Alexandra Tobor

Alexandra Tobor (born January 10, 1981 ) is a German writer and podcaster .

Live and act

Tobor lived in Poland until she was eight , when she and her family came to Germany as an emigrant . After graduating from high school, she wrote reviews for Spex magazine and worked in the editorial department of VIVA Polska in Cologne. She then studied sociology and art history at the University of Marburg .

Alexandra Tobor has been running a literary weblog since 2010 , which reaches a broad online audience via her Twitter account with around 21,000 followers. Her debut novel, Sitting Four Poles in a Car , humorously deals with the immigration of a fictional Polish family to Germany. It contains autobiographical parts and can be assigned to the genre of migration literature. The novel reached number 24 on the Spiegel bestseller list in the “Paperback non-fiction” category.

Alexandra Tobor has been Holger Klein's interlocutor on the podcast Die neue Wrintheit since February 24, 2013 . In addition, since June 5, 2013, Tobor has published In dry books, her own podcast, in which she presents and summarizes non-fiction books on various topics. Since February 19, 2017, she has also been producing the podcast Anekdotisch Evident , in which she and Katrin Rönicke talk about culture and science in monothematic episodes . Her second novel Minigolf Paradiso was published by Rowohlt in 2016 . Alexandra Tobor lives in Augsburg today.

Publications

2016: Miniature Golf Paradiso . Reinbek: Rowohlt, ISBN 978-3-499-23630-3 .
2010 - today: literary weblog "Toborisrobotspelledbackwards" with essayistic and literary contributions
2009: Qualitative evaluation research on the Internet - online forums as tools for interpretative social research In: Nikolaus Jackob (Ed.): Social research on the Internet. Online survey methodology and practice. Wiesbaden: VS publishing house for social sciences. ISBN 978-3-531-16071-9 .
2012: There are four Poles in the car . Berlin: Ullstein, ISBN 978-3-548-28374-6 .

Web links

Literature by and about Alexandra Tobor in the catalog of the German National Library
Website
In dry books (podcast)
The Wrintheit (Podcast, with Holger Klein)
Criticism on n-tv.de
Criticism in the FAZ

Individual evidence

↑ Twitter , January 10, 2016
↑ Author's page from Alexandra Tobor on ullstein-buchverlage.de
↑ MehrAlsTaxifahren.de | Interview with Alexandra Tobor. July 9, 2017. Retrieved July 16, 2017 .
↑ Twitter account @silenttiffy by Alexandra Tobor
↑ There are four poles sitting in the car. In: buchreport.de. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .
↑ WR152 The New Wrintness: The Polish Woman's Inner Beard | WRINT. In: wrint.de. Retrieved June 24, 2013 .
↑ The secret profession of podcaster. In: alexandratobor.de. Archived from the original on August 12, 2015 ; Retrieved October 4, 2013 .
↑ Anecdotally Evident - Culture and Science through the Prism of Chatting. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Tobor, Alexandra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German writer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 10, 1981

[1] Twitter , January 10, 2016

[Quelle1-2] Author's page from Alexandra Tobor on ullstein-buchverlage.de

[3] MehrAlsTaxifahren.de | Interview with Alexandra Tobor. July 9, 2017. Retrieved July 16, 2017 .

[Quelle2-4] Twitter account @silenttiffy by Alexandra Tobor

[5] There are four poles sitting in the car. In: buchreport.de. Retrieved March 25, 2018 .

[6] WR152 The New Wrintness: The Polish Woman's Inner Beard | WRINT. In: wrint.de. Retrieved June 24, 2013 .

[7] The secret profession of podcaster. In: alexandratobor.de. Archived from the original on August 12, 2015 ; Retrieved October 4, 2013 .

[8] Anecdotally Evident - Culture and Science through the Prism of Chatting. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .