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Bad Feminists in German Literature

Plenary Session|Germanophone Feminist and Queer Literature, Film and Culture | Plenary Session

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Plenary Session on the topic of "Bad Feminists in German Literature" with German author, Melanie Raabe, as keynote speaker.

Melanie Raabe, author from Cologne

Melanie Raabe was born in Jena in 1981. After graduating, she worked as a journalist by day - and secretly wrote books by night. In 2015 The Trap was published, in 2016 Die Wahrheit, then in 2018 The Shadow and in 2019 The Woods. In 2020, her first nonfiction book, Creativity, was published, and in 2021 she published her contribution to the KiWi Music Library about Lady Gaga. Her fiction podcast Der Abgrund appeared in 2019, and in 2022 she submitted her novel The Art of Disappearing. In 2023, another fiction podcast, The Quest, and the film adaptation of The Shadow (ZDF neo) appeared.
 
Melanie Raabe publishes a monthly newsletter. She lives and writes in Cologne.


Chair: Jeannette Oholi (Dartmouth College)