Eva Demski

Eva Demski has been with her garden for fifty years now. Time to think about what things should be like moving forward. In her New Garden Stories, she talks about challenges she would never have dreamed of. It’s not just climate change and dealing with the fear of a virus that are giving her a hard time, but also her own age and box hedges that have been ripped out. The only thing that...

God wants it that way. The state wants it that way. Your father wants it that way. But why is there a superior, invisible entity that tells me what to do, what not to do, what to think, what to believe, which profession to have and whom to love? Anarchism puts us on a political and philosophical merry-go-round of which you don’t know when it will stop. Anarchism is not satisfied with...

Despite the odds, a life which shouldn’t have been at all becomes colourful and exciting. Being a constant part of this life, farewells can be countered by encounters and stories though the feeling that this is all a game continues throughout unabated. Eva Demski gathers together others’ lives, those both known and unknown; leading lights of literature like Reich-Ranicki, Koeppen, Kempowski,...