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Political thinking and radical speaking – Kathrin Röggla’s essays and plays
Our reality resembles a disaster movie, a worst-case scenario, a Shakespearean royal drama: financial crises, media hysteria, private paranoia. Kathrin Röggla uses her critical imagination and her intelligent language to offset that reality. She analyses and dissects the state of our times: fictitious alarms, real-life fears and false desires. With enthusiasm and consistency, wit and playfulness, her essays and plays cast an unsparing light on our present day.

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  • Publisher: S. FISCHER
  • Release: 07.03.2013
  • ISBN: 978-3-10-066062-6
  • 416 Pages
  • Author: Kathrin Röggla
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Kathrin Röggla

Kathrin Röggla, born in Salzburg, works as a prose and theatre author and develops radio plays. She has been awarded numerous literary prizes for her work, including the SWR-Bestenliste Prize (2004), the Arthur Schnitzler Prize (2012) and the Wortmeldungen Literature Prize (2020). Her most recent publications are ‘Nachtsendung. Unheimliche Geschichten (2016) and the novel ‘Laufendes Verfahren’, for which she received the Heinrich Böll Prize for Literature (2023). Kathrin Röggla has been Professor of Literary Writing at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne since 2020.