Michaela Maria Müller

Michaela Maria Müller (* 1974 in Dachau ) is a German author and journalist . She lives in Berlin and writes mainly on the topics of migration in Africa and Europe as well as refugee policy.

Life

Michaela Maria Müller grew up on a farm near Dachau. After training as a publishing clerk and employed as a bookseller in Munich and New York, she studied history and political science at the Humboldt University in Berlin . She graduated with a historical study of cricket in England and India. She works as a freelance journalist and reporter for the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , Süddeutsche Zeitung , Zeit Online and Qantara, among others , and runs the blog Refugees in Europe .

In 2015 her essayistic story Before Lampedusa was published. A journey that is about her encounter with the place she visited after the boat accident in 2013 and the fate of the refugees from Eritrea and Somalia on the Italian island, who are deported to Tripoli and from there to the Sahara without a procedure . Elke Heinemann described the book in the FAZ as a “postmodern mixture of documentary novel and literary report”. In her book At Sea. The story of Ayan and Samir from 2016, which again combines reportage with fiction, tells Müller about the life of a young couple who flee from Somalia , which was destroyed by civil war , and are left to their fate in a ramshackle boat on the Mediterranean Sea. Christian Bommarius rated the book as "one of the most important new publications of this year".

In the essay Durchs Moor, durch Dachau , she deals with her origins and goes on a search for traces of the National Socialist past.

Müller has been a member of the PEN Center Germany since 2017 .

Book publications

• Cricket like Beckham. Cricket in Great Britain and India since the 18th century. LIT Verlag , Münster 2006, ISBN 978-3-8258-9810-6
• Before Lampedusa. A travel. Frohmann Verlag , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-944195-65-0 (epub)
• At sea. The story of Ayan and Samir. Frohmann Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-944195-82-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michaela Maria Müller in the catalog of the German National Library
• Review of Auf See in the Rheinische Post
• vitzliputzli , personal website
• Refugees in Europe . Michaela Maria Müller's blog on Tumblr
• Michaela Maria Müller: The Woman of the Century , SZ-Magazin , issue 10/2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About: Michaela Maria Müller, FAZ Blogs
2. ↑ Tom Bresemann: In conversation with Michaela Maria Müller . ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Lettré diary , April 20, 2015 
3. ↑ Elke Heinemann: Views from the inside of our asylum system. Via Tripoli to the Sahara , FAZ, June 5, 2015
4. ^ Christian Bommarius: Review of "Auf See" Two Tales of Downfall , Berliner Zeitung, June 25, 2016
5. ↑ Michaela Maria Müller - Mercury. Retrieved on May 29, 2018 (German). 
6. ^ Members . In: PEN Center Germany . ( pen-deutschland.de [accessed on May 29, 2017]).