"And no matter where I was, I always met personalities and never 'refugees'."
This book tells of places of flight to which Katja Riemann has travelled. Where are these places and how do people live in the interim? She explores the question of whether people are inventive and creative in the camps, while waiting in the uncertainty. She encounters astonishing people and situations.
With empathy and an eye for detail, she tells of refugee camps on Lesbos and in Jordan.
She visits the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, accompanies doctors through the night on the Bosnian-Croatian border and traumatologists to the Yazidi camps in northern Iraq.
She has also been to McLeod Ganj in northern India, where the world's most famous 'refugee' lives - the Dalai Lama.
"Katja Riemann, with her gift for precise observation and her awareness of human abysses, reveals [...] something that is characteristic of great artists: attitude." - Tanja Kokoska, Frankfurter Rundschau
"’The Time of Fences’ is the book of a great author, with her own language and an awareness of what we lack." - Frankfurter Rundschau, Arno Widmann
"Her book about fences, escape and courage should be school reading" - ntv.de
"A committed, stirring book." - Focus
"‘The Time of Fences’ is a surprisingly entertaining and radically human book with many personal insights." - Amnesty Journal, Nina Apin
"A book that should be read and should be on every bookshelf." - 24books.de, Sven Trautwein
