Eiscafé Europa

When did Europe's ghosts return? And how can we dispel them? In Eiscafé Europa, Enis Maci weaves together memory, politics, literature, and history, creating a tapestry of a threadbare continent. She retraces a youth spent among the ruins of the coal age, and turns to gender traitors and enemies of the state – Joan of Arc and Sophie Scholl, Albania’s long-gone sworn virgins and the Jewish nun Edith Stein. Maci questions mother tongue and origin, and dissects the Identitarian Movement’s fascist lineage, media strategies and make-up techniques. Described as »razor-sharp, wonderfully meandering, incredibly entertaining and unsettling at the same time« (Spiegel Online), Eiscafé Europa is a work of poetic precision.

»[Maci’s] down-to-earth tone and simultaneously razor-sharp analysis are remarkable – and some of the many ways she frustrates the social expectations connected to her position.« Missy Magazine

»Enis Maci is a fabulous essayist.« Juli Katz, Die Zeit

»Enis Maci has a knack for gaining knowledge through close observation, perhaps because, as a trained dramatist, she has learned how to work with poetic interruptions, with moments of stasis. The self at the heart of Enis’s texts is an intractable and bold one, but one with a sense of humour.« taz. die tageszeitung

»What is post-internet literature? Texts for which the net is more of a natural state of mind than a theme. And Enis Maci is a great essayist of the genre.« Süddeutsche Zeitung

»Enis Maci is the essayist of the hour. Her analyses are razor-sharp, wonderfully meandering, unbelievably entertaining and frightening, and all at the same time.« Spiegel Online

»Enis Maci’s volume of essays connects all the types of texts and forms of articulation of our time effortlessly, ruthlessly and ingeniously. [...] Personal, political, social, radical.« supervision