Linus Giese

Linus Giese (* 1986 in Bremen ) is a German bookseller , author , book blogger and activist .

Life

Giese studied German in Bayreuth and Dresden , after which he completed an internship in a media company. He has been running the book blog Buzzaldrins Blog since 2011 . Giese started working as a bookseller in June 2017, and has been in Berlin since November 2017 . In the same year he came out as a trans man. Since then, Giese has been documenting his coming out and his life as a trans man via Twitter and Instagram , where several thousand people follow him.

Because of numerous hateful messages and threats after his coming out, Giese was forced to quit his previous job because the address had been distributed on the Internet against his will. Today he lives and works in Berlin.

Create

Giese's book blog Buzzaldrins blog was before his coming out in the evening news and radio reports mention. There he primarily reviews sophisticated contemporary literature and is present at various book fairs.

In addition, Giese wrote several articles for national newspapers in which he deals with trans rights, gender roles and trans hostility. As an expert, he has been a guest on podcasts or talk shows several times. a. at WDR with Georgine Kellermann or at Deutschlandfunk Nova.

In August 2020 his autobiographical novel Ich bin Linus was published by Rowohlt Verlag , in which he tells of his life as a trans man.

Works

Novels

I'm Linus, Rowohlt Verlag, 2020, ISBN 978-3-499-00312-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Matthias Kreienbrink: These little people. In: ZEIT Online. March 15, 2018, accessed August 20, 2020 .
↑ Linus Giese: My new life as Linus. In: Tagesspiegel. December 20, 2017, accessed August 20, 2020 .
↑ Matthias Kreienbrink: Transgender on online hatred: "The target is my life". In: SPIEGEL. April 8, 2018, accessed August 20, 2020 .
↑ Cornelia Geißler: Linus Giese: "I was afraid that my name would be taken again". August 17, 2020, accessed on August 20, 2020 (German).
^ Author profile of Linus Giese. In: Rowohlt Verlag. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .
↑ Matthias Schwarzer: WDR studio manager as a transgender woman: Georgine Kellermann talks about her coming out. January 17, 2020, accessed August 20, 2020 .
↑ Shanli Anwar (moderation): "Trans people have to tell their own stories!" Deutschlandfunk Nova, February 22, 2019, accessed on August 20, 2020 .
↑ Nora Noll: autobiography by Linus Giese: Euphoric masculinity. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. August 19, 2020, accessed August 20, 2020 .

personal data
SURNAME	Giese, Linus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German bookseller, author, book blogger and activist
DATE OF BIRTH	1986
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bremen

[1] Matthias Kreienbrink: These little people. In: ZEIT Online. March 15, 2018, accessed August 20, 2020 .

[2] Linus Giese: My new life as Linus. In: Tagesspiegel. December 20, 2017, accessed August 20, 2020 .

[3] Matthias Kreienbrink: Transgender on online hatred: "The target is my life". In: SPIEGEL. April 8, 2018, accessed August 20, 2020 .

[4] Cornelia Geißler: Linus Giese: "I was afraid that my name would be taken again". August 17, 2020, accessed on August 20, 2020 (German).

[5] Author profile of Linus Giese. In: Rowohlt Verlag. Retrieved August 20, 2020 .

[6] Matthias Schwarzer: WDR studio manager as a transgender woman: Georgine Kellermann talks about her coming out. January 17, 2020, accessed August 20, 2020 .

[7] Shanli Anwar (moderation): "Trans people have to tell their own stories!" Deutschlandfunk Nova, February 22, 2019, accessed on August 20, 2020 .

[8] Nora Noll: autobiography by Linus Giese: Euphoric masculinity. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. August 19, 2020, accessed August 20, 2020 .