality, especially at a young age. Researchers have found out what high readers have over others later in life and…
SZ column: What are you reading, Steffen Mau? – Culture
Steffen Mau, born in Rostock in 1968, is Professor of Macrosociology at the Humboldt University in Berlin. In “Lütten Klein. Life in the East German Transformation Society” (2019) he describes,…
SZ column: What are you reading, Daniela Krien? – Culture
The writer Daniela Krien, born in 1975, lives in Leipzig. her novel “Love in an emergency” was a surprise literary hit in 2019. Most recently she published “Der Brand” (2021).…
SZ column: What are you reading, Mithu Sanyal? – Culture
Mithu Sanyal is a writer and contemporary commentator. After her non-fiction books “Rape – Aspects of a Crime” and “Vulva – Revealing the Invisible Sex”, her debut novel “Identitti” was…
SZ column: What are you reading, Daniel Schreiber? – Culture
Daniel Schreiber wrote his first book, the Susan Sontag biography “Geist und Glamour” (2007), while he was still in New York City. Since then he has lived in Berlin. his…
What are you reading right now? Daniel Kehlmann on literature – culture
The writer and essayist Daniel Kehlmann was born in Munich in 1975 and now lives in Germany and America. His novel “The Surveying of the World” from 2005 is one…
What are you reading right now? Yael Inokai on book recommendations and literature – culture
The writer Yael Inokai was born in Basel in 1989. Last week she received the Anna Seghers Prize for her third novel “Ein simpler Intervention” (Hanser Berlin). SZ: What are…
Literature column: What are you reading, Thea Dorn? – Culture
Thea Dorn, born in Offenbach in 1970, is not only a literary connoisseur, but also a moderator and author of crime novels, plays and screenplays. For the past two years…