Şeyda Kurt liest aus »Zeit der Monster«

In the organizer's words:

The place is a neighborhood. The time is the apocalypse. At least that's what more and more people believe, spurred on by a prophecy that's raging through the net. Meanwhile, young Sanya wanders through the wild, broken neighborhood, where people stick together despite everything, a pistol in her backpack - until one day she meets a strange figure.

Between furious epic and the most colorful pop, between existential opera and the warmest soap opera, Şeyda Kurt asks what opportunities lie in the disintegration of all orders. Sanya and her dazzling family of choice are deeply entangled in the history of their community, which spans borders and time. Can we live differently? Stirring, clever and all-changing, this event of a novel debut shouts: yes.

"What a tribute to so many lives that have never been told."
Fatih Akın

Şeyda Kurt, born in Cologne in 1992, studied philosophy, Romance studies and cultural journalism in Cologne, Bordeaux and Berlin. As a freelance journalist and columnist, she writes for various print and online media, including ZEIT ONLINE. As an editor, she worked on the Spotify original podcast 190220 - Ein Jahr nach Hanau, which won the Grimme Online Award in 2021. In the same year, Medium magazine named the editorial team as journalists of the year. In her bestseller Radical Tenderness. Why love is political, she examined love in the force field of patriarchy, capitalism and racism. This content has been machine translated.