Marcia Zuckermann

Marcia Zuckermann (born May 4, 1947 in Berlin ) is a German editor and writer.

Zuckermann grew up in East Berlin and fled to West Berlin with his parents in 1958 . After finishing school, she spent her "apprenticeship and traveling years" in London , Paris , Barcelona and New York . After numerous other jobs, she works as a freelance journalist for print, radio and television. From 1993 she lived in Spain for seven years and worked as a travel journalist for a German-Spanish publishing group focusing on Spain as a travel destination . Since 2001 she has lived in Berlin again and works as a freelance writer.

The novel The United Paradise. News from the West-Eastern Divan tells two bizarre, tricky East-Western love stories in Berlin at the time of the fall of the century and thus presents a picture of this era. It's not just about "Ossis and Wessis, united in relationship boxes", but also about association crime, the Stasi, old and new Russian scene, marginalized existence, the down-to-earth Berlin "Milljöh" and the swan song for the former city of West Berlin.

Her second novel "Mischpoke!" based on allegedly authentic stories from her family, tells over a hundred years of German history from the perspective of the opposition, from the imperial era to the GDR, drawing on family legends up to four centuries old. The frame story is located in the present and provides information about the constitution of those who were born after the Shoah.

Works

• The united paradise - messages from the east-west Divan , dtv, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-423-24186-1
• Dressed to Chill in Ulrike Ostermeyer (Hrsg.), Sophie Zeitz (Hrsg.): West Östliche Diven , dtv, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-423-24226-4
• Mixed poke! A family novel Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt 2016, 448 S, ISBN 978-3-62700229-9